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No matter how old you are, life will never start too late. I'm afraid it will never start.
Author | Uncle Donkey
Source | Riding a donkey (ID: qilvtravel)
An 89-year-old face.
A heart 18 years old
People who love to travel are really unusual.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be 89?
On the way to getting old, there are only two ways of life: some people live tired and old-fashioned; Some people live easily and are beautiful when they are old.
There is also a real forever 18 years old.
For example, Jiang Bin, an 89-year-old woman who has been at the forefront of the trend.
"I chat on WeChat every day and brush my circle of friends for two hours;
Go to the supermarket every week and eat Pizza Hut;
I use' Pinduoduo' to find cheap goods;
I know Xiao Xianrou is a handsome young man ... "
When she said these words, you will understand why I called this white-haired old lady a girl.
She has young people's curiosity, young people's thirst for knowledge, young people's passion, and even did many things that young people dare not think about.
At the age of 79, Grandma Jiang, accompanied by her daughter, started her first trip abroad.
Then it seemed to open a new world, and it was out of control.
Pay back the money you owed when you were young, no matter how late, you won't lose money in this life.
So Grandma Jiang began her world tour.
But because I am too old, the trip is not so smooth, and it is full of challenges and adventures in the eyes of others.
The United States and New Zealand don't want to issue visas. When taking a long-distance plane, the captain and stewardess always say a few more words.
But none of this can stop her from measuring the pace of the world.
Grandma Jiang didn't want to issue a visa, so she wrote a joint guarantee with her daughter to ensure the health of the elderly and bear the accident herself until the embassy released her.
Worried about flying too long? You see, after flying to South Africa 18 hours, the young people in the same company have swollen feet, and Grandma Jiang is full of energy and easily crushed.
Worried about jet lag interference? If you think too much, Grandma Jiang can immediately integrate into the local environment and eat, drink, have fun and sleep as usual.
Worried about your legs and feet? An American tour guide helped all the way, and Grandma Jiang also said, "No need at all!"
So at an age when many people can't afford to eat melon seeds and dance in square dance,
She experienced a glacier drifting adventure in New Zealand.
She climbed snow-capped mountains by helicopter in Switzerland;
She watched the wind and waves at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa;
Life is never late, so is traveling.
Since her first trip abroad in 2009, the vast map of the world has gradually been covered with her little footprints. She has traveled all over the United States, France, Switzerland, South Africa, Thailand and other countries 10.
In 20 17, she simply sold her house and continued to travel around the world, planning to go to Japan this year. ...
In this regard, some people say that she is handsome, some people say that she is stupid, and some people bow to the old man diss: there must be money at home, more than one suite. ...
In this regard, Grandma Jiang, who had already lived a full life, laughed it off.
For her, the meaning of selling a house is to pursue a better life experience and spend the rest of her life happily under limited conditions.
But such an old man who is always happy and natural and unrestrained is not very smooth.
0 1
1930 was born in Hangzhou, with brothers and sisters 1 1, and grandma Jiang ranked seventh.
The family environment is not bad, but at the age of 17, Grandma Jiang responded to the call of the revolution and became a PLA man.
During the war, she went north along Suzhou, Nanjing and Beijing. She met a cruel war and saw the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
After liberation, I became a professional nurse, where I met the love of my life.
Grandma Jiang's husband is fluent in English and is high flyers from the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Shortly after contact, they tied the knot and gave birth to a son and a daughter.
But life has not settled down.
1977, my husband was transferred to Qinghai. She settled in Qinghai first and then transferred to Yuhang. She officially began to live apart from her husband for 30 years.
When the two places are separated, you can only know each other's recent situation by writing letters and tell each other your own feelings.
Until 2005, her husband retired and the family lived a reunion day.
But it didn't last long. Soon, grandma Jiang's son died in a car accident, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and her husband died.
Her inner loneliness and sadness, she "understated", but the unbearable pain and unbearable weight of this life made her feel that she was about to be swallowed up by grief and almost crushed her completely.
How many times, she really didn't want to endure it.
But in the end, she chose to rush out of her sadness and face the unbearable pain in her later years.
So, at the age of 79, she traveled abroad for the first time;
So, at the age of 87, she sold her house, traveled around the world and enjoyed the rest of her life;
Therefore, in the past 10 years, I have been to more than a dozen countries, and I am more headstrong than young people. ...
Travel, for Grandma Jiang, is not only entertainment, but also an inventory of life, a self-healing and a sublimation of life.
After the story of Grandma Jiang broke out on the Internet, it attracted the admiration of countless netizens:
Grandma Jiang has an 89-year-old face and an 8-year-old heart.
I hope I can do the same when I am old.
This is alive. I see.
02
I have read a sentence before: we are the generation that is the least filial to our parents, and we will be the generation abandoned by our children in the future; We are the last generation who need to support their parents, and the first generation of children can't support us.
In the eyes of many people, a nursing home is a place full of hurt, loneliness and cold.
But after selling the house, Grandma Jiang chose to live in an apartment for the elderly in Yuhang.
She said:
"Many old people don't want to go to nursing homes, but I don't think the same as them. I think it's very good here."
Like Germany, "living together for the aged" is very popular, and Grandma Jiang also wants to play with her peers.
The nursing home has only one room, cupboard, table, bed, sofa, refrigerator, washing machine, TV, induction cooker and microwave oven.
Grandma Jiang took her ID card and bank card and simply checked in with her bag.
At the moment she checked in, she completely understood: people, the wealth accumulated in most of their lives, are actually not their own. They actually only belong to this world. At best, we just look, play and use.
Since life does not bring, death does not bring, it is better to try to experience.
Lively and cheerful grandma Jiang is the corridor leader on the seventh floor, and now she is the star old man in the apartment.
Usually, she gets up at five o'clock every day and cooks her own breakfast.
Then walk with neighbors, go to the gym to do exercises, and then play mahjong together.
The apartment also organizes activities for the elderly. Organize singing every Monday afternoon and organizing handicrafts every Wednesday afternoon.
In order to make everyone happy, Grandma Jiang organizes the ladies on the 7th floor to sing karaoke every Thursday morning.
"The rising sun on the grassland is my song, and I have to sing it every time."
I also give advice to administrators from time to time and organize activities such as climbing mountains and watching movies.
Two years ago, Grandma Jiang began to contact smart phones, and various apps also played 666.
Grandma Jiang also plays WeChat and has a fashionable nickname "Happy Guobin". Video phone, photos, friends circle, not a problem at all. Do you think this circle of friends in Jiugongge is slipping away? !
Grandma Jiang likes to go to the supermarket with her old sisters, and often uses the online car APP when she goes out.
After visiting the supermarket, we also ate KFC and Pizza Hut together. The life of an 89-year-old man is more colorful than 18.
At the weekend, Grandma Jiang went back to her daughter's house.
Home has the warmth of home, and apartments have the comfort of apartments.
It turns out that when people are old, the biggest reliance is not their children, but their inner enrichment, and they can still live a chic life after vicissitudes.
03
We can neither predict the outcome of life nor control the length of life.
But before the curtain call of life, I really envy Grandma Jiang. She is getting old calmly and has become a beautiful scenery on earth. Try your best to live every day and make the plain life extraordinary and interesting.
Life can only sleep in a bed and live in a room, but if you can have the whole world, you might as well try to experience it. This is the best spirit for people to live!
The beginning of a person's aging is to stop traveling.
And you have to believe that no matter how old you are, life will never start too late, but you will never start.
The end—
? This article is selected from Uncle Donkey's Riding a Donkey (ID: qilvtravel). Opinions are authorized to be published.
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