Tree plantation during important occasions is very common in any institution. One such event was organized in the school were my wife teaches. Today a couple of years later the trees had become tall and quite pleasing to the eye. They lent a serenity to the landscape and brought cheer and joy to the beholder. However recently the trees had to be uprooted and retransplanted as part of expansion and construction of playgrounds for the children. They were moved very carefully to pits dug elsewhere and afforded equal care by the people at the school. However even though the trees got the same care and watering daily as was being done before, their appearance did not remain the same. They appeared broken and scraggly and seemed as if had lost the will to remain.
While my wife was narrating this to me one morning, I was left wondering if this was not the same with the now familiar attempts in society at large to put the old and infirm in various old age homes under one pretext or other. Like the trees in question they too would appear withered and forlorn, removed from the care of their near anf dear ones. Little do we realide the importance of having ones near and dear ones around during ones twilight years, that though like the trees may regain some of the old ardour, will never be their usual self again. A food for thought isn’t it?
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