When you have aged parents who are having serious health challenges it can be quite taxing on you as you try to navigate your own responsibilities of parenting, profession, partnership, other.

You sometimes feel you have to pick and choose to cope and sometimes you ask the question why me?

However, when you take this responsibility as a blessing and remember what your parents did for you when you were young, not only does your perspective change but you find great joy and inner peace.

The reality is one day you will be old and the treatment you will get from your children is the treatment you are giving your elderly parents. Children don’t do what they are told, they do what they see.

So, when put to a challenge of looking after your aged parents instead of saying Why me? Say, Why not me?