I've been busy for half my life. I feel that everything I do is as ordinary as eating and sleeping. I can't sleep when the food is not delicious, and I have experienced many unpleasant things. But I haven't done a few things that really make me happy, and even fewer people can insist on doing happy things.
When I was 50, my father-in-law was 88. His old man is good at health care and fitness. After getting up every morning, he will pat his whole body regularly in the bedroom, and then start pacing back and forth in the room, always counting the steps in a low voice. After breakfast, his old man began to go out for a walk on time. After lunch, I rested for about half an hour, and then I looked through some health books he found from the stall on the balcony, put on my glasses and bathed in the warm sun coming in from the window. Very kind and quiet. I went out for a walk around three o'clock.
In the yard of the community, in the park, the father-in-law's slightly stooped figure will not disappear until dinner time.
After dinner, his old man will turn on the TV channel, listen to the opera jokes handed down by his ancestors, and leisurely hum inaudible pronunciation. He is like an obedient pupil, staring at the TV picture in front of him eagerly, and seems to blend in.
At about 8 pm, the old man turned off the TV and began to soak his feet with hot water. Generally speaking, he stayed for about 20 minutes before taking a rest. I don't know how many years he has adhered to good health care and fitness habits.
My father-in-law's health awareness had a great influence on me. It was in this year that my father-in-law and I verbally promised to quit smoking and drinking. My father-in-law lived in my house for half a year, and I gave up for half a year. When my father-in-law came to my house the next year, I was surprised that I could persist. Indeed, after more than 30 years of experience, it takes courage and perseverance to quit smoking and drinking at once.
My daughter is a sensible and filial boy. Seven years ago, she enrolled me in a driving school and told me that learning to drive can bring a lot of convenience and benefits. I don't have to ride an electric car in the wind and rain all day, and I don't have to suck dirty air every day. When you sit in the car, you will no longer be sweating in summer and can't go out in winter. You won't get wet by rain and wind. On weekends, you can also take your grandson out to play, see the beautiful scenery of the surrounding counties and taste the famous local food. It is a happy thing.
In fact, I never knew the scenery of driving, but I didn't give up drinking at that time, and my wife was afraid that I would drive after drinking. At that time, I didn't have enough confidence and courage to take the subject exam. In this way, the driving test was delayed.
When I quit smoking and drinking for almost a year, I had a strong desire to test my driver's license. This time, I have great confidence and determination. I insist on getting up early and practicing driving in the dark. It took about a month and everything paid off. Finally, I passed the subject one exam before my birthday on May1and got my driver's license successfully. I feel that I have done another very happy thing, a rare sense of accomplishment, just like winning the college entrance examination.
As soon as my driver's license was tested, my daughter sent back the Audi I bought for her when I got married.
The car just feels different. If you want to travel on weekends, you don't have to spend time sending your children back to their hometown. You can also take your grandson for a ride, which makes commuting much more comfortable ... everything at home is faster.
In this life, people always solve one problem and then solve another. Happiness and sadness, joy and pain are different, and the ultimate effort is to do something that can be happy.
This year's Spring Festival holiday was delayed because of the epidemic.
At that time, the snail was fighting the epidemic at home, and it was very touching to watch the tall figures and sonorous steps of people in all directions on TV all day, constantly rushing to the battlefield to fight the epidemic. Her (his) revolutionary spirit of self-sacrifice deeply touched my heart, lit the flame that I wanted to cheer for her (his) positive energy, promoted righteousness, expressed, recorded and recited the touching deeds of the retrograde person in words, which made me immediately start writing, and my passion activated the writing cell.
After several months of uninterrupted writing, study, research, writing, repeated and tireless revision and publication, I am very happy and proud, especially when I see my works published in online platforms or paper magazines. It's beyond words. I'm as excited as winning the lottery.
A few days ago, I got two big surprises. The poem "Grandma's Red Packet" won the Silver Award in the World Chinese Children's Rhyme and Children's Poetry Anti-epidemic Competition, and the essay "Grandpa, I'll pick you up in winter" won the "Yuxin Cup" China Prose Competition, which strengthened my courage and determination to continue writing.
Writing about the past, writing about today, writing about the future, so that all experiences and aspirations are recorded in words, promoting righteousness, transmitting positive energy, and making everything in life beautiful are my constant motivation and the highest realm I want to achieve.
Chatting with Zhang Yixia's sister in the creative group that day, she told me, "She started to learn to write prose at the age of 6/kloc-0, and she is a novice in writing." However, her works are constantly published by major online platforms and included in paper magazines. It can be seen that her writing skills are very profound, and the content of her works has strong educational significance and social value, which is a masterpiece.
I joked with my sister: "The level of writing does not depend on your age and the length of writing time, but on your writing talent and destiny. Fate has come, no matter what age and time, you can write good articles by giving full play to your writing talent. " While I encourage her, I am actually encouraging myself.
I recorded my experience of quitting smoking and drinking in words, the process of driving test, the glorious deeds of retrograde people during the epidemic, the warmth between relatives, and the dribs and drabs at work ... I feel that I am doing something meaningful and very happy.
You can't leave some treasure for your child, at least leave him (her) some words that will last forever. This should be the greatest wealth left to future generations, and it is also the wealth that future generations most want to see.
Writing, writing my heart; Do things, do more happy things.
Half my life, I realized something.
Kong Qinggui, a native of Liangshan, Shandong Province, works in the sales department of Shandong Heze Branch of Agricultural Bank of China. Now he is a member of Writers Association of Agricultural Bank of China, an online contract writer of China writers, a member of Shandong Prose Society and a member of Heze Writers Association. He has published many essays, poems and short stories in China Writers Network, China Poetry Network, China Writers Online, China Financial Writers Association, Contemporary Writers Union, Shandong Financial Literature, Jiaodong Prose Society, etc.
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