1 1 month 1 1 day rarely has a seven-day holiday. Because of the epidemic and other reasons, I can't take my children on a long trip, so I brought Bauer into contact with many picture books. Among many picture books, my children and I like Outside Disappeared best. What attracts babies may be wonderful pictures, but what moves adults is the thought-provoking philosophy behind beautiful pictures.
In this book, I can see the illustrated old life, not dancing in a square dance and living in a nursing home, but a more leisurely, elegant and even romantic old age. This book is the picture book "Outside Disappeared".
"The Outside Disappeared" tells a warm story. The city is getting bigger and bigger, and the space for people is getting smaller and smaller, but the beautiful vision of life has always been in my heart. This is an adult picture book. Just like Jimmy's cartoon, it hits the heart of the adult world without bias.
I have watched it many times, but I read it slowly. Because watching, my thoughts jumped to my old age.
When I'm old ...
If nothing happens, I will be seventy years old like many grandmothers in the book in thirty years. Well, actually, the book doesn't say how old grandma is. Judging from her white hair and rickety figure, I guess she is seventy years old.
The 70-year-old grandmother always wears a loose robe, a small square towel and a pair of red flat shoes. The successor's grandmother is not the kind of fashionable and exquisite old lady, but the comfortable old lady in the forest department.
During the day, grandma's hair was wrapped in silver silk and tied to her head with braids and ribbons. At night, my head is wrapped in silver and tied into two loose braids. Coupled with the temperament of the forestry department, they all look sweet and retro old girls.
What will I be like in thirty years?
When I was a child, I was called grandma. I think, when I get old, won't someone call me "grandma XXX" If it doesn't sound good, you'll have to think of a good name in the future.
Now it can be tentative. When I get old, I can follow the example of many grandmothers and hang the house number of "Grandma Weiwei" outside my hut.
Like her, I will probably cook with a beautiful apron, do manual work with reading glasses, read with a magnifying glass, and make my home comfortable and tidy.
I'm just not sure if I can get a cat.
If it's a person ...
Grandma is an old man who lives alone, and by the way, there is a cat. The book does not introduce whether she has any children or relatives, only that few people come to her house and have no letters, but the life of grandma and cat seems to be good.
Thanks for being an interesting grandmother.
For example, whenever she slurps soup and the glass window is covered with white steam, she will make a fuss and shout, "Oh, no, the outside is gone!" " "Then I draw on the window.
Tulips, birds, butterflies, fish, comfortable benches, trees and swings, and many suns … their favorite "outside" are painted on the windows.
What the little girl likes to do is also one of grandma's favorite things.
Perhaps it is because of this attitude of satisfaction and yearning for life that grandma's solitary life can avoid loneliness and desolation.
If I am old and alone, will I be afraid?
Grandma showed it to me: If you are still alive, please accept it. In the end, we all went to the end alone. Whether life is sad or happy depends on the mind. If the outside disappears, draw it yourself.
Prepare for getting old ...
The book "The Outside Disappeared" aroused my reverie about my old age, and pragmatically summed up several guarantees for a "good old age" from my grandmothers: optimism, good health and a sense of security.
Grandmothers are optimistic and interesting and don't need to be taken care of. But she also has a problem of "supporting the elderly", that is, the house.
Grandma's house was originally a small house in a cramped place between tall buildings in big towns. Although there are many windows, there is no view of the sky. So she kept writing postcards and sending them to the person in charge of grandma's house selection, hoping to change to a house with a view outside. Finally, I won the lottery and moved to the place I wanted to live.
Writing a postcard can lead to a favorite house, which belongs to the tenderness in children's literature. In reality, if you want to spend your old age safely, you must have sufficient material security besides a good mind and good health. This artistic problem in the book may be the reality of providing for the aged that most of us face.
At one time, we formed the concept of "raising children to prevent old age" in a self-sufficient agricultural society, but today, with large-scale urbanization and highly developed economy, the concept of providing for the aged is not only a moral and traditional issue, but should be considered from an economic perspective.
Especially in today's low fertility rate, if you rely on your children to provide for the elderly, it is not only extremely risky, but also an unsustainable vicious circle.
Our "providing for the aged" is not only to ensure the "survival" of the elderly, but also to pursue "life". These cannot rely on "raising children to prevent old age", nor can they rely solely on the national pension service system. The most practical way to provide for the aged is to earn enough pension in advance and make good financial planning and living arrangements.
No matter whether it is helpless or choice, grandma will die alone, but this is not a literal bleak scene at all, but a beautiful existence like literature.
In the picture book, there are small animals, grandmothers, flowers and grass. This story tells the children living in the city about the crowded and cramped city and the imprisonment of people's hearts, which may be a difficult problem in the city. Through such stories, children can understand that there are still such problems in life, but as long as they have a heart that yearns for nature and beauty, there are still ways to face them. Perhaps this story can tell children that when life is not bright enough, life will never lose hope as long as your heart is bright enough.