Entry: At the Senior Center Nov 3, 2009



In the Senior Center, every senior has a key to enter the house. But visitors like me need to ring the bell by the door and someone inside will let us in. Today, Bob opened the door for me. I mentioned before, Bob is the guy who has stroke so he needs to walk very slowly, even so, his walking is not that coordinated. But anyway, he opened the door for me. It¡¯s so moving when I saw him walking to the door slowly but full of energy and he gave me a big smile from the moment when he saw me at the door. When I entered in the house, many seniors could not wait to greet me. I still remember all the smiley faces and waving hands now.

 

When people grow old, they can still have the same creative imagination, the same positive attitude towards life and the same spirit if they want to, but one thing they can never prevent: that is: growing old. When people grow old, they become less agile and need to pay special attention to every movement that may cause unexpected injury. Today, I noticed that Serena, a lovely old woman, had some injury on her face. I didn¡¯t dare to ask her what happened but later she said herself that it was because she felt off in the morning. ¡°One thing to remember, never grow old.¡± She told us half joking. But we cannot stop it, I said to myself. That¡¯s the one thing we can do nothing about it. But what we can do is trying to equip ourselves on the road. We should not be like the song sings,¡±Now I¡¯m sitting here, doing nothing but aging.¡± We should do everything our ability allows us to do and when we look back, aging is just a tiny part of our whole colorful life.

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