Before it was too late, take your parents on a trip

A few days are set aside each year to take my parents on a trip. No husband, no children, just myself and my parents.

This year, it was Beijing that took them. Play is the attractions that everyone who goes to Beijing will go, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Gongwang Mansion, the Bird's Nest, the Summer Palace...

Every time they travel, they will lie about the welfare of the unit, otherwise, they will refuse because they are upset about the price.

Before going to Beijing, my father asked, by car or train? You answer, we do high-speed rail. It's a little different from the train.

His impression of the train still stayed on the green-skinned train, four people sitting against each other, playing poker or chatting; many people did not have seats, and the aisles and toilets were full of people, dirty, chaotic, and crowded. The air is dirty, there are smokers, there are drinkers...

When you leave, you arrive at the station half an hour earlier than usual, teach them to pick up tickets by themselves, take them to eat at the station, and let them fully feel the difference between today's high-speed rail station and the old railway station.

Today's high-speed rail environment is what people in their time could not think of, he said, I did not expect that today's trains are so clean, air conditioning, not crowded, the toilet is still so big.

They went through a lot of things in that era that you couldn't imagine, suffered and suffered. They've come along, you've grown up, they're old, and the rest of the time, it's time for you to take them and feel the changes they've changed.

After going to Beijing, they finally saw Tiananmen Square, which often appeared in the news, and the expression of excitement was irrepressible, like a child. You take pictures of them, and they don't like to take pictures, and they stand in front of your camera cooperatively.

Mother looked at the bracelet in a shop selling cloisonné in Wangfujing, and you obviously saw that she liked the bracelet, and did not hesitate to pay for it for her, and you could see her joy from the heart, but she still immediately converted the money for the bracelet into how long she could eat if she bought cabbage.

In that big city, they obviously have a cramped and uneasy feeling of not being able to keep up.

They don't dare to leave you, even go to a toilet, you let them walk around casually first, they all stay where they are, they don't dare to go alone, afraid that they won't find you in the blink of an eye. When we went to eat at a better restaurant, they stood in the doorway and hesitated for half a day and said, let's go to the roadside stall to eat.

You live in your hometown for no more than ten days a year, and you ignore the extent to which your parents are aging. It was also this trip to Beijing that you found that your mother's steps were already a little slow, and her legs would hurt when she walked for a long time, and she had to sit down and rest for a long time.

When she climbed the Great Wall, she said, I'm not going, you go. You persuaded her that since she had come, she should go up and have a look.

It is your father who reminds you that your mother's legs are not good, and you can't go up. Let her wait at the bottom.

You don't even know, you don't know that she has begun to have leg pain. How much neglect of parents must be to notice their changes.

Don't want them to have regrets, you take them to buy cable car tickets, accompany them to the cable car up, symbolically climb for a while and then come down.

When they went to the Forbidden City, the two of them were in front of a photo studio at the entrance of the Forbidden City, watching others wearing the clothes of the emperor and empress taking pictures. You walked over, handed over the money, had them put on the clothes of the emperor and empress, sat down on the dragon chair, and took a few pictures. They looked at the picture with joy, like children, with a joy that was easily satisfying.

When they went to The Gong King's Mansion, they talked in amazement, it turned out that the house where He Yan lived was so big, the original TV stage was not fake, unexpectedly, we also came to the place where the TV was staged.

We grow up and our parents get older. All they have now is you, and now.

So, please don't always be busy and have no time to ignore your parents and let them grow old alone, because they really can't afford to wait.

We used to say that when I made money in the future, my parents would live a good life and build them a big house. Then, after graduation, we, getting married and having children, are always dragging on one excuse after another, and our parents always say, go out and spend those unjust money for what? It's better to stay at home honestly.

In fact, you know, they also have a lot of regrets in their lives, a lot of unfulfilled dreams, and they are also eager to go out and see the outside world, and they hope to come back with you and take some photos. Then proudly show off to the neighbors that my daughter can go out and take us on the high-speed train and make a plane to go out to play. You know, in that small village that is still a little bit isolated, flying is still very far away for many people, and it is impossible to hope. So when you take them on a plane to Yunnan after the trip, in their hometown, they talk excitedly for a week.

You always say that life should have some useless little fun, there should be a trip that you can go. However, you don't know that your parents have lived a lifetime, and you should also let their lives have some useless little fun, poetry and distance. No one will stay with us for the rest of our lives, especially our parents, who are getting older. Their lifetimes are no longer long, no longer distant, and they can't afford what you call "wait until I have money...", "Wait until I have time...". Yes, they can't afford to wait.

Once, you thought that your parents' thoughts were soil, and you felt that they had lost your face, and now, you finally understand that their life is a life of suffering. All their actions should be forgiven.

Once, you promised your 70-year-old grandmother that when I had a summer vacation, I would accompany you to the county town. But when you have a summer vacation, what you said to your grandmother is that when I work and have money, I will buy you new clothes and take you to Beijing... Grandma was also waiting for you to take her to Beijing. However, she did not wait for you to take her to Beijing and left you forever. You will never again have the opportunity to fulfill your promises, and you will never again have the opportunity to do filial piety to your grandmother.

Once, you promised your 72-year-old grandfather that when I was on vacation, I would take you to the hospital to check your leg and try to cure it completely. When it's cured, I'll take you on a plane and play all over the country. Grandpa left you as well, not waiting for you to take him to the hospital for examination, not waiting for you to take him on a plane.

Now that your parents have reached the age of flower armor, you have finally learned not to promise, but to fulfill filial piety with actions. Take your parents with you on the walk-and-go journey of your life, hold their hands, and let them see how the world has changed and is wonderful.

Every time I see my parents, I feel like they're older than before. The old speed is beyond your imagination, the hair is white, the back is slightly hunched, and the body is not as big as before.

The other day, they came to see you from their hometown, and you took them to see "To Catch a Demon", which was an experience they had never had before, the first time they entered the cinema, the first time they saw a 3D movie.

Because of their limited knowledge and limited fresh information they receive in their hometown, they can't understand "To Catch a Demon", and you keep explaining it to them and telling them the storyline of the movie. After the movie, you ask them how they feel, and they still shake their heads and say they don't understand. At that moment, the heartache spreads throughout your body in an instant. When you were a child, your parents, who were invincible and omnipotent in your mind, were so old that they couldn't even understand movies.

In this life, you can not spend much time with your parents. More than ten years is a blink of an eye, and your parents, how many more decades can there be?

When it's still too late, spend more time with them, just like they did when you were a child.

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