Greed II

Hello you all.

As you've realized, the past few weeks I've just been posting one-sentence-posts.
It's not only because I was too lazy to write something; it was also to show how I feel about all the "things" short and to the point.

Let's take the "Greed" post as an example.
We shouldn't live life only for the sake of living. You can interpret anything into it to make it sound right to you (or maybe its just totally wrong to some no matter how you bend and break the sentence).
In my case it's my current job.
As I'd already mentioned I started a social year and I'm still doing it. It's already been over two months and sometime that idea just hit me.

There are so many people there who've hit the prime of their time.
The only thing they really do is live.

Some sit there, all day long. Staring at nothing.
I come and talk to them, ask them, if they'd like to listen to some music on the radio.
They accept, they don't. I go, they stare into nothingness again.

Some lie there, all day long. Lying into oblivion.
They can't talk, they can't scream, you don't know what they want.
They choke on their food, they don't swallow their water and eventually they fade away.

Some walk and walk, from place to place.
They watch TV, they eat and drink, they play a board game (by themselves) over and over again.
They go to sleep and the day repeats.

In the first cases I do wonder, if I would ever want to live the end of my life like that.
Sure, families would want us to live but it's not like that in everyone's case.
Why do we live, if we have no more purpose in life?

But that - of course - not only applies to the elderly, if you're thinking about it.
There are people like me who still wonder about their purpose in life.
They still have the means to do what they might eventually want to do though.
(The physical and emotional capability.)

But the elderly - even if they do come up with something they really want, can't.
It's not something they can achieve on their own, with only their will.
People have to care for them, to carry, to feed, to give and think about them.
They burden others.
But maybe those "others" want to be burdened?
Who knows? Who cares? The elderly will still live.

No matter how much they don't like it. No matter, if they can't communicate with us.
No matter what they think about it.