While walking along a boardwalk in this quiet little town where a great deal of elderly people resided, this couple overheard a journalist interviewing a retired banker, asking him about what and why today’s conditions are the way they are.
The retired banker responded:
In times past, many of the elderly people you see here and all over the country prepared themselves for times like this. In banking, for example, vaults were used for storing money, which you could access when you needed the money.
But today, the elderly are treated so disrespectfully, as if they have no importance or value, abandoned to sometimes well-kept nursing homes that really compare to being in jail.
As a result, you now have so many vaults but so little treasure.
Note: This story was inspired by two lovely elderly ladies I came across while assisting people in a shelter in Baton Rouge, La., who went there because of Hurricane Katrina. God Bless the both of you and thanks for giving me a boot that strengthened my spirit.
Photo: Hans Vink
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