I want to think about it ha: of course, a few girlfriends to hold a group of old age
We saw a movie called "The Sunshine Sisters" before, there is a line in it that made a deep impression: "There are some people, they walk barefoot in your life, with a smile on their brow, not briefly, not long. But enough to make you experience happiness, appreciate pain, and remember for a lifetime."
They are not your lovers, but understand you better than lovers; they are not family, but sometimes give you more warmth than family, they are friends.
I don't know if you guys have ever thought about where you want to be when you get old? Once upon a time I have never thought carefully about this question, I always feel that it is nothing more than the same as most people, a house, two people, four seasons, if you are lucky, maybe you will have a cat, have a dog, the children occasionally come home, a piece of dinner, but also some people say: I wish that when you are old, you can also have a side can be accompanied by you to eat, drink and play with the people. What is the most desirable old age life? It's not just having someone by your side, playing cards and chatting. In the evening, you can dance together or have a tea party, and if the weather is good, you can go out and take some beautiful photos together.
Until I saw an episode of Dream Makeover aired a while back on "Five Single Sisters' Retirement Home," this is my dream retirement!
The story begins with 5 sisters. These 5 sisters are all from Sichuan, their average age is around 55, and they all have one **** in common - they are single.
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The two earliest members of the group, Cai and Hu, met in 1996, and a year later they met Ji, and so began the friendship of the "Iron Triangle," a group of people who, though not family, are as close as family. Nothing to do with a small get-together, travel together, life is very comfortable. So in 2017, the three of them agreed that since they were all single, they might as well live together. But in making a good decision, they found a problem - 3 people are too few! Because the three aunts are Sichuan people, all like to play mahjong, three people live together also can not make up a table of mahjong, that's how meaningless ah. So they decided to halfway "pull people into the gang". In this way, Sister Li and Sister Song joined the "girlfriends group". Coincidentally, these two sisters are also single, so everyone's ideas and life concepts are very similar, it did not take long, 5 people have become good friends, said "like-minded", this sentence now seems to be justified.
"Since we want to retire, we must find a place with beautiful mountains and fresh air. Away from the city, away from tall buildings, away from the haze, away from exhaust fumes. So in order to find the best place, the 5 people would drive out to step on the spot when they had nothing to do. As early as 2017, they almost ran through places big and small around Sichuan.
When they passed by a place called Songpan County, several aunts were moved. This place is far away from the hustle and bustle, beautiful mountains, grasslands, snowy mountains, lakes... You can think of the scenery, here basically have. Live here, push open the window in the morning can see the vast grassland and blue sky, nothing to ride a horse, skating is also quite good. The residents here are all very simple and kind, treating people warmly, here will also have a sense of belonging. However, beautiful as it is, there are still a lot of problems here, because it is too far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, many of the infrastructures here are not perfect. Not only is there no supermarket kiosk, even the health center is far away. Life, in addition to poetry and picturesque, still need wood, rice, oil and salt, so they are fully loaded, intend to go to a more distant place to see.
Driving from Sichuan to Yunnan, they eventually came to Lijiang.
Lijiang is a very familiar place, where "every house has water, every house has flowers", is a lot of people are looking forward to the paradise. The water in every house, the flowers in every house, both ancient architecture and modern living conditions, such a pleasant life, anyone would want to live, so finally, we deliberated, decided to set the pension in Lijiang.
Selected the address, began to look for the desired house, Lijiang has a lot of yard, they chose to look at this house, said the poor nature is not bad: located in the half slope above, 520 square meters of space, the view is wide, you can see the panoramic view of the old city, but to say that the good, that's also quite bad: old, broken, and rotten.
But the aunts still hold a beautiful vision, bite the bullet and buy down also invited people to rebuild the base house. But this rough house, how to look, feel like a farmhouse or factory, always far from the heart of the home, so a few people discussed, decided to make the yard a complete remodeling. Although the five people have similar personalities, they each have their own ideas about where they want to live, so they approached the program to seek the help of a designer.
""I don't want to walk, so an elevator is a must"
"A private kitchenette would be nice"
"It's better to have a style for each room, so people
"I'm allergic to ultraviolet rays, so the rooms should have sunlight but not too much."
"I want a bigger checkroom, and I want to have a gym to play with."
In the face of these needs, the designer broke the original pattern of the house and started to remodel the house.
Overall, the house, whether it is the general structure, or the details of the design, need to make some great efforts, the following is to witness the miracle of the moment -
First of all, the door is a large yard. It is the dream yard, the yard is full of flowers and plants, there is a porch, dreamy, the afternoon sun is extraordinarily warm, here in the sun, chatting, sipping tea is excellent, if it happens to rain, can not go out is also okay. A corner of the house, there is such a tea room, "sitting under the eaves at leisure, listening to the sound of the rain hitting the window."
The overall color of the house is warm, which creates a warm feeling of home. The large floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room allow people to enjoy the scenery outside the window at any time.
The simple and bright dining room, you will feel happy to have a breakfast here, right?
There is also a large open kitchen big enough for sisters to show their cooking skills here. The integrated cabinet in the kitchen also hides a huge storage space.
The dining room is separated from the living room by a fireplace: in winter, you can gather around the fireplace, roast the fire, and hum a song, so it's a godly life.
Next is the sisters' bedrooms, the first floor bedrooms are connected to the courtyard, so the view is great.
Every window in the second floor rooms was a view, with trees, sunshine, and good scenery outside the windows.
Two of the rooms are connected through the balcony, standing on the balcony, reaching out to the green leaves and the breeze, the so-called "quiet years" is so.
The second floor also has a small garden, not large, but full of happiness, tending to the flowers and plants or just laze around is excellent, and three or five friends together, find a favorite city, keep a small courtyard together with the end of the day, this is not happy?
In fact, the "girlfriends group pension" has long been nothing new. There have been many such stories, both at home and abroad, and there is no fear of old age or death or of being involved in the family business among the five older sisters, but only laughter and playfulness.
Their life, in fact, is not all smooth sailing: family members do not understand the not married; divorced from the cold eyes suffered; alone to raise children grew up hard ...... But right here, right now, they decided to leave everything behind and live for themselves.
Compared with them, we are now in the city, but more tired. In fact, I envy them, they have a rich spiritual world, and can do what they want to do in style. Although we can't choose the way we are born, we can choose the way we grow old. Work hard, confident and calm, nourished by life, surrounded by love, do what you like, live the life you want to live, this is happiness, right?