There are a lot of people our age who are either scared of the future or do not even like to think about it.

It's rough because when we were young, our elders always seemed to have this brilliant advice about how to handle things but now, that just doesn't happen.

Our support system does shrink as we age. When we were kids, it was hard to count how many people were in our lives but that dwindles.

We get to a point where we think, "Well NOW what?"
Marriage, raising kids, some lucrative career, all that is either over or never happened in the first place. It's by our late 40's, there's just not much else to look forward to. We know better than to dream.

Some older people have a big family still, consisting of younger folks mostly, but what if someone just doesn't have that?

I know none of this helps, just my thoughts.

Maybe ask your parents how to handle the situation, like when they are gone.

Your mum or dad isn't going to die anytime soon. Just focus on the time you have together with them now and continue to carry it on with other people when they pass. That's probably what they want most from you is to know when they do pass away you'll have the ability to keep living your life the best way that you can.

Death is just another path we all must take