After retirement, no matter how high the pension is, once you set foot in the rural hometown, you will encounter a series of unexpected challenges.
After retirement, even if you have a good pension, returning to your rural hometown is often a heavy blow. The hometown is no longer what it used to be, the family and friendship are indifferent, the living facilities are simple, and people are depressed. This is the reason why many elderly people who grew up in cities are reluctant to return to their hometowns.
The beautiful memories of my hometown when I was a child, just like the scene when the writer Mo Yan was a child, a family of more than a dozen people sat around the courtyard for dinner, which is intoxicating. He once secretly hid his food under the covers, and the taste of enjoying it alone is still unforgettable.
However, time flies, and your homeland has long since changed, and when you return to your hometown, you will find that most of your fellow countrymen are not enthusiastic about your arrival.
Because you haven't seen each other for many years, you don't have much in common anymore, the relationship is gradually estranged, and the accelerated pace of life also leads to people's disregard for neighborly relationships.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in memory, with the death of the older generation, has become an untouchable dream. In the face of this cold interpersonal relationship, you can only sigh quietly in your heart.
Even with the wish to return to your roots, the living conditions in the countryside are prohibitive, and the phenomenon of open and secret fighting and comparison in the village abounds, and it is difficult for you, an outsider, to fit in.
What's even more frustrating is that as an elderly person, you can't be cared for here. Accustomed to urban heating, running water and other facilities, you find it difficult to adapt to the humble environment of the countryside, and eventually you have to choose to leave.
What also makes your heart ache is that many old classmates and old neighbors have also worked hard outside for many years, although they want to relive the past with them, but everyone is scattered at the end of the world, and few people will come back to get together.
The dream reunion eventually came to naught. Even siblings have made their homes in the city, and you, a person who has returned to his hometown in his old age, can hardly hide the traces of old age.
Your country is no longer what it used to be, and you are no longer the same person you used to be. Those innocent and exciting memories are now gone, and everything fades away with the passage of time.
We can only be relieved and adapt to the world. We may miss our homeland from time to time, but we need to learn to accept it and learn to let go of all inappropriate attachments and memories.