Nonna

This is not going to be something new I've got against Italy as maybe expected.

I've got only one grandmother by now. She is an loving, honest, generous and wise woman. But now she is in sorrow because life sucks. But it does not suck because of itself, since life is great, but because mankind is making it worse and worse.
She is 95 years old, she barely walks by herself, but she used to be very strong and healthy just a couple of years ago and now she is too proud, too afraid of realising that she's not strong anymore. Thus she doesn't want one of those caretakers that people may hire. She just wants my mom to be taking care of her.
This morning my mom found her sitting on a chair thinking in sorrow, in front of the switched off television, with a postcard in her hands. She had just received it from a relative of ours who's now on holiday in New York. They send postcards but they never pay a visit to an elder woman that they know is not well. Never. Most of them live nearby and have got plenty of time since they are retired. But they don't have time nor will to drive half an hour to visit her. Therefore they believe that sending a stupid postcard with “lots of love” makes it any better. As well as asking us how she is, when we happen to meet them at the countryhouse that they always have time to visit on Sundays to relax.
My dad told me that “it used to be better back in the days”. Nobody was left alone when become old or in pain.
There's a saying: life was better when it was worse. Probably false about welfare, it may be not about life.

Ti voglio bene Nonna. Ci vediamo domani.