How did a pair of old people in their late nineties spend this cold winter?
My mother-in-law lamented that life is not easy when she is old.
The two details she mentioned made me deeply feel the weight of the word "not easy".
Grandpa is over 90 and bought him a lot of cotton trousers and down trousers. It was cold, but he didn't wear anything. Instead, I chose a small quilt to cover my legs. The reason is that wearing too much clothes is inconvenient to go to the toilet, and it is easy to get your pants dirty.
Listening to my mother-in-law's narrative, my heart was sour. My grandfather was respected all his life. Old party member, the old village head, is respected by all the people in the village. When I get old, I become so fragile.
He is more and more disappointed in himself, always chanting "it's no use getting old."
And grandma, when she was young, was a good hand at housework. Women can get the same work points as big men, and they can also make delicious food with limited ingredients. But it is such an indomitable little woman who has been defeated in the face of years and has never been able to lift the spatula to cook-she can't lift it.
Aging is a natural law, and no one can escape. At the end of time, we will grow old.
There is a joke, don't care too much, why should women embarrass women? Anyway, they have to dance square dance together.
According to the data of the seventh national census, the population aged 60 and over in China has reached 264 million. It is predicted that the elderly population in China will exceed 300 million during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
In recent years, with the emergence of words such as "living alone", "empty nest" and "disability", the elderly group has been focused by public opinion. How to make the elderly live a more dignified and better life is a topic worthy of our attention, which concerns each of us, because we will grow old one day.
In the torrent of time, the Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives.
5G, face recognition, artificial intelligence, and various technologies are rapidly iterating, but this digital age is not so friendly to the elderly.
The convenience of "one-click direct access" saves young people time and effort, but it makes the elderly hit a wall everywhere, making their less relaxed life more difficult. ......
"The 94-year-old man's face was recognized when he applied for a bank card." "On the train, the old man bought a new mobile phone and couldn't use it. He asked a stranger for help. As a result, the money in it was gone. The old man couldn't use his smart phone and scan the health code, so he was kicked away by the driver and passengers on duty. Grandpa spent six hours copying the train timetable. .......
This kind of news makes people sad.
Do you deserve to be eliminated by the times just because you can't use smart phones? Netizens gave their own answers:
"Too smart and unfriendly."
"The old man walked slowly. I hope I can take good care of him. We all get old one day. "
"I hope to eliminate mobile phones, not the elderly."
The loss of "silver-haired people" was finally seen. The state has issued relevant policies, enterprises have begun to provide more intelligent products and services for the elderly, mobile phone classes have been set up in communities, banks and stations have set up green channels for the elderly, and children have begun to go home to teach their elders about mobile phones. .....
As long as there is love, the digital divide is no longer terrible.
In some cities, there are matchmaking corners in parks and squares. Different from the general blind date angle, the old people who come here are not seeking marriage for their children, but for themselves.
Their situation is different, but their goal is the same, to find a partner to live with and start a relationship again.
Old people will write a notice on the bulletin board in advance, or find a corner to sit still and put paper in front of them, waiting for the beginning of a fate.
This is how Aunt Zhou gained her feelings. The man is eight years younger than her and divorced. And she is 62 years old, widowed in middle age, with big children. When they are married, she also longs for someone to accompany her to her old age and take care of her.
However, Aunt Zhou's relationship has not been blessed by her children. Because the man is not only younger than Aunt Zhou, but also has no fixed job and no retirement salary, the house is still rented.
After getting along, Aunt Zhou was moved by her boyfriend's thoughtfulness, regardless of her children's opposition to moving to the man's residence to live together, and also used her savings to support her boyfriend to do small business, and the two also got a certificate.
After marriage, the man's thoughtfulness stopped and his small business failed. The two live on Aunt Zhou's pension. Aunt Zhou regrets that the child broke up with her and her husband didn't take care of people as expected.
In contrast, it is another matter. The hero's name is familiar to many people. Yu Xiuhua, a poet with cerebral palsy, became popular with a song "Sleeping with You Half a China".
Yu Xiuhua's life is a bit legendary. She was born disabled because of lack of oxygen, but she was full of enthusiasm and became a dream-chaser. She spent most of her life struggling with physical inconvenience, unfair fate, plain life and loveless marriage.
The first thing Yu Xiuhua did when she got the payment was divorce, leaving her unfeeling ex-husband and a life she didn't like.
Yu Xiuhua, 46, is not an old man, but he has spent most of his life.
After ups and downs and hardships, she still didn't give up the pursuit of love. She said, "It is because there is no love that we fantasize about love crazily. Imagine the various forms of love. Love poems have also been written. "
Finally, at the beginning of 2022, she found her love, because love and the handsome guy after 90 came together.
Some people questioned that they didn't match, while others praised Yu Xiuhua's bravery.
Born in the sun, follow the light, love is her light, what's wrong with pursuing love?
? Just like Grandma Moses's story, her motivation is endless: life never begins later.
Taiwan Province Province has a "family village". There is a 92-year-old "Grandpa Rainbow" in the village. At the age of 86, he picked up a brush and began to draw on the wall. At first, because of the depression of life, grandpa only doodled in the house. Later, painting became more and more fun, and I began to paint outdoors. Neighbors saw that he painted well and promised him to paint on his own wall.
From then on, grandpa's canvases were everywhere, from dawn to sunset, day after day, and never stopped. Later, the whole village left grandpa's works, and the village became a fairy tale world, escaped the fate of being demolished, and became a punching point among network celebrities, attracting a large number of tourists.
Japan's 8 1 year-old grandmother dropped out of school early to work to subsidize her family because her family was poor when she was a child. Seeing her peers go to school, she can only cry silently. The dream of "going to school" was silently buried in her heart.
By the time the children grow up and get married, she will be over 70 years old. Once the dream comes back to her mind, she still wants to go to school.
After three years of hard thinking, she finally made up her mind to fight for her dream. Like a child, she began to learn everything again, learning English and computers ..... After stumbling for nine years, she finally entered the school she never forgot, and became classmates with the young people of her grandchildren.
She enjoyed school life wholeheartedly, drank milk tea, watched movies and chatted with her classmates, which won everyone's trust and love. Students also like to ask her about love.
Life seems to start again, the distance of time has been lengthened, and their "wow" day is so shining.
I am always afraid of aging, thinking that when I am white-haired, I have no young face, only an old heart.
But there are always some people who tell you with their stories that silver hair is not that terrible.
You still have love, dreams, love ... these steaming things, accompanying you through a long and depressing life.
When life closes a door, there is always a lamp left. Don't lose hope, courage and persistence.
Only when you are near will the sun shine in. May every old man, or someone who will grow old one day, be treated gently.