Life is really difficult for some people
One of my neighbor is a 77 year old lady, she is a very hard working lady and what I like best about her is she is always smiling, laughing and also making others laugh. Financially she is not in a very good position or I can say not even stable. She is single, not married. What I feel sad about her is that at this age also she has to work to support herself. Since the time I know her, which is like 30 years, she has been working in a community center where they are into stitching and embroidery work. It's a community center so they do not even pay that great salary, so even after working all her life she has been hardly able to save up anything, because the salary is just enough to take care of her day to day life and that too in a very basic manner.
There are many such people in the world, living such lives, and I feel very bad for them that at this big a age they have to still think of their survival means. Ideally a person retires by 60 and then lives a comfortable life with the savings they have made over the years. But then people like her, who do not earn much and live by each day, what about them. Are they never suppose to rest in life. As of now she is still active, but as she gets older her body may not support her and then what. We do not have any government robust facilities for such people, except for a few like medical and that too at a basic level.
Every day morning I see her leaving her house at 9 for work and at 6 she returns back home, her work place thankfully is nearby at a distance of 10 minutes walk. It's nearby but still tedious, because our homes are on a hill and it's a tedious climb, especially for her age. And I always wonder that with life also how does she manage to always laugh and smile. That's the true spirit of life she holds, never complaining and always in a jovial mood. Some people who have everything in the world also do not have such an attitude that she has, and it just feels like having people like her around is a big lesson for everyone to how not succumb to the pressures of life.
With all of her hardships also she is a very dignified person. Sometimes we try to help her with cash and she refuses to accept saying she has enough what she needs and the day she will need she will ask from us, but not till then. The alternatively I give her some nice foods which she can enjoy and that she likes. I find her a very pure and divine soul. She must be having her karmic lessons to go through for sure in this life time, but the way she is going through is very important and I can say she is excelling in it. Sometimes I wonder what life will be for her when she gets very old and not in a position to work. I am sure God will take care of her.
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