Do we want to live lloonngg ??

From my childhood whenever i touched my elders' feet they used to bless me saying "jithe raho" :)

One simple sight made me think - how long do i want to live !!!

Me and my old college friends had a get-together at forum mall in bangalore. We were just having a good time doing window shopping,eating,teasing. After having enough of roaming we sat down outside the mall with a Baskin Robbins ice creams..... variety of people were around us and lots of people were passing in front of us, coming and going..we girls were sitting and commenting almost everyone over there.. everyone around us were happy,joyfull with friends and mates, talking, laughing....

Then suddenly we noticed something different, actually we noticed a man with some difference...an old man around the age of late 70's sitting all alone.. having a packet of horliks biscuits.. he doesn't seems to be happy, but he was not sad also.. his expressions were blank.. he was just sitting and watching the moving crowd..he was not poor.. he was well dressed and healthy.. but he had no one with him..he was all alone..for the 2hrs we sat there..he was all alone.... i felt that he just came there to see some people around him,to see some life around him..to make himself feel that he is also a part of this world..if they don't have time to notice him, atleast he can notice them.. i started thinking about my life,do i live this much long?will i be all alone like this at that age? i will also become an unnoticeable, invisible creature? No.... i don't want to live that long... oohh my elders.. please that some of those "jithe raho" blessings back....i don't want to be left alone.. actually i don't want do be unnoticed.. i believe being left alone is the most painful punishment in life and i don't want that punishment.. not for me nor for my parents..no.. never.. 

his loneliness, the blankness which he had in his face was torturing me. In this fast moving and busy life, when we are running to make our life settled we are forgetting those poor souls who helped us to make our first steps.. we are forgetting them who made us capable of running..we don't have time for them and we are least bothered about them..why? why is that they are left alone like this?

will u be happy to see your mom or dad sitting all alone in front of a mall and gazing at the world with blankness..are we so cruel that we select blankness for those people who brought only colors in our life..

to all those busy people.. " make some time for your loving old ones"