Creation wins the joy of old age
Author | Feng Enchang
Everyone wants to live comfortably and happily in their old age, but it is really difficult to practice in their later years. When I entered the 80s, I got out of the predicament by playing my literary hobby. The old man is still in good health, leisure can not be idle, big work and can not be tired, with a lifelong hobby, by the sex to play, come to the interest to dry, a little tired on the rest, let the mentality and emotions stable, so that daily life has hope. Hobbies are the beautiful spiritual world of life, and playing hobbies is to achieve beautiful pursuits. After graduating from middle school, I decided that my life goal was to become a poet and writer, and I have been insisting on it for more than 60 years, and I am still writing at the age of 87. Basically do it every day to write, as soon as you write it, you will enter the new world of life, as soon as you write your mind, you will wake up, as soon as you write about the pain of chronic diseases, you will alleviate it, and as soon as you write about the god of music, you will come. So far, I can write a group of poems or a thousand words a day, and if I don't write, I will be irritable in my heart, and if I don't write, I will hurt here and itch there, and I can't be quiet. If you think about it carefully, you will conclude that it is literary creation that has won the pleasure of old age.
People have hobbies, as long as they have strong perseverance and persevere to the end, they can taste the sweetness and win the joy of old age. Some of my friends, who worked at the same time as me, also had a hobby of writing and had already created semi-famous achievements. After changing the job position, I put aside my pen because of my busyness, and I couldn't "pick up" my writing until I retired, which not only could not have fun, but also caused troubles in my later years. Hobbies should also be used as a career, to study and explore to the end, and to insist on writing until old age. When I work, there are also particularly busy years, news, culture, affairs work, very busy, do not take a nap at noon, night shift until twelve o'clock at night, no holidays, accompany celebrities and reporters to visit all day, and some Xinhua reporters have accompanied me for photography for more than a month. During such busy times, I did not forget my hobbies, took time to observe life, interviewed new events, and integrated the manuscripts and information of the reports into the literature as much as possible. Insist on two drafts for three days, and achieve long-term line adoption. Writing is a long-term exercise, afraid of interruption in intense writing, and the space for stopping writing is endlessly extended until it disappears completely.
Some friends commented that at my age, there is generally no such spirit of writing, writing every day, publishing every day, often using, publishing one or two books a year, enough busy work, but I always insisted on it. I really turned the writing process into joy and happiness, originally writing all day long, bowing my head, and my cervical spine could not stand it. Because I paid attention to the combination of work and rest, although the organs are degenerated, they can still be used normally. The daytime weather is good, the son pulls the mountains and rivers, very funny observation of life, forget the tiredness, produce interest, as usual as when he was young, get the material of life, return to the city should be immediately rested, can be addicted to writing, inspiration from time to time jumped out, non-writing can not. My writing process, without the feeling of hardship, a group of small poems, a thousand words of prose, an hour or two even writing with hair to complete the task. Writing with a pen, it seems to have taken a good medicine, and soon entered the immortal realm, the theme, structure, language, their own outwards, do not have to think of ways to "squeeze" out, is on the screen of the heart, very comfortable to flow out. Writing has become my sense of happiness, peace of mind, happiness and comfort, and I have developed a life of self-amusement in my later years.
People are old, and in their old age, they are most afraid of loneliness and loneliness, perhaps less family affection, friendship, personal love, personal no longer have a little hobby, life is a little difficult. Therefore, in a person's life, it is very important to stick to the hobby until old, especially if he is better than others and is good at helping others. I think that when people are old, their children care about filial piety, and they have a few close friends, which is the source of happiness in their old age. The concept of life has changed in old age, the money has faded, the desire to run forward has decreased, and many things have become more satisfied than in the past. For example, I have been engaged in literary creation all my life, the hopes of my youth have been realized, the achievements of creation have basically been achieved, and the children's filial piety to the elderly has been satisfied with food, clothing, shelter and transportation. The rest of the pursuit is to be older and better, and to be a little more famous. Therefore, in the case of all aspects of the ability, willing to make some contributions to the society, like to help others, do the young people's Bole, self-funded publication of books to give people, comment on the works of young people, give lectures to young authors, etc., do these things feel a certain sense of glory, is an old man should do the strength and contribution.
Time flies, the sun and the moon fly, and life is a hundred years in the blink of an eye. Recalling one's life and engaging in literary creation is like a river rushing into the sea, and people are about to reach the age of 90. The brilliant things you want to do can't be achieved. In my old age, I felt like a dream, the motherland gave me the green mountains and rivers of Yimeng hometown, countless beautiful pictures, penetrated into my poetic pen, I have been very satisfied. As an old man engaged in creation, I hope that the younger generation, friends who are thriving in youth, hope that everyone will stick to their careers, stop writing, produce new works, continue to climb the peak of creation, and strive for a prestigious old age, a rich old age, and a healthy and happy old age. The mountains are often beckoning, the green water flows and inspires people, the peach blossoms smile and dew, the beautiful scenery of the hometown inspires the spirit, the party's literary and artistic policies point the way, and this prosperous world contributes more, and in his old age he is a happy god.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.