莫等閒，耆英

 

網上收到以下一篇有關"THE ELDERLY"的人生歷程：

 

 "We were born in the 40-50-60."

 "We grew up in the 50-60-70's."

 "We studied in the 60-70-80."

 "We were dating in the 70-80-90's."

 "We got married and discovered the world in the 70-80-90's."

 

 We venture into the 80-90.

 We stabilize in the 2000s.

 "We got wiser in the 2010s."

 And we are going firmly through 2020.

 

 "Turns out we've lived through EIGHT different decades..."

 "TWO different centuries..."

 TWO different millennia...

 

 "We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long-distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world, we have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp."

 

 "From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, and then to HD TV."

 We went to the Video Club and now we watch Netflix.

 

 'We got to know the first computers, punched cards, diskettes and now we have gigabytes and megabytes in hand on our cell phones or iPad."

 

 We wear shorts throughout our childhood and then long pants, oxfords, Bermuda shorts, etc.

 

 "We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, H1N1 flu and now COVID-19."

 

 We rode skates, tricycles, invented cars, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline or diesel cars and now we ride hybrids or 100% electric.

 

 "Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had!"

 

 They could describe us as “exennials”;  people who were born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

 

 "We're kind of Yaheseen-it-all."

 

 Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.

 

 It is our generation that has literally adapted to “CHANGE”.

 

 A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE." A precious and very true message that I received from a friend.

 

*TIME DOES NOT STOP*

 

       _"Life is a task that we brought ourselves to do at home._

 

       _When you look... it's already six in the afternoon;  when you look... it's already Friday;  when one looks... the month is over, when one looks... the year is over;  when one looks... 50, 60 and 70 years have passed!_

       _When you look... we no longer know where our friends are._

       _When you look... we lost the love of our life and now, it's too late to go back._

            Do not stop doing something you like due to lack of time.  Do not stop having someone by your side, because your children will soon not be yours, and you will have to do something with that remaining time, where the only thing that we are going to miss will be the space that can only be enjoyed with the usual friends.  That time that, unfortunately, never returns..."_

 *The day is today!*

 *WE ARE NO LONGER AT AN AGE TO POSTPONE ANYTHING.*

 

這篇文章對我這1949年出生的耋翁很貼切，我這一代確是很獨特，是經歷多方面轉變的一代。但當人生活到70歲後，身體機能便明顯老化及退化，包括體力、耐力、集中力、記憶力、眼力、腳力及聽覺，而身體的毛病也漸浮現，包括心臟血管、呼吸系統、泌尿系統、肝臟、消化系統、膝蓋及關節等等。正是：

 

一晚通宵   唔捱得

兩腳無力   唔行得

三篤夜尿   唔忍得

四粒藥丸   唔少得

五更醒咗   唔瞓得

六種骨痛   唔郁得

七種凍嘢   唔食得

八卦小氣   唔激得

九屎垃圾   唔捨得

十分鐘後   唔記得

 

活到這把年紀，不要再蹉跎歲月了，想要做的事便立即進行，不要遲疑，因明天存在太多我們不能控制的變數。時間是不等人的，而我們這一代已沒有太多時候可以待閒了。 活在當下！