Suffering of Old age and Sickness

Suffering of old age:

The rosy color of youth and the grace and beauty of fresh young bodies are blighted and withered by the dreadful scourge of age. The time will eventually come when you will be afflicted with the misery of being dependent on others, an object of contempt and ridicule, without even the strength to attend to the needs of nature. You will not be able to shift for yourself and must stumble along leaning on a stick. Whenever you move just to get up or sit down or walk from one place to another, your joints will be wrenched and you will fall. Your faculties will be impaired; your sight and hearing will fail, and your tongue will become thick and inarticulate. The beauty of youth such as soft skin all changes and gradually becomes more think, inflexible and becomes a bundle of wrinkles the hair on the head also transforms it color to white and the pleasures youth and enjoyments of the senses will no longer seem pleasant. Even someone who is weaker than oneself can harm you without your ability to protect yourself or fight back. All the actions and world are forgotten right after they are done or said. Your breath also becomes suffocating and you cannot hear and express clearly. You will fail to recognize other people and even yourself. So compounded element becoming too old and nearing death is imminent. All these are sufferings experienced by a person in his old age.

Suffering of sickness;

For beings possessed of bodies composed of the four elements, perfect health is compared to limpid pool in which the humors of wind, bile, and phlegm are in perfect balance. Uneven balance of the four elements results in sickness such as blood pressure, kidney problems and tuberculosis, etc. even though you may have a stout body and robust body,k when you ar seized by sickness, you become as feeble as a little bird and bedridden. At times, you undergo pain so intense that you can hardly answer what is asked you. One top of this, not only are you loaded with pain miseries, but so are your relatives and friends fed-up with your prolonged sickness and cannot even sleep. Finally, many factors, such karmic forces, or harms caused by natural or unnatural disasters, make you get trouble in mind and terrified thinking of death. This is the crucial period when you experience appearance of confusion and disillusionment.