One wish

I don’t want to reach old age and become a weight others are forced to carry.

I don’t want my children to feel responsible for me out of obligation, nor do I want my grandchildren to see me as someone they quietly endure.

That’s why, while I still have strength and clarity, I’m learning to take care of myself — to lean on others only when there is truly no other choice.

I refuse to enter later life carrying resentment, disappointment, or demands disguised as affection.

I want to grow old with dignity: with peace in my chest, with a conscience free of heaviness, and with the comfort of knowing that I lived according to what I believed was right.

And when my hands shake and my steps slow, I hope that being around me feels like a choice — not a duty.

If someone helps me then, I want it to be because they care, not because they feel they must.

So I prepare now… because I don’t want to be a burden. I want to be a presence that brings calm, and a memory that softens hearts even long after I’m gone.”

Prepare for your future by doing what you can to help yourself later, get up, get out, move around, walk if you can, get involved with others, live while we’re living. We only go around once grab hold of your gusto