By Jane Tanabata (Rich Book Columnist)
Have you ever thought about what you will be like when you grow old? What kind of life are you going to lead?
What is the concept of old age?
In Teen Talk, the boy spits out his grandma on stage, "Can't you let us save a little bit of heart?
After she retired, her grandmother took a job as a teacher at a training school.
It's minus 20 degrees in the morning in the northeast, but the 72-year-old grandma still goes to work every day, morning and night, and is very busy.
The family is worried about her health and wants her to live the life of an old man.
What is the life of a senior citizen? Grandma asks.
The boy replies: stay home with the baby and enjoy the comfort of life.
But the grandma, who was wearing sunglasses and a chic and sophisticated chibi-check coat offstage, didn't agree with that.
She said, "I'm with the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning every day, and grandma is not 72, I'm 27, young."
The elderly Jiang Shumei in her old age asked her daughter: what does it mean to live for yourself?
The daughter said, do what you want to do, live the life you want.
For her, standing on a three-foot podium is a career she loves and a life she chooses.
Do what you love, live the life you want to live, and keep running towards your dreams, and you will always be young.
Dreams, there is no such thing as a too-late start
In the recently broadcasted My True Friend, there was an episode where Deng Lun and baby, Zhu Yilong formed an alliance and prepared to start their entrepreneurial journey.
The trio meets a painter who stubbornly guards an old villa in order to keep the memories of his past love.
The old man in the play is full of gray hair, but his spirits are high and he sits there, confident and dominant.
If not, can you guess that he is 83 years old?
49 years old, penniless "north" to study mime.
At 50, he went to the gym to build muscle.
The young man at the gym was incredulous, and advised him, "At your age, you'd better go home and bring up your grandchildren.
He shook his head, and continued to work out for 2 hours every day.
After 3 years of this purgatory, his body is so strong that young people are drooling at the sight of him.
At the age of 65, he learned to ride a horse, at the age of 78, he rode a motorcycle, at the age of 79, he wore fancy pants, bare-chested on the runway, and at the age of 80, he was a DJ, played the disk, and played songs for himself.
His name is Wang Deshun, an older and more charming old man, known as walking hormones, the most handsome "old fresh meat".
At the age when we think it is time to retire, he keeps moving forward and creates one after another facts that make us shocked.
Tell us: Destiny never fails those who work hard for it and keep pursuing it.
Grandma Moses, the world's most popular genre painter, started painting at the age of 77 and held a solo exhibition at 80.
In the last 20 years of her life, thousands of days and nights, she never stopped rendering her dreams.
She said: Do what you love and God will be happy to open the door of success for you, even if you are now 80 years old.
Li Pan, the host of CCTV's "Reading", said:
At 60, she could read, and at 75, she could write stories, and in her 80s, she dreamed of becoming a painter by the time she was 90.
Her motto: Not afraid of starting late, just afraid of short life, do not be lazy!
For a person who has love in his heart, dreams, there is no such thing as a late start, and age, is never a problem.
No matter how old you are, you can do what you want to do and live the life you want to live.
Learning, life is an infinite variety of possibilities
Last year, due to the withdrawal of the toll station, 36-year-old sister to find the leadership crying:
"I'm 36 years old this year, my youth are given to the toll station, in addition to charging I do not know anything, but also can not learn anything, how to live after? How to live in the future?"
And on the contrary, another thing, Alibaba to 400,000 annual salary to recruit senior experience teacher, the requirements of the elderly over 60 years old, square dance KOL (opinion leader) priority.
This recruitment, received more than 3,000 resumes, and there were even people who applied bilingually.
The first batch of 10 elderly people who applied to participate in the offline communication, there are 83-year-old Tsinghua school grandmother, 62-year-old IT old man ......
IT moncler also brought a PowerPoint made by himself to introduce himself: Taobao 12 years of experience as a buyer, registered and operated WeChat public number, skilled in the operation of photoshop, office software.
The two things put together, on the one hand, the 36-year-old female conductor cried that she was too old to learn new things.
On the one hand, there are moncler jackets for men and women who approach their years with a positive mindset of self-learning and self-growth.
So, age is just an excuse to get comfortable, never a reason to not be able to learn.
This is a fast-moving era, it abandoned you when, even a hello will not play.
Everyone is trying their best to live, and those who can't accept new things are doomed to be eliminated.
I remember when my friend used his spare time to get an accounting license, and was laughed at by his colleagues: what is the use of learning it if you are an administrator?
But a while ago, the company laid off employees, only friends were retained, because the accounting department needs people, and she happens to have a license.
Don't look down on those irrelevant studies, many times, you can win the first opportunity in life, precisely those who are useless in the eyes of others, you may just use to pass the time of learning.
Penelope Fitzgerald said that everything you learn will come in handy at some point in your life.
As long as you are still learning, your life has infinite possibilities.
What we want to live as
There's an animated short film by teve Cutts called "In the Fall" that tells the story of a life countdown in 100 seconds.
A middle-aged man is watering flowers upstairs when he accidentally steps on a banana peel and falls down the stairs.
At this moment closest to death, he recalls his life.
Once he was also a passionate teenager, but then forced by the pressure of reality, the long rest of his life, are locked in a desk.
The body began to get fat, hair decreasing, smile turned bitter.
The only thing that remains the same is that no matter how much they hate it in their hearts, they are always afraid to leave their jobs, and they are disappointed, tired, and numb until they die.
Is this life really what he wants?
At the end of a lifetime of replay, he realizes that such a life was not what he wanted a long time ago.
Eventually, he let go, lit a cigarette, and smiled as he waited for death to come.
In fact, as early as in the fading passion, the dream of disillusionment at the moment, he has been dead, alive, just a busy body.
Just like the cartoon "Modern Primitive", the daughter said to her father: "You're not called 'alive', can only say 'not dead'. "
The real living is:
77-year-old Jiang Shumei is still learning to paint;
83-year-old Wang Deshun is still pressing his legs in the gym, always ready to get into work;
100-year-old Grandma Moses is still painting on her beloved drawing paper.
Adhering to inner joy and working tirelessly for it is the stimulant that drives life to manifest vitality at all times.
Carnegie said: You are young if you have faith, old if you doubt; young if you have confidence, old if you fear; young if you have hope, old if you despair; age wrinkles your skin, but the loss of enthusiasm damages the soul.
So what about you, have you ever thought about what kind of person you want to be? What do we want to live as?
Is this the way to die at 25 and be buried at 75?
Or half a lifetime away from the return of the dreamer, 80 years old, as Wang Deshun old man, shouted: I am still young.