Today, the unit held a glorious retirement ceremony for six retired veteran comrades. Although I did not personally participate, it was still touching to hear from the colleagues who participated in the meeting and mentioned the speeches of six retired veteran comrades.
I happened to read a speech by Chi Zijian today about her participation in a certain cultural festival - "Using Words to Collect the Reins of the Speed of the Times". Although the theme of the speech at that time, "The Speed of the Times, the Temperature of Words", covered a wide range of topics, as Chi Zijian said: "In other words, it is a continuous group of mountains, and I can't see the edge, but as a participant, I can only go into the mountains, find familiar scenery, and talk about my personal creative experience." Maybe it's just an inconspicuous mountain in the mountains, or a nameless river in the mountains, but what is certain is that such mountains and rivers have been measured by my feet, confirmed by my heart, and carry my body temperature. ”
Seeing this, I feel that it corresponds to the speeches of six retired veteran comrades today. Although they were in different positions before retirement, the road that everyone has traveled is extraordinary, and the scenery they have seen on this extraordinary road is not exactly the same, which is also the heartfelt words of the six old comrades.
In fact, each of us is facing retirement, and we have all had years of burning passion, but after retirement, we have entered a slow-paced life. Someone once said, "Retirement is the life that has just begun." That's right, because retirement is the beginning of a full return to our family.
I remember when I first joined the army, the old squad leader said to me: "From now on, your 180 pounds will be your own." It is true that in the entire military career after that, everything about the individual is not the final word of the individual, whether it is from life or social interaction, whether it is training exercises or vacations and rests, you must first ask for instructions and report, you must not act privately, everything is under the "tight spell". And after retirement, it's basically free.
If you use a state of passion to cope with heavy work before retirement, then after retirement, you must use a flat rhythm to adapt to life. When you reach retirement age, it means that you are no longer young, and you have reached the age of ear shun. At this time, all the organs of the body are not as good as before, and some will give warnings from time to time, and even refuse to work, which requires us to treat them well, and sometimes follow them. If you still treat them with passionate speed and strong rhythm, they may fall apart, and you can only enjoy life with a bland, tepid slow pace.
Today, we're in a fast-paced world, and it's certainly not a bad thing to strive for speed in whatever you're after, but it depends. Retirement life is not greedy for material enjoyment, let alone obsessed with power and money**, do what you can, and live with the rhythm of Tai Chi.