The old man was white-haired, dressed in a fresh and elegant Cui Hua dress, leaning on a cart similar to supermarket shopping in one hand and turning over a book in the other. Whenever I get a book, I can't put it down. Because I don't wear glasses, I should lower my head to the book when reading. After a turn, when I was operating the book borrowing process on the self-service equipment, the old man and his wife also borrowed books and walked away with help.
I remember coming into contact with many similar situations before. At a company's foreign trade fair, an old man over 50 years old found us through more than 50 booths. He just saw a tourist route on the leaflet we released before, took the bus at six in the morning, bought his own ticket and found us through the sea of people. Every sailing day of the company's Japan-Korea cruise ship, when taking photos at the pier, the most tourists are the energetic old people.
Like and have a lifelong hobby. The old people I met in the library are very stubborn. They went to the library for 30, 40 and 50 years. Maybe their legs and feet are getting clumsy and their eyes are getting blurred, but as long as they can, they have been insisting. Old people over 60 can still insist on the pursuit of reading and the desire for knowledge. Perhaps young us, if we want to survive in this society where competition is almost cruel, we must keep charging, and an important way to enrich ourselves is reading. Reading can let us master the latest industry trends and the most useful work skills, and reading can also make us full of energy and adequate food. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is indisputable common sense to read more books when you are young.
But maybe reading is reading, not to make yourself stand in the society, not to make yourself knowledgeable. There may be other reasons for reading. Reading is pure and simple, which has become the most meaningful thing in life. They are stubborn and don't want to muddle along in the last few years of their lives. Maybe they just want to know more about the unmeasurable world so that they can swim in the ocean of words. Maybe you can't extend the length of life, but you can change its width. After all, a rich spiritual world is the most precious wealth in life. Maybe it can change the weight of your soul.
Love playing chess, dancing in square dance and listening to drama ... may be the common hobby of ordinary elderly people. But love to play, love to take risks, love to toss, these things that may belong to young people are attached to the years of some old people. They seem to have inexhaustible energy, and they are always full of energy when it comes to playing. They are stubborn, saying that they will go to the United States to see the Statue of Liberty, Paris to see the Eiffel Tower, and Egypt to see the South Pole ... and then they will walk and feel one by one.
Backpackers (an old couple in Beijing) who became popular online because of their self-help global travel to more than 40 countries on 7 continents camped in the frozen Antarctic and slept in hammocks in Amazon. They only have the English level of the second grade of primary school, but they can play with the locals. Their optimistic attitude towards life and happy old age have become the goals pursued by young people today.
The language barrier, the fetters of trivial matters, the busyness of work, and the financial constraints are all difficulties, and the "well-dressed backpacker" has steadily crossed the hurdle. Satisfy your curiosity about the world and be younger physically and mentally. "It's been too quiet for so many years, and I began to get to know each other again when I was traveling." Even talked about a second love.
They said, "Houses and wealth can bring happiness, but they are not infinite happiness. For us, traveling around the world is more important than a house. The best of both worlds, but if we have to give up one, we choose to travel around the world. "