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In ancient times, a person could live to be 70 years old, which was scarce, as evidenced by poetry - life is rare for 70 years.
However, in today's society, it is very common to live to the age of 70, and there are many elderly people around who are in good health and live to be 8 or 90 years old.
Therefore, at the age of 70, life still has a long way to go, and we must not relax our requirements for ourselves and love life.
So, learn to enrich yourself. Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
Just like there is a line in "The First Half of My Life": "No one will become the safe haven of this life and this life as you think, only yourself is your last refuge." ”
To enrich oneself is not to eat and drink well, not to drink thousands of yuan of liquor to enjoy, nor to sleep until you wake up naturally every day, but to choose a healthy lifestyle and live for yourself.
When people are over 70, the best way to "enrich" themselves is not to eat, drink, and sleep, but to do a good job at 4 points
01. Insist on reading and enriching your temperament.
The ancients said: "There is poetry and writing in the belly."
No matter how beautiful the face is, it will eventually grow old, but a temperament can be retained forever, like a bottle of old wine, which exudes more and more charming fragrance.
Zeng Guofan also said:
"People's temperament, because they are born, is difficult to change, but only reading can change their temperament."
Therefore, when you are older, you should also read more books and study more. If you have time, you can go to the library in the city to read more books, or buy some good books and put them on the bookcase at home, and taste them slowly.
02. Control your diet and enrich your body.
When people are old, eating and drinking will only increase the burden on the body.
Those frozen products, milk tea, and drinks outside, try not to drink them if you can, and drink warm boiled water when you are thirsty.
When you are older, you should not have too much desire to eat and drink, and you must learn to stay away from tobacco and alcohol, especially not to drink excessively.
There are many old people around me, saying that they want to maintain their health, but they just can't quit drinking, and they can't restrain themselves when they become addicted to alcohol.
03. Insist on exercising and enriching your physique.
After the age of 70, people should recuperate, and they should also combine appropriate exercise. But be careful, never exercise excessively, and don't participate in some strenuous exercise.
Because after the age of 70, our body is actually very fragile, if you often do some high-intensity movements, it is easy to cause physical damage, causing irreversible damage.
The author's advice is that the best exercise is to walk, walk slowly, or do simple aerobics, the purpose of exercise is to maintain physical vitality, 30 minutes a day.
Some sports that look cool, such as marathons, rock climbing, and cycling, are not suitable for people of our age anymore, so try not to try them.
04. Streamline social networking and enrich the circle.
When many people are young, they may have the idea that the more friends they have, the more face they have, and the more colorful their lives, and the more friends they have, the more they will have a way out.
But after the age of 70, we don't need to make too many friends, we have to learn to streamline our social interactions and enrich our circles. True friends, one or two are enough.
There are too many friends, and sometimes it takes a lot of time and energy to maintain the relationship between friends, especially some friends who drink and meat, which are ineffective social interactions.
Streamline your social interactions, focus more time and energy on your personal life, take care of your family, gather for dinner with your relatives and siblings, and cherish the time you spend with your family.
05. Cultivate elegant hobbies and enrich the soul.
The last point, which is actually very important, is that we cultivate noble hobbies to enrich our souls.
Because when people get old, in fact, our material needs are gradually decreasing, and we will pay more attention to the abundance and abundance of the spiritual world.
Zhang Dai of the Ming Dynasty said: "People have no habits, and they can't have friends with them." ”
If a person does not have any interests and hobbies, and life is like a pool of stagnant water, then it is equivalent to wasting the time of life in vain.
So even if you are in your 70s, you still have to have your own hobbies, live your life every day to the fullest and colorful, and do not waste a minute or a second in your life.
However, we must stay away from some vulgar hobbies, such as frequent visits to some entertainment venues, foot bath shops, leisure centers or chess and card rooms, even if many people around you have these hobbies, you must keep yourself clean and don't mix with them.
Which ones are more elegant? For example, playing chess, playing Go or writing calligraphy, appreciating ancient calligraphy and paintings, listening to musicals, drinking tea and reading books, these are all very good hobbies, which can cultivate one's self-cultivation and bring high spiritual pleasure.