Living on borrowed years?
published: Wednesday | May 21, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
ON FREQUENT occasions, I have heard young people telling old people, "you're living on borrowed years".
My editor, apart from being a container of wide experiences, old age is also a certificate showing obedience to one of the ten commandments - "honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land." By that commandment of God is it not feisty, rude, crude and impertinent of young people addressing old people and saying 'you're' living on borrowed years?
Mind you, I appreciate the fact that youthfulness has its fling and its charm, but irrespective of these inviting attributes, youth should not be uncharitable to old age.
