Old Age Sucks

I hate how people you love have to grow old.

I've always been close to my Grandfather (I call him Papa), and he's one of the greatest blokes on the planet. Hard working, kind, always smiling, always interested in people, never angry.

But he's in his seventies, so age is beginning to take its toll on him. He has problems with his hearing, which can affect his balance, and yesterday he fell in the street and cracked his ribs, broke his nose and gave himself two massive black eyes.

It's horrible how there's nothing you can do to stop it happening. I've tried helping out to make his hearing situation better by getting him a portable loop system (wasn't really portable and didn't really work), and by getting him two Asus EeePCs with bespoke software on them that allows for IM over Wi-Fi. Those were designed to help by allowing someone to sit and type messages to him while a conversation was going on, to allow him to keep up. They worked perfectly but he didn't have the motivation to sit and use them or to ask people to type messages for him.

This is why I think old age sucks. You should be able to play football with your Grandad, or go snowboarding with him. You shouldn't have to watch him grow old and feeble, becoming more and more frustrated at what he can't do.

Good job my beliefs give me a hope for the future then.