Patience and tolerance has often been said to be a virtue.
Grown up can be  patient with kids but less tolerance with the elderly.

We give the best to our children yet we could not care less about the aged.
We put up with the nuisance and tantrums of a kid but not the grey and old.

The old is twice a kid. They need us as much as we need them.

The most precious relationship in this world is that of a parent and a child.
Value it to the end. All of us grow old someday
Now, it’s the time we reach out and hold their withered hands.
 The hands that once held us when we took our 1st step.

me@ Jan 2011