People say that when you get old, you become like a child again.
But my great-uncle felt some elders were worse off than children.
Children in kindergarten still have parents to pick them up and drop them off.
Yet, he had lived in the nursing home for an entire year without a single visit from anyone.
Great-uncle sighed, "Today marks the 389th day."
389 days?
What did that mean?
Xue Jinghao was puzzled, "Great-uncle, what about 389 days?"
Great-uncle turned to Xue Jinghao, "I've not been outside for 389 days."
Xue Jinghao frowned slightly, "Your, your children, what about them?"
If his memory served him right, his great-uncle had both a son and a daughter.
How could it be that he hadn't stepped outside in so many days?
"Busy," great-uncle continued with a laugh, "busy making money, and then they'll end up in a nursing home just like me someday."
This was the helplessness of a solitary elder.
Sometimes, he thought.
