(To be honest, at 73 years of age, I can call him grandpa, but the company has a rule, not allowed to call others grandpa, only allowed to call them uncle and aunt. To the back of the call accustomed to, has been called their uncle, good in the old home dialect is not the same, not to embarrass death.)
Although already 73 years old, but Uncle Zhou's body is still good, no big problem, aunt is the same. It looks like a relatively happy and fulfilled old couple, however, the actual situation is not like this, Uncle Zhou is not living a happy life.
Uncle Zhou used to work in a state-owned enterprise unit, 65 years old when he retired. Retirement that moment, just how long the daughter granddaughter was born, the old couple around the granddaughter all day long, although more difficult, but at least you can enjoy the bitter, living is still relatively fulfilling.
But as the granddaughter gradually grows up, to the age of school, there is no two old mouth something. The couple decided to just take advantage of this period of time the body can still move, go outside and drive around to play for a year, after returning to only rely on a month of 2000 yuan of retirement pay to live. But the trouble is also from this time to start, because after the retirement from the period and the former old colleagues do not contact, and slowly lost the interaction, and only then found a person is how lonely.
Unlike the aunts, the aunts, because of their relationship with the aunts, a few almost older aunts are better, usually together we can chatter, play mahjong, dancing and other such activities, life is not boring.
But Uncle Zhou's day is like this:
Wake up at six o'clock in the morning, the old lady has long been followed by her neighbors to go to the square dance, because of the long time he did not contact with his old pals before, I do not know where to go. I want to go to the park alone, always feel bad, want to play Tai Chi with other people, and feel that I do not know anything, thinking about how other people can teach you, have no choice but to continue to stay at home, but do not know what to do.
It was hard to wait until my partner came back from the square dance, and after breakfast, my partner started her own housework. And their own reasons for previous work never do housework, and will not do, want to follow the old partner to go to the market, at first okay, but to the back of the old partner felt that he was very annoying, and no longer care about him, Uncle Zhou himself is embarrassed to pull down the face to beg the old partner, and then so stayed at home again for a morning.
After lunch, there is no habit of taking a lunch break. In the past, when I was in the company, I always used to be busy with my work, and when I brought my granddaughter back to play with her, I never thought about what I needed to do in the afternoon. But this is not the same, they have retired, the granddaughter is not in their own side, all of a sudden do not know what to do, the heart is always a faint sense of loneliness, feel their old age all of a sudden.
Zhou uncle intends to go out for a walk, he first came to the park, find a chair to lie down to rest will, but look at others are looking at him with strange eyes, embarrassed, in the park around. See in front of a few and their own age almost big old man there to play chess, want to go over to make a scene, but found that those people do not know each other, people also completely did not take him seriously. At this time, Uncle Zhou not only thought of his previous work in the unit, because there is a certain number of years, never are others to take the initiative to flatter him, that he went to find others, but this will be their own retirement, others will not take him seriously, think of this heart is again for no reason a burst of loss.
Thinking of the park can not stay, then go to stroll around the supermarket, ran to here a down a lot of beautiful service to ask him what he wants, at first Uncle Zhou also feel quite happy, thinking that he finally came to the right place. But when the waiter gave him the introduction of the product, his face and red, although one has 2000 to the retirement pay, but are placed in the old partner there. And usually the granddaughter over to visit their own time also have to buy some gifts and so on, the day itself has been living in a tight, and then want to buy other things is obviously impossible, and had to slink away. Plus the supermarket inside the people come and go, less than an hour, have been unable to stand, had no choice but to go home to stay, so stay at home another day.
Compared with the morning and afternoon is the evening, before Uncle Zhou work, the evening back home have been 7:00, but this is only 5:00 on the dinner, 9:00 p.m. to go to bed, these four hours do not know what to do. Want to watch TV, found some young idol dramas, either commercials and so on, they want to watch the program and can not find, and do not know what to watch, want to read a book, but also feel that the heart can not be quiet. As for a good word with his partner, that's even more impossible, because his partner and her neighbors went out again, leaving Uncle Zhou alone in the house, facing only a cold wall, so life day after day.
In fact, although Uncle Zhou's life in old age is still relatively lucky, compared with Uncle Zhou, there are many older people even worse than Uncle Zhou, they do not play the phone, do not dance, and do not know how to surf the Internet and so on, they can not do anything, and will not do anything, can only be snailed in their own huts day in and day out. What's more, the hard work of bringing up their own sons and daughters, but finally ended up being their own children out of the door, and even life can not be guaranteed, this is the most pathetic.
To be honest, I usually pay little attention to the life of the elderly, but after reading Junichi Watanabe's "The Lonely Boat," I realized that compared with other age groups, the elderly are the ones who deserve our attention the most.
China has always had a tradition of honoring the elderly and loving the young, so do something for them at an age when you can do something!
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