Old and helpless

Among the things that i fear the most, is, quite close to the top of the list, to be old and alone.

I have witnessed such a pitiful circumstance more than once, and i have felt deeply the pain and loneliness that such state of being must inflict.

I cant bring miself to think of helplesness as something acceptable in the life of a human being. No circumstance or condition allows me to accept it or feel that its natural.

and i find myself experiencing something alike the grief for a recently dead familiar every time i face another being in this condition.

I am usually able to control my feelings towards all things unpleasant. But the fact i cant think of a possible solution and i cant either stop caring, makes this a subject that always sends me to a gloomy mindset.