On "Life goes on, Love goes on"

I met an old gentleman recently, and when I saw him, I thought of another person by the way. A line of words "endless life, endless love" floated in my mind. These two people can call themselves these eight words.

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My daughter's piano teacher invites students and their families to her home for family concerts twice a year. Compared with the formal performance of the music school, the family concert is more a gathering than a competition or competition, so it is relaxed and natural, and has a lot of fun. At the concert, the little dolls watching meat knocked on the piano one by one; Or youthful boys and girls are slightly shy and play quietly; Of course, there is also a daughter, a micro-girl who already knows that she is shy and stage fright, but she is not ashamed. She felt beautiful when she stumbled.

Parents will bring some sweet and salty snacks, and with their own thoughts, the teacher's husband will make tea and coffee. After the performance, everyone ate and chatted, praising each other's children, praising each other's snacks really to their liking, and surprised to say that compared with six months ago, the children have grown a lot, and the good topics are endless and steaming. It has been six years since the concert was held on Christmas Eve at dawn in early spring, which made the atmosphere more fresh and sweet.

An old gentleman appeared in the performance before Christmas last year. At first, he thought he was the grandfather of one of the children. Unexpectedly, it was him who stood out after the teacher reported playing the track. The old gentleman didn't curtsy or bow to everyone like a piano boy, just sat down, adjusted the piano stool and pressed the keys without looking up. A short piece of music, press it and get up. Look at it with your eyes and everyone will sit down. Everyone's applause is very adult, strong and dense enough, but not so hot.

I saw the old gentleman at the concert last week, and this time he was very generous. When it was his turn, he stood there and introduced the tracks to everyone. It was a song translated from Swedish into Finnish at the beginning of last century, and it was a sleeping song that my mother sang to the doll. Sit down, adjust the piano stool, adjust the lights, lay the piano score, and start. Press the key one by one, and it takes him about the same time to introduce the song.

I didn't talk to the old gentleman, because he didn't have any children to praise, nor did he urge the children or be urged to practice the piano, leaving me nowhere to talk. But he is really the one I want to talk to most in the audience.

How old is he? I don't know, about seventy years old. What am I familiar with old people in their sixties and seventies in China? Taking care of grandchildren, watching TV, playing mahjong, busy with housework, all kinds of exercise "Dafa", all kinds of health "sharp weapon" ...............................................................................................................................

Can you do more? Retirement or starting to provide for the aged opens a new stage of life. The physical condition is irreversible and slowly declining, and the scope of interpersonal communication is getting smaller and smaller. Many things are beyond my ability and brain power, and my children have started their own lives. What about themselves? Can we only passively wait for the instructions of life and actively accept "let nature take its course"? Can the content of life be adjusted, modified, broadened and enriched?

Race against time, maybe you won?

Can life be interesting? Can life be meaningful? Can you be born, live and still love?

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The second person is definitely a person who is born, alive and in love.

He is my former colleague. 20 14 was admitted to the Department of Theology of Helsinki University and began to study theology. He is very proud, because his son was admitted to the Agriculture and Forestry Department of Hoda University in the same year, "Let's go to school together in autumn"! Yes, father and son are at the same level. He was 55 years old that year.

The University of Helsinki is famous for its strict theology. If you want to be a priest in the future, you must have a master's degree or above, that is, at least five years. If the study is not smooth, the study period is unknown. He is very proud. "I will graduate at the age of 60. At that time, I will be a priest and you will be a deacon. We are definitely good colleagues with happy cooperation. "

Then he began to work full-time and go to school full-time. Finland has a generous, positive and healthy attitude towards employment. When employees go to study, they will try their best to cooperate and adjust to help them continue their studies. In his place, that is to say, although the leader transferred him to a relatively relaxed position and arranged his work according to his curriculum, full-time work plus full-time study is no joke.

In this way, a year later, unfortunately, he suddenly got a lumbar disc herniation. Surgery, failure, reoperation, nerve injury during the operation, so painful that I couldn't even put on my vest for a while. People are out of shape and much older, more than a year. Can't work, can't study.

But now he is back on the battlefield, working full-time and studying full-time. The last time I saw him, he happened to come home from school, reading a book on the bus with a book in his hand. There are many small notes on the book, which are drawn with pencils. He is a student. Ask him if everything is all right. "Well, I can work all day now, and I may graduate on time."

More than three years ago, I asked him why he had a good job and wanted to go to college and study. I started studying at the age of 55 and graduated at the earliest age of 60. At the age of 65, I can apply for retirement according to law. He said that because he likes theology, although he has done many careers in his life, he still yearns to be a priest, so he goes to school and "can't graduate until he retires." What can I do but respect me?

Life is not short, and certainly not long. Is there anything you used to like or like now, but because you have no time and money, you have no chance to learn? Photography, handicrafts, music, language, dance, writing, cooking ... whatever. If you can't learn, what if you learn slowly? When we reach middle age or old age, when our life has reached a plateau and we don't need to get a job and material life through study and education like teenagers, can we still keep learning? Can you study for your own interests, not for your "learning ability" or its "usefulness"?

I hope I can be like my former colleagues when I am not retired, and like the old gentleman who is still pressing buttons after studying for a year when I retire.