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What does retirement mean to you?
Some people think that retirement is to lie in a rocking chair basking in the sun, sit in the yard and talk about home, or help children with children to look forward to the day; some people think that retirement is to leave the job and start a period of pension life; others think that retirement is to eat, sleep, sleep, and be in a daze, as if life has seen the end.
After retirement, there are still endless possibilities in life. But the deer who wants to share with you today, who is called the world's oldest dance goddess, Irene Cramer, does not have the word "retirement" in her dictionary of life.
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Bonding dance
A lifetime of dancing
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1914, Eileen Kramer was a mischievous and occasional mischievous persona, but Irene was versatile from an early age, when her dream was to become a great opera singer.
After watching a ballet performance by the Venus Company, her heart was greatly touched. She decided to be a great dancer, she was 24 years old, it was a bit late for the dance, but she decided to start right away!
Leg press, ligament pull, forward flip, stand on the tip... She chose to redouble her efforts to make up for her age disadvantage. She didn't have any background in ballet dancing, but she decided to give it a try, and when she and many girls with dance skills competed for a place in a modern dance in Australia that year, they were unexpectedly admitted.
Everything started from scratch, but in just three years, she became an official dancer for the modern dance company and began touring the world, at the age of 80, 90, 100, this jump is a lifetime.
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Keep it up
The years do not grow old
At the age of 100, Irene personally choreographed a modern dance for herself and named it "Early", and the video was released and became a global hit. For her, there is only one simple idea: as long as you live, you must dance, life is still early!
At the age of 103, she was still choreographing for the stage play and playing a 17-year-old princess in a stage play, which once attracted countless voices of discussion, and even some people publicly expressed their inability to accept it.
However, when the curtain slowly opened, Irene blocked all doubts with dance, and the agility and femininity of the 17-year-old girl were vividly interpreted by this centenarian. Someone said: "She wasn't 17 years old, she was a 17-year-old girl at that moment." ”
"I'm not old, I just lived in this world for a long time and learned something along the way." It was a phrase she often hung up on.
Age has never been an obstacle for her, but as she has gotten older, she has become more free, more enjoyable to explore, to try: "Almost every day, I think about my next attempt. ”
When she lived in a nursing home, she insisted on writing every day, day by day, and when she was more than 100 years old, she also published 3 books of her own.
At the age of 104, she began to think about painting again, without rigid dogma, from the wildness of Matisse to the dreams of Chagall, from the innocence of Renault to the freedom of Picasso, completely from the heart, painting whatever you want.
At the age of 106, she participated in the creation of her first short film, telling her life through film and television: "I really feel that at this age, my life is still blossoming. ”
To keep up with the times, she also learned to use her mobile phone and opened her own Facebook, which features many photos of her and young people.
"People often ask me what it's like to be old, I don't feel anything, I'm still the same as before." Irene is very calm about age, and she never sees herself as an old man.
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Dreams never die
Life goes on
Last November, Irene celebrated her 107th birthday, the same year she completed her new dance, The God Tree.
Eucalyptus trees, fig trees, kingfishers, smells, colors, wind sounds, sunshine... What she will feel in nature, is shown through dance.
At the age of 107, she has white hair, her skin is no longer tight, the wrinkles and age spots on her face are clearly visible, one eye is no longer visible, she is no longer young, no longer beautiful, no longer delicate.
However, when she dances in nature, breathing in and out, laughing, there is still the beauty of penetrating the years, and the vitality of life itself is released in her dance posture, so that the viewer's heart also becomes soft unconsciously.
Erin is also often asked the question: Where do you get so much energy? Is there any secret to being able to dance at such an old age?
In fact, there is no secret, it is love, as she said, "I still have enthusiasm."
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JunFanghua Elderly Community
Enjoy retirement
For most people, another reason for fear of aging is the fear of being eroded by time and showing off their faces in an old dragon clock. But in fact, beauty and fashion have nothing to do with age, and even if you have white hair and a wrinkled face, you can still have the right to beauty.
Age has nothing to do with experience, but youth is the mentality. Retirement is not the end of life, every elder wants to live for themselves, all hope to continue to pursue their dreams, create a joyful life, need a stage and opportunity to continue to shine, heat and show themselves.
The Junfanghua Elderly Community is equipped with Fanghua College, which enriches the retirement life of the elderly through various courses such as art, calligraphy and painting, handicrafts, etc., and provides a stage for every elderly who is eager to keep pace with the times, eager to absorb fresh knowledge and eager to show themselves.
The elderly can not only choose their favorite courses, but also choose what they are good at, show themselves, and become a teacher in the college, sharing with other partners and making progress together.
Age is just a number, what we really need to care about is how to maintain a young mentality, even if the years are relentless, but we can adjust our mentality and break the age limit.
As Grandma Erin says, "Even at this age, I still like to look good, put on makeup, dress well, I like to put on lipstick, and I'm still deeply moved by something." ”
Age is never a boundary, as long as your soul is interesting, you have a beautiful appearance.