Morning reading

White Eyes and White Teeth is not only a description of beauty, but also an ode to youth. On the contrary, "looking at that huge, gray, trembling tooth" is in stark contrast to the life course from prosperity to failure from beginning to end.

After retirement, I was busy dealing with the big and small things in my life and spent ten years in a hurry.

Dressed up in the mirror this morning, I suddenly turned black and looked back and forth several times: huh? Huh? Eyelashes The dense and orderly rows of eyelashes on the eyelids used to have wings, but now almost all of them have flown away and become sparse!

Ten years before this, I saw my hair turning gray day by day, and I often lost my hair when I combed it. In order not to show fatigue, I decided to wash my hair, dye my hair, perm my hair and protect my hair. Although you can delay aging through hair makeup in these years, you still lose to reality: you will get old when you are old!

There are many books with the theme of "one's old age", and "keeping a young heart" is the experience of many authors.

In the book "Prepare a Happy Passbook for the Elderly", Japanese writers especially remind the elderly who live alone not to think of their old age as "the rest of their lives", but to establish three attitudes of happiness, interaction and mutual assistance: living alone is not lonely, self-reliance is not isolated, and being a talkative old man should avoid being "annoying" so that even the elderly who live alone can live happily, peacefully and calmly.

When people are old, there are fewer people who talk, so you can't help complaining whenever you get a chance: children are so difficult to communicate, grandchildren are so arrogant, neighbors are so indifferent ... Old people complain more and smile less, so the author of this book suggests that when you call your friend to "dispel your worries", you should tell him frankly: "I want to chat with my old friends. Are you free now? " When you have finished complaining, you should say, "I feel much better chatting with you, and I'd better be an old friend!" " "

The suggestion in the writer's book is that it is better to talk for ten minutes and the water will flow forever. Call again next time, you might as well exchange your right to speak for your friends first. It is not difficult to talk back and forth. (Gui Wenya)

In fact, I have a special understanding of the talkativeness of the elderly. When my mother was young, she was articulate and clear-headed. Naturally, being a child is the "chief listener" (usually only listening); In his later years, the length of the speech grew with age and could not stop. Since I live in Taiwan Province Province and my mother immigrated to the United States for more than 30 years, I have long been used to chatting with my daughter by long-distance telephone. An hour's chat is at least. I should be able to buy a small suite with the long-distance telephone charges accumulated every year!

Now that my mother has passed away, no one has spoken to me on the phone, which has deepened my understanding and nostalgia for the talkative elderly. (Gui Wenya)