When people are old, they should serve the old Zhang Baotong 2017.12.13

A few days ago, an old golfer helped install a light bulb in the stadium and accidentally lost his balance, fell off the ladder, and lost his life. This painful lesson teaches us that when people are old, they should serve old age.

The story is still told from the beginning. My old golfer's surname is Chen, everyone calls him Chen Shi, he learned to play table tennis in an amateur sports school since he was a child, and later, because he played well, he was recruited to work in the railway unit, and began to work along the railway, and later transferred back to Xi'an, and won the championship in the competition of the Xi'an Railway Bureau many times. Because he likes to play, he retired early 20 years ago, taught students to play in the stadium, and trained his son to become a player for the provincial team. However, as he grew older, his energy and physical strength became less and less, and his memory was also significantly reduced. When he was training with his students, he sometimes wanted to go out and smoke a cigarette to relax, but after he finished smoking it, he ran out into the street. Sometimes I play mahjong with others at night, and when I go to the bathroom halfway, I forget about playing cards and go straight home to sleep. After a few times of this, no one played mahjong with him anymore, and the children didn't let him continue to teach.

It doesn't matter if no one plays mahjong with him, but if you let him leave table tennis, you can't do it. He began to learn to play at the age of seven or eight, and now he is sixty-seven or eighteen years old, and has formed an indissoluble bond with table tennis. Although he no longer teaches the children, he still comes to the stadium every day as usual. In the morning, some retired employees would come to play, and he would teach everyone to play and practice on a voluntary basis. At noon, everyone left the stadium, but he didn't want to go home, he felt that it was very troublesome to go back and forth, so he lay down on the bench of the stadium to sleep, and when the stadium opened at two o'clock in the afternoon, someone came to play, and he accompanied everyone to play, anyway, the stadium did not let him pay the fee. That's how the two or three years passed.

However, some time ago, the boss found that two employees who were responsible for the sanitation and management of the stadium often left their posts at noon, and when they inquired, they learned that the two employees were going home to cook at noon, so they were entrusted to let Chen Shi help take care of the stadium during this time at noon. Because Chen Shi helped everyone practice in the morning, everyone also knew that he didn't go home for dinner at noon, so someone would always bring him a cake or a bun, and someone would send him a bag of milk. In this way, he didn't even have to go out of the arena at noon, and just treated these things as lunch. After lunch, he asked the two temporary workers to go home to cook and take a nap on the bench in the stadium. However, the owner of the stadium stipulated that the two hired workers should take turns eating at noon and were not allowed to go home. In addition, there are a lot of drinks and other sales items on the bar of the stadium, and there are many times when there is a shortage of goods. Therefore, the owner of the stadium said to Chen Shi, we welcome you to come to play, but you can't take the post for others. Chen Shi agreed.

However, he still can't be idle, and he still likes to help others with something. The lamp head of the stadium was broken, and he shouldn't have taken care of it, but he enthusiastically helped others buy lamp heads, and when he bought them, he had to install them for others. That morning, everyone helped together, lifted half of the table, and set up a ladder on the half table, supported by four people, and Chen Shi went up to the ladder to install the lamp head. Maybe the quality of the lamp head is not good, and it is installed, but the light is not on. At this time, it was already eleven o'clock, and everyone was in a hurry to go home and cook, so they said, forget it, let's be safe in the afternoon. So, everyone broke up and went home.

After Chen Shi had lunch, he stayed in the stadium and was idle, so he wanted to install it again, so that when everyone entered the stadium in the afternoon, they could see that the lights had been repaired. So, he went up to the ladder that had been erected on the table and began to install the lights. But the light still didn't come on, so he tried to install it again while pondering. Suddenly, he felt a little dizzy and his eyes glazed, so he hurried down the ladder, but when he did not step on it, the ladder shook, and he fell down from the ladder at once. When he fell, in order to protect himself, he jumped down, trying to jump on the half of the table, but he fell from the edge of the table again. Under normal circumstances, he would have broken his leg if he fell to the ground. However, when he fell from the edge of the table, the back of his head hit the corner of the upper beam of the baffle made of angle iron, and the man immediately fell unconscious. After the ambulance took him to the hospital, he was rescued for seven or eight hours, but he still could not be saved. Chen Shi, who just turned 70 this year, left forever. And now they are facing a lawsuit between the family and the stadium.

Let's not talk about who is more responsible for this lawsuit, but just say that as Master Chen, he is already so old, how can he climb high and low to help others install lamp heads? Although our generation is used to being self-reliant, whether it is installing lights, changing faucets, repairing windows, or repairing cars, etc., they all do it themselves. However, we were young then, but now that we are all old, we are no longer able to do these things. For example, in the past, we carried a 50-kilogram bag of noodles to the fifth floor in one breath, but now it is a 20-kilogram thing, and we have to rest two or three times when we go upstairs. For another example, in the past, the range hood was dismantled and washed by itself, but now someone has to be asked to disassemble and wash it. Although I can disassemble and wash myself, after the dismantling and cleaning are completed, I am tired and dizzy, dizzy and nauseous, very uncomfortable, and sometimes I will be seriously ill.

We all know the story of "Lian Po is old, can he still eat". The story is that after Lian Po was dismissed, he ran to the Wei State, King Zhao wanted to use him again, and sent someone to see his physical condition, Lian Po's hatred Guo Kai bribed the messenger, and the messenger saw Lian Po, Lian Po was one of the rice buckets of rice, ten catties of meat, and was put on the horse to show that it was still available. Zhao envoy came back to report to the king, saying, "Although General Lian Po is old, he is still good at eating, but he sits with his ministers, and he is left behind." King Zhao thought he was old, so he didn't use it. This means that although Lian Po is old, he can still eat a lot, but he pooped several times during the meal, indicating that his physical condition is not as good as before. In fact, 35 years have passed since Lian Po made a meritorious career and became famous to King Zhao wanting to enable him again, and Lian Po should be 60 years old at this time. Although Lian Po himself does not accept the old, he can't compare it with the past. Whether it is from the perspective of Go or playing, the age difference is two or three years old or four or five years old, and there will be a very obvious difference in competitive ability. It's just that sometimes because of our self-esteem and self-esteem, we feel good about ourselves, so we take advantage of our ability and attack hard. In this case, we often rely on perseverance rather than physical strength and ability. And with the support of perseverance to do what we are already beyond our power, it is easy to cause damage to our bodies. The year before last, my mother was 86 years old, and she washed and sewed the quilt and wanted to put it on the big closet. However, the big wardrobe was very high, so she stood on a chair and put the quilt on it, because she did it every year. However, this time, when she stood on the chair and put the quilt on the cabinet, the chair shook a little, and she didn't step on it steadily, so she suddenly lay on her back and fell to the ground. A bag the size of an egg fell on the back of his head, and he immediately passed out. At that time, she lived alone, and it was not until midnight that she woke up. This is a way of misjudging based on the habitual consciousness of the past, thinking that what has been done in the past can still be done. As everyone knows, the past and the present are very different. What I could do last year, I am afraid I will never be able to do again this year. For example, last year, I participated in a series of table tennis competitions between the district government and the Education Bureau, and the opponents I met in the finals were all people who had never won against me, but I lost both matches. Because I reached the final, my physical strength was obviously not enough. Especially in old age, you will obviously feel that both physical strength and memory are not as good as a year, so what you were able to do last year may not be able to do again this year. When Master Chen had such a big incident, I am afraid he also made this mistake in terms of habit and consciousness. He didn't think about a 70-year-old man who couldn't do this kind of work of climbing high and low to install lamp heads anyway. However, in his habitual consciousness, he thought that I installed the lamp head in my house, and I could do this. That's why this unexpected tragedy happened.

We often hear inspirational idioms such as "old age is stronger", "the sword is not old" and "the old man is in the bush, the ambition is thousands of miles, the martyr is in his twilight years, and the heart is strong". These idioms can encourage us to continue to maintain a strong fighting spirit, but people should respect the laws of nature, know their age and abilities, know how to love and protect themselves, and distinguish what we can do and what we can't do. When people are old, they should serve the old, and those who do not accept the old should be a spirit, not our age.