Your Two Eyes

This post is dedicated to all neglected parents in the world, and was also written in loving memory of my own father and grandparents, who made me who I am today. I LOVE YOU WHEREVER YOU MAY BE and if you were alive today you know I will never leave your side until I die. Never.

Below are 2 pics of a real Mother and a Father who now live in Homes for the Aged (put there by their own children who can't lookafter them). These pics were taken from 2 different personal Web albums of 2 great people who made visits to these Homes as part of a charity mission and took these pics. My heartfelt gratitude and love to them!

Somebody's father (and grandfather) at a Home for the Elderly in Sri Lanka. He's having his breakfast, all alone...


Somebody's mother (and grandmother) who lives in a Home for the Elderly in India . She has Asthma that was triggered by witnessing one of her housemates die...










I couldn't stop shedding tears as I saw the faces of this mother and father. The loneliness in their eyes..the silent tears of their souls...the sadness in their stare...the memories written all over their face. Who's father is that? Who's mother is this? Where are their children? Did they have the heart to 'dump' them in Aged care? With how much love would they have brought up their kids? Is this the result of that love? No matter how good/bad your parents/grandparents may be, please don't do THIS to them. They deserve love and care from you, just like how they gave it to you when you were growing up. It's your turn to help them out, in their most difficult years. Everyone wants to be loved, nobody wants to be lonely and left in an Aged home with strangers, to die some day. Will you do this to your parents? Picture yourelves like this some day (cos we all get old some day)...how would you feel to be abandoned like this? Parents are not clothes or shoes that you throw away when they get old and are of no use any longer...they are humans that helped you stand on your own feet...they are the two eyes that made you see. Respect, protect and love them always. And I also know of someone who hit her mother in law...it's so very sad! I have no words to describe the grief I feel when I see neglected parents. I hope this song will tell you how I feel...


This song is one of my fav Sinhalese songs by the great SL singer Late H.R.Jothipala. It's a touching song about mothers (can be applied to fathers too). This video shows the 2007 Sri Lankan Idol winner Pradeep Rangana singing it. He did the song great justice and he sang this for his own mother who's in the audience too. Meaning is as follows (please bear with my translation as it's very difficult to convert the true meaning of a Sinhalese song into English):


Mae nonimena divi gamane...nivane maga penena thura..
In this endless journey of life, until I gain enlightenment
Ammae obe putheku wela...ennam maa sasara pura..
I wanna be born as your son, in this cycle of birth and death

Piyathuma nethi dha indhala...giye ne maa thani karala..
Eversince I lost my father, you never left my side
Kusa gini mata noma dheela...dhuka vedhanawa nivala...
You didn't leave me hungry, you were bearing all the pain
Ammae oba Budhu wewa...mavu guna gee gayanemi ma
Mother, may you become a Buddha...your great qualities I sing of

Mae nonimena divi gamane... ... ...
In this endless journey of life... ... ...

Petali lo mayaven...galawa maa awamanen...
When I was lost in an illusion, you saved me from falling
Nuwanesa mage pahadhaala...dhiyunuwe maga penwaala...
You taught me to think, and showed me the right path
Lebu ae aashirvahde...dhivi maawata eliya vune
I received your blessings, and my life path has been brightened

Mae nonimena divi gamane... ... ...
In this endless journey of life... ... ...


Current Music: Mae Nonimena Divi Gamane by Pradeep Rangana