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Chapter 12

Chapter 1 Section 11 The Elderly

[Russia] Turgenev
Dark, heavy days are coming...

Your own sickness, the pain of your loved ones, the bleakness and sorrow of old age...all that you have loved, all that you have devoted yourself to is gone for ever, gone and destroyed.You are going downhill.

How to do it?sad?condolences?You do this to yourself and to no one else.

On the crooked, withering tree the leaves were falling and thinning, but it was still green.

Then, when you feel bored, please go back to the past and go back to your own memory!There, deep, deep, in the depths of your soul with mixed feelings, life that you once understood will come back before your eyes, shining brightly for you, emitting its own fragrance, still full of new green and spring brilliance and strength.

But be careful...don't look ahead, poor old man!

【Together with you】

The elderly, after years of experience and wisdom, have the characteristics and advantages that the younger generation lacks.An old man, with aspirations for thousands of miles.When we are old, we should continue to use our light and heat to make our own contribution.

In life, when we see the silver-haired old man, who still does not stop struggling like a young man, and works hard for the society with all his heart, how much admiration and admiration we will have!As ugliness breeds prejudice, so does beauty.People have too many expectations of a shiny appearance, and too many doubts about an ugly appearance.It is best to have a straight face that is neither dazzling nor frightening.

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