Opinion / National
When loneliness is great company
10 Apr 2019 at 19:30hrs | Views
Gogo Chihera and 'Sekuru' Dlodlo stay in deferent provinces of Zimbabwe yet they have one thing in common, both their spouses are late hence lead lonely lives. Their brood has come of age and have gone their ways, some in the diaspora and others taken by time.
There are many old people who literally live in 'solitary confinement', plenty relatives but lonely lives.
The few distant nephews and equally elderly peers live a measurable distance from the tilted mud huts they call home. Why do we isolate our aged relatives? Is it not a blessing to have such fountains of wisdom among us?
Some children tend to actually forget that they have parents and grandparents.
Most elderly retirees find themselves in a catch-22 situation, getting a too little monthly NSSA pension payout and a help-yourselves kinsmen and kinswomen. May be its time people of my ethnic persuasion start thinking of placing their elderly into 'care homes'.
Old Dlodlo's attire tells a tale of deprivation, the tattered hand-me-down blazer from a former high school student nephew now makes him look like a scarecrow.
Gogo Chihera in her now colorless and shredded wrap-over appears like an apparition from the other side of life. Why are we abandoning our kith, are we not beckoning bad omens upon the land by choosing such a trajectory?
Let's look after our aged and may the Hon. minister Dr. Sekai Nzenza do something for the former workers.
Thomas Murisa. Chinehasha.
There are many old people who literally live in 'solitary confinement', plenty relatives but lonely lives.
The few distant nephews and equally elderly peers live a measurable distance from the tilted mud huts they call home. Why do we isolate our aged relatives? Is it not a blessing to have such fountains of wisdom among us?
Some children tend to actually forget that they have parents and grandparents.
Most elderly retirees find themselves in a catch-22 situation, getting a too little monthly NSSA pension payout and a help-yourselves kinsmen and kinswomen. May be its time people of my ethnic persuasion start thinking of placing their elderly into 'care homes'.
Old Dlodlo's attire tells a tale of deprivation, the tattered hand-me-down blazer from a former high school student nephew now makes him look like a scarecrow.
Gogo Chihera in her now colorless and shredded wrap-over appears like an apparition from the other side of life. Why are we abandoning our kith, are we not beckoning bad omens upon the land by choosing such a trajectory?
Let's look after our aged and may the Hon. minister Dr. Sekai Nzenza do something for the former workers.
Thomas Murisa. Chinehasha.
Source - Thomas Murisa
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