Life after retirement should have been leisurely, but for Lao Zhang, this is not the case. His world began to blur at the moment of retirement, as if a thin veil had been placed between him and the rapidly spinning world. The pace of his life slowed down, but everything around him continued to accelerate.
Deciding to break this dull life, Lao Zhang picked up the phone and dialed Lao Li, who was his friend for many years, and they had experienced countless ups and downs together.
"Lao Li, life after retirement is too boring, let's go on a trip together!" Lao Zhang's voice was full of anticipation.
Lao Li hesitated for a moment and replied, "Okay, it's true that we haven't gone out together for a long time." ”
The two discussed it for a while and finally decided to go to Yunnan, where they had backpacked together when they were young. They remember how blue the sky was, how white the clouds were, how pure and beautiful everything was.
However, when they actually embark on the journey, Lao Zhang finds that everything is not as he imagined. The noise of the plane irritated him, and the hustle and bustle of the young people alienated him, and he began to realize that the world was no longer the world they were familiar with.
They got off the plane in Kunming and were ready to start their journey. However, Lao Zhang began to feel uncomfortable, his steps were no longer brisk, and his mood was no longer relaxed. He looked at Lao Li and noticed that he had also become reticent, and the estrangement between them began to become more and more obvious.
One night, they were having dinner in a small restaurant, and Lao Zhang finally couldn't help but speak: "Lao Li, have we become strangers?" ”
Lao Li was silent for a while, and then sighed: "Maybe the times have changed, but we haven't changed." ”
This sentence made Lao Zhang fall into deep thought, and he began to think about where the estrangement between them came from. Is it because they have a different pace of life, or because they see the world differently?
In the following journey, they tried to find their old tacit understanding, they went to see the ancient city of Lijiang together, climbed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain together, they tried to talk and laugh like when they were young, however, they could not ignore the gap between them.
After the trip, Lao Zhang returned home, he began to try to understand this new world, he began to learn how to use smartphones, how to use social media, he began to try to understand the lifestyle of young people.
He dialed Lao Li's phone again: "Lao Li, I figured it out, we can't be abandoned by the times, we have to learn to adapt to the world." ”
Lao Li smiled: "I've been waiting for your words for a long time." ”
Since then, Lao Zhang and Lao Li's lives have intersected again, they went to computer classes together, went to participate in community activities for the elderly together, they found a common topic again, and once again found the tacit understanding they once had.
Their stories tell us that no matter how times change, no matter what difficulties we encounter, as long as we are willing to adapt, learn, and understand, we will be able to find our own place, and we will be able to find common ground with others.