Interview

I didn't get to get an interview with my grandma due to health issues but I interviewed my father and mother who thought as an elderly person would in their eyes...

Questions:
1. What do you want to accomplish before you die?
My dad: "I would like to see my children and their future children be successful people in life. I want to make sure that they never need to depend on anyone but themselves. Its not really what I want to accomplish its what I want to see happen. I want to see the ones I care about succeed in life before anything else."

My mom: "I just want to live a peaceful life without any hatred and violence. Although I never finished my education which would have took me farther in any profession I wanted, I feel like I have accomplished a lot. I have two great kids, a home, a job, and I'm living, that's all I can ask for."

2. Have you done everything you wanted in life?
No, I haven't but I can still say I am proud of what I have achieved in life. I am happy with my life so far, I can't complain."

3. If you were to die right now, can you say you have lived a good life?
Yes, I enjoyed my childhood and now all I want to do is watch my children do the same.

As we learned in class today, "in our culture, people treat old people as relics of the past" this is so true. Every time we see or look at the elderly we think of their past never their future. We ask them questions in the past tense. We never really think about them in a positive way and some might feel that there is no reason for "old people" to live, I mean all we see is that they can't walk, they can't take care of themselves...Sometimes I feel that when you get old you really start to live you're wiser and you know your right from wrong, you catch yourself looking at the young generation and watch as they make the same mistakes you made when you were younger. Personally, we should take a deeper look into how we view things in life other than to judge people directly.