thats the life we asked for!!!!!!!!!!!!

God created the donkey
and said to him.
"You will be a donkey. You will work un-tiringly from sunrise to sunset
carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass,
you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years."
The donkey answered:
"I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is much. Give me only 20 years"
God granted his wish.
God created the dog and said to him:
"You will guard the house of man. You will be his best Friend.
You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 30 years.
You will be a dog. "
The dog answered:
"Sir, to live 30 years is too much,give me only 15 years.
" God granted his wish.
God created the monkey and said to him:
"You will be a monkey. You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks.
You will be amusing and you will live
20 years. "
The monkey answered:
"To live 20 years is too much, give me only 10 years."
God granted his wish.
Finally God created man ... and said to him:
"You will be man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth.
You will use your intelligence to become master over all the animals.
You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years."
Man responded:
"Sir, I will be a man but to live only
20 years is very little,
give me the 30 years that the donkey refused,
the 15 years that the dog did not want and
the 10 years the monkey refused.
" God granted man's wish
And since then, man lives
20 years as a man ,
marries and spends
30 years like a donkey,
working and carrying all the burdens on his back.
Then when his children are grown,
he lives 15 years like a dog taking care of the house
and eating whatever is given to him,
so that when he is old,
he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey,
going from house to house and from one son or
daughter to another doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.
That's Life.
Is'nt it ??????????

ha-ha-ha !
Is that why the Wise Ones say: Be Careful What you wish for, it may come true !

Vidyasarada

Dear sunkan,
First, this seems like ajoke. But as we read on, it burdens the heart. It is true that in old age some parents are unlucky-they are shuttled from one child to another. I read a story in Kalki Deepavali malar about inmates of an old age home in Malaysia. The dialogue which I liked in that- 'a father (mother) raises many children but all those children could not take care of him/her together.'
How true these words are!

Dear Sunkan

Though it is a joke it is very true of our life especially with regards to old people now-a-days who have to shuttle between their sons' houses or else into oldage homes.

Still heartening is that some old couple they have to live separately i.e childern will share them on a rotation basis. Really sad no? living separately at the end of their lives.

Varudhini