Old is not gold to young people

I HAVE often been praised for being a filial child to my late parents as I looked after them in my home when they became too frail to live on their own. That was in the early 2000s. My father passed away in 2016 and my mother in August this year.

But such praise actually made me feel uncomfortable, simply because my parents were not a burden, especially in the financial sense. My father had good savings, and as a retired police officer, he enjoyed a decent pension that was passed on to my mother after his demise.