Growing old

Does it ever worry you to see ur own parents grow old? Since the time when my dad was a towering giant to me, he always represented strength to me, he was someone always there, sometimes he's unreasonable, sometimes he gets on my nerves, sometimes he's plain wrong, but no matter how many times we quarrel, he never gives up, like some epitome of "love never fails".

i remembered when i first realised he had white hair, or started balding, his signs of weaknesses contradict my concept of his strength in a way my brain finds it hard, either to comprehen or to accept. My mom gets these coughs that can go on for months, i worry abt her constitution, when she comes home from work with aching bones, i wish she would stop working, but dun have a stable job myself now.

recently i have a fren whose father is sick, such that he actually ran away from hosp and they were so worried cos he's not stable and can't take care of himself. I can't imagine myself like that, being the sole responsible adult in my family. Mainly i just want my parents to be alive and healthy for the next 50 yrs at least, when it comes to them i'm not the least logical.