Last Sunday, I met an acquaintance when I was shopping. 10 years ago, she opened the typewriter copying shop just next door to my shop.
I looked at her up and down. The more than 40 year old woman looked very intelligent. She told me that she was working in a famous company in the city, and became a department director not long ago.
10 years ago, she was going to run a copy shop outside. She went home to do housework and tutor the son of primary school. But every day, she took up books, read a few pages and made several questions. I was surprised that she was preparing for the adult college entrance examination. She was already more than 30 years old. Is it too late? When you get a certificate of completion, it’s the age of 40. Besides, her small business is good. Her husband has a steady income. Is it necessary to spell it?
She said that the age of adult college entrance examination is a bit too big now. In fact, she wanted to register two years ago when she hesitated because of her age. In the past two years, now I wonder if I had made up my mind to achieve the goal two years ahead of time.
So, she decided to start from now. She didn’t want to wait two years and go back again.
Later, she passed the adult college entrance examination. With the opening of more and more copies, the business in her shop gradually became desolate. At the same time, middle-aged women play mahjong watching TV and go shopping. She is trying to improve her ability. At the age of ease, she had no choice.
Later, she closed the shop and started a new life. When she met her again, she was head of the Department of a large enterprise. Now, think back to it. It’s not too late to get a certificate of graduation at the age of more than 30 when you take part in the adult college entrance examination at the age of 40.
Two
I know a friend who was hooked on dancing at the age of 37. She wants to go to the dance class, all around the voice of opposition, everyone is asking her: the best age to learn the dance you have missed, your ligament still pull open? Is the action done well? In the face of questioning, she wanted to give up.
One time, she met a 58 year old sister in the dance classroom. She had been learning and dancing for 3 years. The dance skills were better than the teenage girls. She opened her mouth in surprise.
The elder sister told her that when she first learned the dance, she was also opposed by the family, and even some people said she was not afraid of disgrace. Old arms and old legs had also learned the fashion of young people. But she felt that now that she wants to learn, that is the best arrangement. It only takes more time than others to sweat more. How can I be reconciled to what I want to do without trying?
My friend decided to sign up to learn dancing that day. A few years later, she led the dance performance team in the provincial contest won the two prize.
It’s never too late to have anything. From now on, it’s the best time.
Three
I started writing when I was nearly 40 years old. At the time, I lamented that I started too late and regretted the wasted time.
I learned about Jiang Shumei on the Internet. She started learning to write at the age of 60, and began writing at the age of 75. Now four works have been published. Like many traditional women, she gave birth to her child’s whole life. She didn’t begin to do what she liked until the child’s adult and her wife passed away. Who can think of an old man who begins to read at the age of 60 and will become a writer in the future?
Mose, the famous grandmother, began painting at the age of 76, and at the age of 80 he held a personal exhibition. He created over 1600 works and warmed many people. She told people: don’t make excuses for yourself. It’s never too late to do what you want to do, even if you are 80 years old.
Grandma Mose once wrote such a saying: someone always said it was late. In fact, it’s the best time now. For a real pursuer, every period of life is young and timely.
Four
It’s never our age, but our attitude towards age. We always thought it was too late, but it was in this lament that we missed the opportunity again.
But later we found it was not too late when we thought it was late. If from now on, the present oneself has already obtained, therefore, regretted once again regretted.
There is a good saying: age is never the limit unless you bring it to yourself.
For the time that has been wasted, regrets have no meaning, it is better to start from now on, ten or twenty years later, you will be grateful to yourself now that you still choose to start at the best of age, otherwise life is really only a pity.
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