Old Age is Giving You a Message

An elderly man had enjoyed good health, but after he turned 75, he fell sick. This sickness was an announcement about his impending death. But that is not how he took it. He regarded it simply as an issue that called for medical treatment. And so, he consulted various doctors and visited different hospitals, spending a lot of money in the hope of a cure. When he had spent all his money for this purpose, he took a loan and started some expensive treatment. Despite this, he couldn’t regain his health. He remained sick for some years and then died.

This isn’t just this man’s story. In fact, it is the story of a great many people.

Old age is like a news-announcement. It announces to us that the time of our death has come near. When elderly people fall sick or their organs begin to fail, this is further reminder that their death is just around the corner. Such things happen so that if people are heedless of death they can wake up to its reality and make preparations for it and for the life in the Hereafter.

But very few people take lessons from these events. Old age and accompanying infirmities loudly announce to them their impending death. But ignoring this message that these events are intended to convey, they consider them only as something that requires medical treatment. They make the rounds of doctors and hospitals and then finally die, in utter helplessness. What they obtain isn’t cure and good health but, rather, frustration and death.