媽媽身體健康的那些年,每次我回國探親,白天倒時差時,她總會輕輕走近我的臥房,幫我蓋好被子關緊房門。那時我習慣於她在房子裏走來走去,“take mobility for granted”, 我從未想過幾年後,媽媽會突發腦出血,從此行動不便。而最令我難過的是,由於腦出血的後遺症,媽媽丟失了部分數字記憶,她不再記得我的生日。今天夏天我六十歲,原本我給媽媽看我生日的照片,告訴她六十歲是生命的重要節點,因為我人生暮年的序幕已拉開。沒想到,媽媽看著照片對我說:“花開堪折須亦折,莫待無花空折枝”。我笑媽媽忘了我的年齡,說:我今年六十歲,不是二十歲,而她卻一臉困惑,認真地問我是哪一年生的?
回複 'elfie' 的評論 : Thank you for coming and sharing your thoughts. It is true that everybody gets old eventually. However believe it or not, some people can slow down the aging process one way or another, but some cannot, and even worse than that, they may speed up the aging process by not taking good care of themselves...
You're 50, looking like 30, congratulations!! You know what? your looking younger benefits no one but yourself. Merry Christmas!
Women get old almost overnight. It's the ovary that provides female hormones.
Once the ovary shrinks significantly then there will be wrinkles and brittle bones and old looking. Some younger women may look older because their hormone levels are lower. Everybody gets old eventually, you and I and everyone else, with no exceptions. At 70 and 80, every woman is full of wrinkles, unless using botox to freeze the facial muscle earlier.
If you don't believe it, look at the Hollywood stars, Audrey Hepburn,
Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Lauren, they can't stop it either. Elixir doesn't exist. Getting old is natural. I'm afraid one day I won't be able to recognize myself in the mirror so I never look into it. I'm 50, looking like 30.
So what? I will be an old hag like Hilary Clinton.