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HOW CAN THE OLD AGE
BE MADE HAPPY
The title smacks of skepticism if old age could be made happy. Prima-facilely it sounds pessimistic. That old age is condemned to be decrepit one with despair writ large on one's destiny, accompanied as it were with failing health, vision, diseases, ill served by family and little cared by others, hoping against hope to be happy."
Is this a real picture of our aged folks in the modern world ? Should we be clouded in our thinking to look old age with despondency? The title unfairly assumes so and yet looks for light. This is the purpose of this article. In the encircling gloom there are not only rays but effulgence of hope, I believe to make old ones happy. I find them as follows.
I like to see the positive and the bright side of the picture also. God has been gracious on one to bestow him such long life. Thirty years ago beyond sixty were rare. With increasing longevity due to better health - services and knowledge, the number. beyond sixty years of age has almost doubled if not trebled of earlier ones, mentioned above.
