Chapter 71
When you get old, your hair turns white, and your sleepiness is drowsy...
Well, what kind of life will be like when you get old?
By then, the familiar friends will get older and no longer be convenient to move. We cannot gather as if we want to get together like we are young. After all, we are powerless.
Will you be lonely when you get old?
In my hometown, there are many left-behind elderly people, and naturally there are many lonely elderly people.
The elderly love this land that is born and raised and are unwilling to go to a big city with economic prosperity. Although the strange city is beautiful and fresh, it is someone else's city after all, and they do not have that sense of belonging to home in their hearts.
In my hometown, the elderly can hear familiar hometown dialects, occasionally see familiar old friends, and say what they want to say without worrying that others don’t understand.
It is comfortable to be in my hometown, but it is also lonely.
When the elderly grow up, almost all their children and grandchildren go to big cities. Well, this is what the elderly hope, hoping that their descendants will have a future and go out to explore the world.
However, after going out for a long time, the younger generation fell in love with life in big cities. For their hometown, they only come back to see each other or gather with friends when they have time.
My hometown seems to gradually become less important in the hearts of my younger generations. As long as I have money, I yearn for buying cars and houses in big cities.
In the forgotten hometown, there will naturally be forgotten elderly people.
There are actually very few juniors who go back to their hometown to visit the elderly, and sometimes they may not even have a phone call for a long time.
Some really can't take time, and some people think about where to go despite having time, rather than thinking about their hometown and the elderly in their hometown.
Therefore, the elderly in their hometown often sit quietly at the door to watch. What are they looking at? I don’t know, maybe they are recalling, maybe they are hoping, maybe they are just sitting bored and quietly…
The loneliness in their eyes and the helplessness of their aging carves out their increasingly vicissitudes of faces.
The older you are, the more lonely you seem.
I am very afraid of this boring loneliness, so I must have my spiritual world and find my own value in the spiritual world. Even if I am lonely, it is a kind of happy loneliness.
There is an old man who sells pork in my hometown. He is already quite old. His son runs a factory and is very rich. Logically, the old man doesn’t need to walk step by step with a cart to sell pork everywhere every day.
But others say that although the old man is not short of money, he said that he feels boring all the time. He can also exercise and exercise, which is beneficial to his health. The most important thing is that after selling pork for so many years, he suddenly stopped selling it and felt uncomfortable all over his body.
I think selling pork belongs to his spiritual world.
My grandmother also has her spiritual world, she is working in the fields.
But, this is very difficult.
Because the grandma has already struggled to walk now, let alone work.
Therefore, without the support of her spiritual world, she feels bored every day and is so lonely every day.
Well, people must have their own hobbies, because when they get old, hobbies will become a very important spiritual sustenance.
When I get old, I will not restrict my children and grandchildren from going home from time to time to see me or call me frequently. They have their world, I have my world, and I will only focus on what I want to do.
I train the next generation not to bind them and let them be filial when I get old, but to let them live out their own value, do what they should do, and pass on it. That's enough.
Sagittarius like me who are unruly and indulgent and love freedom, even if they are old, they should be an old naughty boy like Zhou Botong.
When I get old, my hair turns white, and I feel sleepy and drowsy...
Then, I will play games! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!