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Currently more and more people respect elders and become convinced that older people should live with their families, which is in contrast to the view that older people should live at a nursing home. What is your opinion?? It is absolutely a good phenomenon that more and more people show concern and care for the elderly and willing to live with the elderly people instead of simply dumping them in a nursing home. This is a good sign and merits to be highly commended. As we all know, elderly people are not born elderly. Like us minors and adults, they used to be very young and energetic. In this respect, they are no difference from us. The only difference between us is that they have arrived at a stage which we will all arrive at later on ourselves. They have arrived at their destination of life journey whereas we are just starting or traveling half way. If there is a difference, the difference lies in the fact that they have a glory left behind and we young people have a magnificent future before us. Therefore, there is no reason why we should have the slightest intention to discard them. On the contrary, we should give them our due respect and show more concern. The life of the elderly is by no means even and straight. The way they suffer is beyond our imagination. To survive in the otherwise adverse situation, they have to be tough. In this respect, they are more capable and hardworking than most of us in present day society marked by advanced science and technology. Modern people do not work as hard as their predecessors. Certainly the work I do cannot be compatible with that of my father who would work in the fields either with a hoe or with the aid of a buffalo to till the land for farming. Now with the aid of tractors, people no longer have to work in the fields from early in the morning till late in the evening. A job that was done by dozens of people in a day now can be finished within a matter of an hour. Let alone the care and concern they showed us when