How Best Do I Explain This To Grandpa

Grandpa and Great-Grandma seek to know what the internet looks like since it is a Worldwide network.

When I reflect on the big moments of togetherness, memories get bigger day by day. As for that matter, there are some from my childhood. They are worth sharing.

Recently, I went to visit my Aunt at her workplace. She is a police officer in charge of children’s rights.

As I reached her office, there was nobody there so, I decided to sit and wait for her return which I wasn’t even sure of. Shortly, she came in.

On seeing me, she shouted. Hey! Who allowed you into my office? As a police officer, threatened me to the point I felt out of place. I didn’t know she was kidding because there was no sign she didn’t mean it. She had to calm me down and then went to her home together. Before we reached home, she told me my Grandee would be celebrating his birthday the next day.

I smirked at her by nodding my head and saying “Oh! That’s cool.” I was also supposed to celebrate my birth on the same day. But I felt not to inform her. As I turned 27, my maternal Grandfather turned 80.

When hours passed, we both celebrated our life journeys together. There were better moments right there. And on the 27th of December last year, my Mom’s maternal grandmother turned 105 but I was surprised she can still see.

Many old people when they approach that age begin to think of their life-to-death journey.

So, they begin to put in place their will declaring ownership of assets and stating who their hairs will be. It is a usual thing in almost every society.

But my parents do have not such thoughts in their minds. They are very peaceful. No fears of death shake them.

They are thankful to God for their lives and feel they have everything. The only thing that bothers them, especially Grandpa is illiteracy. He wished to have gone to school had it not been for the issue of insurgency.

But he still hopes for a lifelong journey under President Musevenis’s government so that he can learn so many new things.

Blessings are with the elderly. The older they grow, the more blessings they can shower on the young generation. Respect is all they need.

I wish to grow old but not to the extent of superannuation. It is sucking because at some point his knees may befall and that results in suffering.

I am blessed to have three living grandparents. One is paternal and two are maternal.

On my mother’s side, there is an old woman who is above both Grandpa and Grandma.

She is my Mum’s GrGrandmother'sears. When I was growing up, I had no idea who she was.

I never imagined a person of that age exists. But she and my Grandees have the sweetest love that no one else can offer to me.

My Grandpa is a great historian. He used to tell us stories about places and countries like England, Italy, Britain, and Iraq.

I remember liking Germany I think it was just the name. That name is translated in my mother tongue as “Girimani” and in Britain as “Bulaya.” I liked the name Bulaya too but I didn’t know what it meant because I was just a little boy.

It was a nice treat during those early times. Now I’m an adult, it’s my turn to treat them well. I have to do it better.

I spend more time with them when I’m off work for holidays.

Often they ask me funny questions that only geniuses can answer.

I challenge myself to be that genius grandson.

When older people begin to question the existence of networks, it means they are still eager to learn.

The dot com has gotten its impingement also around the elderly as it did with the younger generations.

With a multitude of internet users in society today, the internet wholesomely seems to be carrying the future of education.

Like Adult education, Elderly education could also be made possible through the web however, for the elderly, it could seem like flogging a dead horse.

So, how do you start? First of all, they will need to know some basics about the Internet and the use of gadgets.

Can you imagine I failed to explain even a basic idea about the internet to my Grandpa even though he was curious to know?

It’s because I did not have the right vocabulary to explain “internet” better like a genius Grandson.

How was I supposed to explain that?

I am obsessed with Grandpa’s inability to pronounce “www” in words. His intellectual understanding has gone low and can barely remember things.

I shared some lessons about the internet with Grandpa for three days and failed.

I then translated the word into the local language — “Elago Loka Akwap Kere.” (World Wide Web.)

After elaborating on its meaning, I wanted to walk away thinking that the task is done.

He asked me to sit down. I realized he was serious about learning the topic. He also asked me “why it is named

Internet and not Worldwide Web?” And again, “Is the internet evil?”

If it were you, how would you explain that?