Birthday gifts, forget the weight of age

In the movie "BJ Single Diary • Good Pregnancy Attack", there is a scene that makes the middle-aged audience unforgettable: the heroine Bletchett's 43rd birthday, she is still single, surrounded by colleagues to blow candles, according to the British custom, the cake is inserted with a full 43 candles, crowded with light flames to make the heroine a complex expression, surprised, lost, nervous, hit the dazed, everything. Yes, middle-aged, those who remind you that you are already old, should you miss him, or are you angry with him?

Also on her birthday, Wang Qian's husband gave her a huge three-layer cake with a circle of shou peaches on it. After eating a family dinner with his father and only son, there was still a large part of the cake left, and he had to knock on the door all night to give the fresh cake to the neighbors. The neighbor who opened the door smiled enigmaticly in front of the sticky cake on the paper tray, oh, now the neighbors are not even free of marriage candy and baby eggs, why did a birthday cake come out? Especially when I heard that this was Wang Qian's 45th birthday, the neighbor laughed more delicately - look at this age that is not old and tender, big sister, are you sure that you did not come to sprinkle dog food on purpose?

Wang Qian's husband is also very aggrieved, he spent a lot of effort to arrange a birthday gift for his wife, but it led to her temper for a long time afterwards strange and depressed, what did he do wrong? This careless big brother, the middle-aged man's mind is sensitive and delicate, after the age of 40, what kind of birthday gift can be sent to the heart? It must be a gift to encourage the other party to forget their age.

On Zhong Wen's 47th birthday, the birthday gift prepared for her by Her Husband was to invite her college classmates, who have graduated for 25 years, six women and five men, to sing the song of the Shanghai Rainbow Choir with him. "The hardest song in the world", "What color is the dream of summer", "I like", "Xiao Yao tears fluttering, careful eyes are tired; can our friendship be sublimated and become love", "Ah, what color is the dream of summer?" It's a slightly tiptoe, it's a scream on the shoreline" "I love the aquarium kissed by the glow of the sun on Wednesday evenings, I love the herds of wild ducks, I love the messy bookshelves, the sea of lights in the distance of the breeze terrace, I like the deserted Highway Ninety-Six, I like Takuya Kimura's long hair... I like you, you should know..." The clear and transparent rhyme reverberated in the private room, reminding Zhong Wen of the days when he joined the choir in college. She and her husband, whom she had met in the choir, stood in the front row third from the left, and he stood in the front row fourth from the left, and she remembered that in order to get her attention, he always deliberately slowed down the pace during rehearsals, or sang the wrong tone, and was directed to a beat.

And today, he actually had the heart to invite his former choir friends in the same city to sing these songs scattered with memories of youth everywhere for her, so gentle, flexible, and honest, as if the grapes were still on the branches, the cicadas were still thick, and the lush summer of life had not yet passed. Immersed in the beautiful melody, the weight left by the years suddenly becomes lighter, you will feel the healing effects of love, poetry and hope; the lung capacity is larger, and the outlook on life becomes transparent.

On his 50th birthday, Liang Yanfei was traveling with his husband in Munich. This time, at the suggestion of Mr. Wang, the way they traveled was no longer to stay in a star hotel, but to stay in a youth hostel. Sir means that at our age, the pampered will mentally raise a body of extra flesh, become lazy, depressed, lack of vitality and optimism, should be with young backpackers, try to buy vegetables and cook in places where words do not understand, communicate with young people in the public laundry room by translation software, and try to coexist with multiculturalism. Although living in a noisy six-person room is a big challenge for middle-aged people who live in star hotels, there is nothing that a pair of noise-canceling headphones and an electric kettle cannot solve. On Liang Yanfei's birthday, Mr. Liang, under the guidance of the Austrian guy, successfully baked a Black Forest cake in the kitchen, and the sharers each ate two black beards; the 19-year-old Dutch teenager borrowed his headband and guitar, and Mr. Posing as a performer in an outdoor concert sang "Edelweiss" several times for his wife, why only sang this song? Because he has not played guitar for nearly 30 years, "Edelweiss" is an entry-level guitar etude, ethereal and melodious, with an innocent juvenile heart.

Half a century of life has passed, and it is reasonable that the weight left by time has crushed your shoulders and made your smile humble or sad. However, as long as a little youthfulness is injected into life, such as backpacking that walks and walks, such as the acoustic guitar that has been played before, such as beautiful harmony, healthy hiking and invigorating cycling, long roars in the wilderness and dancing on the beach, the bonfire of life will be rekindled. You will be in a trance: the prime years are still there, can the dreams and goals of life be picked up again?

Source: Xi'an Evening News