A few days ago, when I was scrolling through Xiaohongshu, I saw a piece of news about a 90-year-old man in a small village who passed away, because she had no children and no daughters under her knees, so she could only be replaced by the village to help deal with the aftermath. And the old man saves his life, he did not enjoy a good day in his life, and what he left behind after his death turned out to be a pile of rolled up banknotes that he had saved over the years
1. The life of a widow and orphan
In China, in fact, there are many rural elderly people who have never been married in their lives, have no children and no daughters, and earn a meager income by farming, doing handicrafts, picking up garbage, etc. Some of them have never been out of the village in their lives, and the farthest place they have been to is to catch the market. Although some elderly people are married and have children, as their children grow up, almost all of them will leave the countryside and go to the big cities to work hard and live.
Most of the children who work hard and live in big cities will not return to these left-behind old people, and some filial children can come back to see the elderly during the New Year's holidays, but some are not filial, they may go out of the countryside and will never choose to go home for the rest of their lives, and they can no longer remember their relatives in their hometowns and villages far away.
In fact, such a phenomenon is indeed very sad. I vaguely remember that one year when I went back to my grandparents' house for the New Year, there was an old lady next to me, who lived alone in a dilapidated bungalow. We walked into her kitchen and found that the rice was moldy, but she was reluctant to throw it away. There were a few chickens in the yard, and she said that her son and daughter-in-law came back during the New Year and killed them to eat.
However, according to my grandparents, her son and daughter-in-law have not returned home for many years. One day after lunch, my parents and I took some washed strawberries for my grandmother to eat. The old grandmother's eyes were full of doubts: "What is this red thing?"It's weird to look at!Is this something to eat?"It turned out that she hadn't even seen strawberries. I endured my sadness and stuffed 200 yuan under her pillow, hoping that she would not live so poor in the future.
2. Pay attention to the elderly who are lonely and widowed
Such poignant news is happening all the time in the country we live in. Under the comment area of this news, some people said that although the part of the inheritance left by the old man is not much, it should also be reasonably distributed. First of all, it should be given to the relatives of this old man, after all, there is a blood relationship, and it can be regarded as the return of the goods to the original owner. Some people disagreed, because the people in the village understood that when the old man was still alive, he was actually very lonely and had no relatives to deal with, and now that the old man is gone, logically speaking, it should be distributed to the people who help in the village instead of unheard of relatives.
In addition to these remarks, some people think that it is better to take out some of this money and buy some ingots, gold coins, houses, etc. for burning paper, and when the old man is the first seven, everyone will burn it to her together, hoping that she can suffer less and enjoy more happiness in the Elysium over there. In addition, this money is also enough to find a better place for the elderly to be buried, and it is always possible to seek a little stability after death.
In retrospect, in fact, we pay too little attention to such lonely and widowed old people. If as a child, your parents are not around, in your hometown, do you often go back to see them during the Chinese New Year?Whether it's okay to greet them is a question we need to think about as children.
As a country, have the relevant departments really brought benefits to these lonely and widowed old people?Whether some policies for the benefit of the people have really reached their side, whether it is inconvenient for them to see a doctor, and whether the village committee has fulfilled its responsibility to take care of them are questions that the state needs to think about.
I think that if we think about all aspects in place, there will be fewer lonely and widowed elderly people like this, they will no longer live for others, and they will know how to be kind to themselves, so that they can live less hard in their lifetime, save less money, spend more on themselves, be healthy and live a long life in the land they like.
Third, the sense of security that Chinese generally lack
Why does this always happen?In fact, in my opinion, it is because Chinese people generally lack a sense of security in their bones. How can this be seen?The last three generations of our parents' generation are most likely farmers. In those days, there were some people who couldn't even provide food and clothing. Grandpa Yuan Longping's patented technology saved most of the people who were suffering from famine and also maintained the country's food security.
However, people who are used to being poor and thrifty are still difficult to change the traditional thinking in their bones. In the past, when I didn't go home, my grandparents rarely bought meat for themselves, and usually ate it once a week, and their money was always in the passbook and not spent it indiscriminately. It seems that when I see more money in my passbook, I feel more secure.
Those lonely and widowed old people are probably like this, spending their lives in poverty, wanting to save money, and the more they save, the more they feel that there is hope and hope for their lives. Earning money with your own hands can also give you a sense of accomplishment and happiness. Even some ordinary peasants can save hundreds of thousands, not to mention some old cadres.
In fact, they rarely think about it, people always have to leave this world, if the day they leave, the money is not spent, will they regret it a little?In their ordinary and hard life, they don't know who they are busy for, and they don't know who they are working for, as if they are just working hard like that, and they don't feel hard.
In any case, I hope that the state will pay more attention to the group of lonely and widowed elderly, and think more about how to ensure their basic life, so that they can also feel the convenience of modernization. Grassroots organizations should always comfort their bodies and bring more help, I think only in this way can the society be more harmonious and happy.
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