Old Age Sticks
e.e. cummingsOld age sticks up keep off signs
& youth yanks them down
Old age cries no tress
& pass
Youth laughs
Sing old age scolds forbidden stop
Mustn’t don’t &
Youth goes right on growing old.
2012年8月末我將此BLOG 改名;2017.11.1 改名
Old Age Sticks
e.e. cummings
說唱、跳探戈、走秀……越來越多中國老年人在網上分享日常生活並走紅。中國面臨人口老齡化的嚴重挑戰,許多老年人正在進行創造性嘗試,改變人們對衰老的刻板印象。
President Biden Turns 80, 八旬之年活力充沛、..... 、.....高齡生命
President Biden Turns 80, Making Him the First Octogenarian in the Oval Office
這些專家一致認為,拜登有很多優勢:他受過高等教育、有大量社交活動、還有一份需要大量思考的刺激性職業、已婚並有強大的家族網絡——研究表明,所有這些因素都能預防失智,有利於健康老齡化。他不抽煙也不喝酒,據白宮稱,他每週鍛煉五次。他還能得到一流醫療服務。
通過儀式;成年禮. rites of passage.
猶太教 13歲,所以依詩篇90,"我們的壽數,不外七十春秋",有的教會給83歲的老人,
~~紐約時報Older Generations Are Reclaiming Rites of Passage
9我們的日月,都在你義怒中消逝,我們的年歲,也不過像一聲嘆息。 10我們的壽數,不外七十春秋,若是強壯,也不過八十寒暑;但多半還是充滿勞苦與空虛,因轉眼即逝,我們也如飛而去。 11誰能體會你怒憤的威力,誰能覺察你怒火的可畏? 12求你教導我們詳數年歲,使我們達到內心的智慧。 13上主,求你歸來,尚待何時?求你快來憐恤你的僕役! 14使我們清晨即飽享你的慈愛,讓我們能歡欣鼓舞天天愉快! 15你磨難我們,使我們受苦多少日子,求你也使我們多少年月時日歡喜。 16求使你的僕人得見你的化工,給他們的子孫彰顯你的尊榮。 17願上主我們的天主給我們廣施仁風,求你促使我們所行的工作順利成功,求你促使我們所行的工作順利成功。
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Brooks' new book is From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. He spoke to All Things Considered about not leaving happiness to chance and about the two types of intelligence needed for happiness.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
You've got to do the work. You can't just wish for it, and you can't hope you get lucky.
he point of the work that I'm doing as a social scientist is to not leave your happiness up to chance but to remarkably increase the odds by doing the work at 25 and 45 and 65 so that by the time you're 75 and 85 and beyond, you're happier than you've ever been.
And I found that there are people who have cracked the code but, more importantly, that we don't have to leave happiness in the second half of life up to chance. We can find a new kind of success if we're willing to make some jumps and some changes and show some humility and have an adventure that's better than the first half.
There's a very interesting set of findings that said success early on is based on one of two types of intelligence. The first is called fluid intelligence, which gives you the ability to solve problems, to crack the case, to innovate faster and to focus harder than pretty much all the competition early on in your career. This is your Elon Musk brain, and this increases through your 20s and into your 30s.
But then it tends to decline through your 40s and 50s, meaning that you need to move to the second kind of intelligence, which is increasing in your 40s and 50s and even your 60s, and it will stay high for the rest of your life. That's called your crystallized intelligence, which is your wisdom, your ability to compile the information that's in your vast library to teach better, to explain better, to form teams better. In other words, not to answer somebody else's questions, but to form the right questions.
One of the biggest things that I teach my students at the Harvard Business School is that what you think right now is not what you're going to think later. The things that you want are not the things that you're going to want later.
Your abilities are going to change. Your views are going to change. The things you care about [are] going to change, and that's good and that's healthy. And that kind of flexibility is key.
Everybody knows that the pandemic is not something that we wanted, but it's also been an incredible opportunity for a lot of people. For me, I was able to quietly write this book and set up a strategic plan for the rest of my life.
A lot of other people tell me similar stories and how they deepened their relationships — that they understood themselves better. And this is something that we should remember as we get back into the hustle and bustle of non-pandemic life.
Let's not forget that there are certain things that we don't want to go back to.
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