While walking in the morning, my wife met a colleague of hers. The two of them chatted while walking and talked about some things related to old comrades.
A colleague said that when she went home recently, a good classmate of hers was very haggard after being tormented by an unreasonable mother.
A person who used to be very knowledgeable and sensible is now acting very unreasonably, blindly making things difficult for his daughter and tormenting her.
In the morning, I watched an episode of Huang Bo's "Unforgettable Restaurant" with my wife at home, and shed tears several times.
Huang Bo and several entertainment stars opened a charity restaurant, where the service staff are all elderly people with cognitive impairment.
The grandfathers and grandmothers are well-educated, kind-hearted, and amiable.
But they all suffer from a geriatric disease, cognitive impairment.
I have worked in a restaurant for a long time, and I forget all the work procedures every day. I tell customers and store managers that I just came here, it is my first time to go to work, and I don’t know anything.
When customers order food, they forget about it when they walk from the table to the bar. They need to go back and implement it again; customers are often served the wrong dish.
In this episode, the old lady with great connotation couldn’t recognize her own granddaughter.
When the granddaughter reported her name, the old lady said kindly that her granddaughter also had the same name and was six or seven years old.
Under repeated reminders from her granddaughter, the old grandmother finally remembered that her lovely granddaughter had grown up and had a family. She sent her blessings to her granddaughter and grandson-in-law, and taught them to love each other and live a good life.
In the blink of an eye, the old woman forgot that her granddaughter was married, asked her son-in-law his surname again, and once again blessed the two of them, asking them to love each other and live a good life.
During a meal, the same story was repeated four or five times.
After her granddaughter and son-in-law left the restaurant, the old woman immediately forgot all about her granddaughter, just like a computer without the ability to save files.
But the old lady kept her granddaughter’s name firmly in mind, and her love for her granddaughter was very touching.
Facing her grandma who no longer recognized her, her granddaughter's eyes flashed with tears.
We who are not old yet do not know what obstacles people will encounter when they grow old. We are used to using normal thinking to treat the behavior of the elderly. Sometimes we will inevitably feel incredible and even distressed.
When parents get old, it is not only their bodies that are aging, but what is actually more troublesome is their thinking. Their understanding of things, and even some concepts of life, are likely to undergo great changes and degradation.
When we are worried that our parents cannot be on the same channel with us, we should think that they are old and may have entered a state where they cannot control themselves.
At this time, they were living in a helpless, powerless, and pitiful place.
Everyone will grow old, and when they are old, they especially need help from others.
As children, this is the time for us to repay our parents.