Personally, I think elders are entitled to more dignity and respect. We all deserve a medal. Why? Well, all of us seniors have survived longer than these kids aged forty or younger.

 We all got through tough times and survived. In the 30's, Depression didn't mean ' I feel miserable,please look after me.'

It meant the Economy is bad, you probably had no job or had fears of losing one. You had trouble getting enough food to go on the table.Some of us had to exist on bread,dripping,stewed tea leaves. The good thing is, we didn't have to worry about Losing weight or hiring dieticians.Anyone who survived this time deserves a medal.

 We had to survive long working hours and short shopping times.

We had to learn how to protect ourselves.Some of us  got beaten by bullies and  it hurt, but we learned to run or hide or fight back.

 When we were punished mostly we realized we had deserved it.

We won and we lost and  sometimes we learned from our mistakes and tried to do better next time. We didn't have to blame someone else.

 And we knew that we had to work hard and look after our kids and we did not usually expect  repayment apart from the joy of raising them and seeing them do well.

 Aren't these the attributes of heroes? Too right.

 So we deserve recognition. We deserve to be able to forget that we forget,sometimes.

 We deserve to be able to ignore the fact we can't race across pedestrian crossings.

  We deserve a medal for all we have done.Making it to our Age is an achievement,an amazing achievement.

We all deserve a medal! Don't you agree?