People are not old, Zhang Baotong 2018.6.18

The clouds are dewy, the years are vicissitudes, people are always getting old day by day, and a teenager has become old in a few decades. However, the strange thing is that even though we are old and old, our hearts are still as young as ever. We still think about the glory of life and like young and beautiful women, and even our dreams are always the scenes of our student days and young years, as if we have never grown old.

The fact that a person's heart is not old means that although a person is old, he still has a young heart. With such a young heart, you will feel that you are not old yet. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang He, the general of Wei, led his army to attack Jiameng Pass in Shu. Meng Da hurriedly asked Liu Bei for help. Kong Ming was very worried about this, because there was no suitable general around him. At this time, the veteran generals Huang Zhong and Yan Yan asked for reinforcements. Some people have suggested that they are already old and frail, not as good as they were back then. But Kong Ming thought that although they were old, their hearts were not old, so they agreed that the two veterans would lead troops to reinforce Jiamengguan. The two veterans lived up to expectations and cooperated with each other, not only strengthening the defense of Jiameng Pass, but also cutting off the Wei army's grain and grass and seizing Hanzhong.

There is also a well-known story that happened to Qi Baishi. His first wife bore him five children, he went to Beijing at the age of 53, and four years later he married an 18-year-old girl and bore him seven more children. When the twelfth child was born, he was already 78 years old. It is often said that people are rare after 70 years, but when he was 83 years old, he impregnated his daughter-in-law again, and as a result, the mother died of dystocia. After his wife died, he married a head nurse at the hospital. However, the head nurse left him at the age of 91. When he was 93 years old, someone introduced him to a 44-year-old woman, but he thought the family was too old, so he found himself a 22-year-old girl.

It can be seen that our years have annual rings, and our lives have genetic codes, but our mentality and feelings are not determined by the genes of life, but by the accumulation of our experiences and experiences. This kind of experience and experience adheres to the trend of goodness, beauty and goodness, so with the growth and experience of life, we will deposit layers of beautiful and rich gas fields in our hearts, and this gas field is our usual state of mind. No matter how old we become, even if we are facing death, the mentality of goodness and beauty in our hearts will not change. This kind of mentality will make us feel the richness and beauty of life, and feel that there will always be endless beauty in this world. Therefore, we will not be discouraged, pessimistic, and misanthropic because of old age and old age.

"The old man is in ambush, with a thousand miles of ambition, and the martyr is in his twilight years, and his heart is strong. The reason why Cao Cao's famous sentence can move thousands of people is that it can be strong and inspirational, defy the destiny of heaven, and make people grow old and strong, have a young mentality, and never lose their will to serve the old. In fact, in our society, in the process of human beings, how many old men and martyrs have made touching achievements in their twilight years: Yugong was gray-haired and took his children and grandchildren to dig and move mountains; Jiang Taigong began to assist King Wu in establishing the Zhou Dynasty at the age of 72; Wu Chengen was already 72 years old when he officially wrote "Journey to the West"; Harry Lieberman was still playing chess in the park at the age of 80, and began painting under the persuasion of a painter, and a few years later, he became a famous American painter.

In fact, people's mentality is so wonderful, when we feel that we are still young, we will have a kind of passion and motivation to work hard, and feel that we still have many years and processes ahead. On the contrary, when you feel that you are old and that your days are numbered, your heart will be filled with frustration and sorrow. If a person is overwhelmed by depression and sorrow all day long, will he still be happy?

We advocate the beginning of old age and the old heart, but we also have to pay attention to their physical condition and actual situation, after all, when you are older, your physical and mental strength will decline significantly, and you will feel powerless in many aspects. In our twenties, we could unload a truckload of cement by ourselves. However, by the age of forty, I am afraid that I will not be able to carry a bag of cement. Some elite athletes have dominated the sports world for many years, but when they are a little older, they have become yesterday's yellow flowers. People can start writing books and drawing at the age of 70, playing the piano and singing at the age of 80, but they can no longer go skydiving and mountaineering, let alone play football and go on adventures. If you want to live a peaceful life, you can't marry yourself a young and beautiful daughter-in-law like Qi Baishi. A young and beautiful daughter-in-law may be able to trigger sex hormones in older men, but it is not a good medicine. If the elderly men still go to the soup and fire as they did in the past, I am afraid that they will die faster. Aging is a reality that no one can escape. So, although we have to keep a young mind, we can't live in the past. I remember that at the World Cup in Rome, the former football king Pele casually criticized the Brazilian international who played on the field, which caused many people to be dissatisfied. Some people say that he thinks he is the man of the year in Brazilian football, but that is in the past, and the past has long since become history.

Many of us are prone to making the mistake of always flaunting ourselves and criticizing others with our past glories. is like Lian Po, who thinks that as long as he can eat a bucket of rice and ten catties of meat in one meal, he can still be the same as in the past. This is practically impossible. Not to mention that Lian Po is already sixty or seventy years old, he is an ordinary elite athlete, and he will basically retire after the age of thirty. Otherwise, now companies and factories recruit young people under the age of 35, and refuse to recruit middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 35. That's because young people are energetic, clear-headed, and energetic. After the age of 35, physical strength and energy will decline. However, although our physical strength and energy are constantly declining, we must not be discouraged and lose our souls, we should still maintain a strong fighting spirit, maintain a young mentality, and do something in some aspects and do nothing in some aspects.

We are always aging day by day and approaching death day by day, but this is not a reason for us to give up on happiness and pursuit. We see that many people are still working intensively on the eve of the end of their lives, and they associate the value of life with the career they are pursuing, so that their lives can shine in the immortal cause. Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is paralyzed and unable to pronounce. Before his death at the age of 76, he proved the singularity theorem of general relativity and the area theorem of black holes with his miraculous life, and proposed the phenomenon of black hole evaporation and the borderless Hawking universe model, and was one of the most outstanding physicists after Newton and Einstein.

Although we can't be as great as Hawking, we can use the enthusiasm and energy of young people to pursue the values and dreams of life in our limited lives. Youth is not only pink cheeks and red lips and physical strength, it is also a concept of life, a texture, a pure breath and vitality. It means being willing to give up a comfortable life, having the courage to venture out, and relentlessly pursuing it. People are not aging because of the passage of time, but because they have given up the pursuit of life. Sometimes 80-year-olds have more such qualities than 18-year-olds. Time can leave wrinkles on the skin, but the loss of enthusiasm can leave the mind covered with the marks of aging. If you don't have a big ambition, you will turn a person into a body without soul and mind.

If a person wants to be old-hearted, he must have childlike curiosity and the belief in pursuing hopes and ideals. That way, even if you're 80 years old, you still feel like you're only 18 years old.