A few days ago, a friend of mine “Amr” and I were having a conversation about the role of the elders in our society... are they still given the kind of value and respect that is naturally supposed to be given to them ? We got to conclude that they have moved far away and apart from the role they are to be... an example is how they try to control instead of guide and advice... I suppose only a few of them still carry their role of guidance effectively...
Later on that day... on my way to work, I was talking to a college mate in the bus about why was it really the fourth finger where people have their rings placed? Especially for engagement and marriage... he said it was all a tradition and not really any kind of religious practice, it’s just more of a social one, I later asked him, why don't you think of getting engaged on the near term? He got to say that he got much of relationships in the past that kept him far from it... In fact, him saying: " Whenever I had a relationship, my mum would ask me: do you want me to ask the girl for engagement?
Actually, I was amazed about how the elder ones have gone to become just as decorates instead of real figures in some parts of the society, as he “My College mate " concluded it all , his mum role in fact was only to do official roles in things like marriage .. I wonder why most of our young ones now no longer put marriage as something to think of seriously...!
So, what's really the matter with our elder ones? Are they changing to fit in a time which is not theirs? Or are they fading away to the shade to allow the young generation to take place? The answers are yet to be found...
