When Goodbye Is Not Enough

If you want to know the truth, these last months that I was documenting my grandfather, I got afraid of getting old… From the thought that when we get old what is waiting for us? Loneliness? Pain of being old? Illnesses? Cancer? Alzheimer? He died in spite of not smoking or drinking any alcohol.

If you want to know the truth, these last months that I was documenting my grandfather, I got afraid of getting old… From the thought that when we get old what is waiting for us? Loneliness? Pain of being old? Illnesses? Cancer? Alzheimer?

He died in spite of not smoking or drinking any alcohol.

I don’t know it is from forgetting or not having more memories to tell that they tell one memory over and over again…. But every time they say it from different view… I only know that with all these changes you can’t not like grandfathers…

Grandfather was not so quiet, but when he went, a big home, didn’t have any purpose to live anymore.

The thing that was important for me in doing this project was the life of people when they are old.

Changes in societies and how we live and communications are connected. That we have changed but in this transition we have been unaware of many other things . We have forgotten that no matter how much our life style and connections change, some of our needs will be the same and for the same reasons we have forgotten how effective we can be in life of our elderlies and grandparents.

It has been from our ancient culture to live with our families and take care of elderlies but with moving to modernity and living in cities and with all the problems that people are facing in developing countries like Iran, we are getting far away from such a culture and past behaviors.

Statistics show that in the last decade approximately 6.4 million people in Iran and 600 million of people that live in the world are older than 60 years old and this number is going to grow up to 12 million people in Iran and more than 2 billion people around the world by 2050.

Actually getting old is a natural process in human’s life and being old is neither a pain nor a disease, actually it a part of life and it’s one of the experiences that all humans share.