Ever wondered what your 89 would look like?
On the way to getting old, there are only two ways to live: Some people live a tired, old age; some people live a relaxed, old age beautiful.
There is also a real forever 18 years old.
For example, the 89-year-old girl who has always been at the forefront of the trend, Riverside.
When she says those words, you'll understand why I'd refer to the gray-haired grandmother in front of me, as a girl.
She has the curiosity of a young person, the curiosity of a young person, the passion in a young person, and has even done things that many young people would like to do but dare not.
At the age of 79, in the company of her daughter, Grandma Jiang started her first trip abroad.
And then it was like opening a new world, and it was uncontrollable.
The traveler who owes his life to his youth will have to pay himself back even if it's too late to do so.
So Grandma Jiang started her world tour.
But because she was too old, the trip didn't go so smoothly, and it was even more challenging and adventurous for the onlookers.
The United States and New Zealand are reluctant to issue visas, and on long-haul airplanes, the captains and flight attendants are always nagging for more. But none of this can stop her feet to measure the world.
Not willing to issue visas, Jiang grandmother together with her daughter wrote a joint pledge to ensure that the elderly health, as well as accidents by their own, until the embassy released.
Worried about flying too long?
You see fly South Africa for 18 hours, peer young feet are swollen, Jiang grandmother all the way hale and hearty,
easily crushed.
Worrying about jet lag?
Worrying about your legs?
So many people in the melon stoned, square dance can not afford the age,
She in New Zealand to experience the glacier rafting adventure;
She in Switzerland in the helicopter on the snowy mountains;
She in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to see the windy high waves;
Life from the beginning of the no too late, travel is also.
From the first time she traveled abroad in 2009, the large world map was gradually covered with her small footprints, and so far she has traveled to more than 10 countries, including the United States, France, Switzerland, South Africa, Thailand ...... and so on.
In 2017, she simply sold her house and continued to travel around the world , and this year she also intends to go to Japan to see ......
In this regard, some people say that she is handsome, some people say that she is stupid, and some people open the bow to diss the old man: the family must be rich, more than A suite of ......
In this regard, a long time to live through the grandmother of the river, a general laugh over.
For her, selling the house travel significance, the limited conditions of the pursuit of a better life experience, happy to spend the rest of his life.
But the life of such a happy and dashing old man is not very smooth.
Born in Hangzhou in the 1930s, the family had 11 siblings, and Grandma Jiang was the seventh in line.
The family environment was quite favorable, but at the age of 17, Grandma Jiang responded to the call of the revolution and became a member of the People's Liberation Army.
In the chaos of the war, along the Suzhou, Nanjing, Beijing all the way to the north, she encountered the cruel war, but also saw the motherland beautiful mountains and rivers.
After liberation, she specialized as a nurse and met the love of her life there.
Grandma Jiang's husband spoke fluent English and was a graduate of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and soon after their relationship, they tied the knot and gave birth to a son and a daughter.
But life did not settle down.
In 1977, her husband was transferred to Qinghai, she realistically followed to settle in Qinghai, and then transferred to Yuhang, she formally separated from her husband's life, a life is 30 years.
Separated by days, they can only rely on letters to know each other's recent situation, tell each other their feelings.
Until 2005, when her husband retired, the family was reunited.
But the good times didn't last long. Soon, the son of the grandmother suffered a car accident and died, and her husband left the world.
Inside the loneliness and heartache, she "downplayed", but the unbearable pain of life, unbearable weight, so she felt like she was swallowed up by grief, almost completely crushed her.
How many times did she not want to go on?
But in the end, she chose to break out of her grief and face the unbearable pain of her later years head on.
So, at the age of 79, she had her first trip abroad;
So, at the age of 87, she sold her house and traveled around the world, enjoying the rest;
So, in the last 10 years, traveled to more than 10 countries, more than the young people also arbitrary ......
Traveling, for Grandma Jiang, is not only entertainment, but also a kind of inventory of life, a self-healing, a life sublimation.
Jiang grandmother deeds on the Internet broke out, attracted countless netizens praise:
Jiang grandmother has an 89-year-old face and an 18-year-old heart. I wish I could be like this when I am old.
This is living to understand.
I read a sentence before: we are the last generation of filial parents, and in the future, we will be the generation abandoned by our children; we are the last generation of people who need to support their parents, and the first generation of people whose children can not support us.
In the eyes of many people, a nursing home is a place full of injuries, illnesses, loneliness and coldness.
But after selling her house, Grandma Jiang chose to live in a senior citizen's home in Yuhang.
She said:
" A lot of older people don't want to go to a nursing home, but I don't think the same as they do, and I think it's quite nice. "
"Cohabitation" is popular in Germany, and Grandma Jiang also wants to play her own sunset with her peers.
There is only one room in the nursing home, a cupboard, a table, a bed, a sofa, a refrigerator, a washing machine, a TV, an induction cooker, a microwave oven.
Jiang grandmother with documents and bank cards, simple handbag to move in.
The moment she checked in, she was completely enlightened: People ah, most of the life of the accumulated wealth, in fact, are not their own, they actually only belong to the world, we are at best to look at, play a game, with a use.
Since life doesn't bring, death doesn't bring, it's better to try to experience.
And the lively and cheerful Grandma Jiang, who is the head of the 7th floor, is now the star old man of the apartment.
Usually, she wakes up at five o'clock every day and makes her own breakfast.
Then she walks with her neighbors, goes to the gym, and plays mahjong with them.
The apartment also organizes activities for the elderly. On Monday afternoons, they organize singing, and on Wednesday afternoons, they organize handicrafts.
In order to make everyone have a good time, Grandma Jiang also organizes the old companions on the 7th floor, every Thursday morning K song.
"The Grassland Rises the Sun that Never Falls" is the floor song I chose and must sing every time."
Also from time to time to give the administrator suggestions to organize climbing mountains, watching movies activities.
2 years ago, Jiang grandmother began to contact the smartphone, a variety of App is also playing 666.
Jiang grandmother also play WeChat, but also took a fashionable nickname "happy fruit Bin", video phone calls, take pictures, send a circle of friends is not at all easy to say, you look at the nine-gang circle of friends slip it.
Jiang grandmother also played the WeChat, but also a fashionable nickname "happy fruit Bin", video phone calls, take pictures, send a circle of friends is not at all easy, you look at the nine-gang circle of friends slip it?
Jiang grandmother like and old sisters shopping supermarkets, go out common net car APP.
After shopping supermarkets, we also eat a KFC, Pizza Hut, and so on, 89 years old, life than 18 years old are colorful.
By the end of the week, Grandma Jiang went back to her daughter's house.
Home has the coziness of home, and the apartment has the comfort of an apartment.
It turns out that when you're old, the biggest thing you can rely on is not your kids, but your heart, and you'll be able to live your life in style even after all these years.
We can't predict the outcome of our lives, nor can we control the length of our lives.
But before the end of life, I really envy the grandmother of the river, frankly old, become the world a vulgar scenery; do their best to live every day, let the ordinary days become extraordinary and taste.
Life can only sleep in a bed, live in a room, but can have the whole world, it is better to do your best to experience, this is the most due to the essence of the people living!
The beginning of a person's aging is to stop traveling.
And you have to believe that no matter how old you are, life never starts too late, it just never starts.