Remember the Tataguni estate in Bangalore where Devika Rani with her Russian artist husband spent their last years. They had eager caretakers - a couple who just came into their lives and had managed to sell chunks of precious land on the fringes of the large estate, years later by some fraudulant means.
The care-givers are very choosy, it would appear! They like to pick only the very rich or the famous for bestowing their attention upon. First they give care for a salary payment and then the servant gains absolute control over the master!!
Rich or poor, all humans need some kind of care and attention, especially when they are aging and sick. Most often many elderls are neglected by their own kith and kin. Outsiders step in and keep the insiders out after sometime. Then it becomes too late to save the elders in their family alongwith the family wealth.
Such is the human psyche. The rich attract the greedy. The greedy never latch upon their own family elders, should these elders be poor.
If we have something then people latch on to us, otherwise we can lead a fairly peaceful life without having somebody breathe down our neck to be at our beck and call. But all this only until one is healthy and moves about on his or her own.
May God give us good health and may we have the strength to be active until our very last breath.
Mahalakshmi.
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