I'm 24 years old, and I'm choosing to be an old man at a time when I'm supposed to embrace new things and play the role of a young person.
The timeline was pulled back to three months ago, and I found myself developing severe anxiety attacks because of the severe overtime work every day.
The direct consequence of this situation is that I have gained 8 pounds in a short period of time, and my body, which has always been strong, has a serious endocrine disorder, and I have not slept well for more than a month, and I always wake up in the middle of the night.
I knew I had a serious physical and mental problem, and I had to do something to save myself.
At this time, my mobile phone pushed a message to me, talking about the comfortable life of the elderly after retirement.
I had a bold idea in my head, they are living so happily, why don't I "retire" early and live like an old man.
So in the days that followed, I began to live like an old man.
The elderly don't like to lie in bed, they always get up early every day
Even though I didn't want to, I struggled to get up from the bed, so I slowly noticed that the fireworks in the morning were so **, and the time of the day seemed to have become more;
The old man always does things slowly, one after another is always unhurried
I began to deliberately slow down the progress of my work, finishing one thing at a time, not thinking about the next thing until I finished one thing, and in the process I seemed to slowly reach a state of flow, and most importantly, my mind also calmed down
The elderly rarely play with mobile phones, and in their hearts, mobile phones are just a tool that can be contacted and convenient for life
I also began to slowly put down my mobile phone, and used my spare time to do the things in my list, painting, reading, singing, my life was slowly filled, and after becoming the owner of the mobile phone, I also found that I didn't need so much information;
The elderly like to maintain moderate exercise, go to the park every day for a walk, do tai chi, you can get the body exercised
I began to abandon the exercise plan of "lose seven pounds in seven days" that I had set for myself, and instead took a walk after meals and moved for 10 minutes a day. Over time, I lost weight, and my psychological burden gradually disappeared
Seniors like to keep communicating and interacting with friends and family, and their lives are all down
So I also began to try to get out of the house, choosing to go to the supermarket, visit the vegetable market every day, and go out hiking activities with my friends on the weekend to feel the nature, and I actually found the comfortable feeling of loving nature when I was a child.
In the new journey of becoming an old man, one of the biggest things I felt was "slowly".
Yes, it's slow, and it's wonderful in this slow word.
Before that, I always wanted to make changes urgently and achieve results, I hoped to lose seven pounds a week, develop a good habit of exercising in 20 days, and pass the exam in a month, but these things that seemed to be efficient and quick ended up I didn't succeed.
But as I slowed down, took a short walk every day, wrote a few lines of diary every day, memorized 50 words a day, and stopped trying to force whether I had achieved high goals every day.
Zhu Ziqing wrote in "Hurry": When you wash your hands, the days pass in the basin;When eating, the days pass by in the bowl of rice;When he was silent, he passed in front of his gaze.
Time is flowing, and things are constantly changing, but this change is so detailed that every minute and every second seems so small, that most people think that he is not changing, but everyone knows that all these changes are in a "slow" word.
Question the elderly, understand the elderly, and become an elderly.
Yes, at the age of 24, I'm going to go into senior life one step ahead.
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