Retired Life - Lao Dong Newspaper

From now on, all the familiar routines of work, travel, living, speaking, and communicating will be gone. There is something missing. There is something uncertain. My heart is in turmoil…

Becoming a time billionaire, she consoled herself: "I stay at home to do housework to help my husband and children, as compensation for the time I spent working. My retirement will not affect my family life; from tomorrow, I will spend more time taking care of my husband and children...".

She just wanted to go home quickly to see her husband and children to ease her sobbing mood. However, when she got home, she waited until 8 pm to see her husband and children appear. Suddenly feeling hot inside, she shouted: "What are you both doing that you are only coming home at this hour...". Both father and son looked at her in surprise: "Every day, you and your father come home at this time, because you are always the last one home so you don't know...". She felt embarrassed and remembered that for a long time she had not cared about her husband and children's coming and going time, simply because she was the last one home every day.

The next morning, she got up early and went to the kitchen to cook breakfast for the whole family. A moment later, she saw her husband coming down the stairs, breathing heavily and praising loudly: How wonderful! Having a retired person in the house is different. The smell of food from early morning. From now on, the whole family can eat well. But today I have a breakfast appointment with a client, so you can eat alone.

When she brought breakfast to her child and said very lovingly:

- Mom made the dish that her daughter likes the most.

- Thanks mom but I have to go to work right now, my company has an important meeting this morning, I have to come early to prepare the documents.

On the first day of retirement, she felt a sense of loss, she didn't even bother to eat breakfast alone, she wandered around the house and suddenly realized that the house was so big but so cold. She didn't expect the day to be so long, her heart was churning, waiting for her husband and children to come home from work.

It seemed like he also realized her mood, so the next morning while eating breakfast in a hurry, he said: "I left the money on the cupboard. You can spend the whole day today going to fashion stores to buy clothes to wear freely. If you don't have to go to work anymore, then buy stylish clothes to wear beautifully. I don't mind the money, I just want you to be happy."

Suddenly she got angry: "At home, at most I'll go to the market to buy food. Why do I need to dress up?"

Seeing that she had retired, her son and his wife were living separately and planned to go on a trip . She thought they would let their mother-in-law go with them, but they brought their pets over to stay. At two in the morning, a strange cat entered the house and attacked her daughter-in-law's pet. The two of them fought and screamed like children, forcing her to get out of bed. Every day, she had to take her pet for a walk, and then go to the market to buy food and cook for it according to her daughter-in-law's recipe. She thought it was fortunate that they lived separately, otherwise if they lived together, she would have shortened her life.

Every day, she goes to her usual coffee shop, chooses a quiet corner, leisurely surfs the internet, then goes to the supermarket; the food is fresh, delicious, nutritious and cheap, not cooking makes her feel guilty towards her husband and children. She cooks every day, eats delicious food, is full, then lies down to rest, and gains weight rapidly.

He loved his wife very much and understood her psychology, so he quietly asked an acquaintance to register her for a physical exercise class at the ward club. Right after the first session, she felt excited, the gentle exercises made her muscles and bones supple, her spirit refreshed. Every exercise was interesting without having to follow any order, and it also inspired and motivated her life. From then on, she participated in many social activities initiated by the club such as charity work, participating in arts and sports . Now, she understands and silently thanks her husband for making her retirement life meaningful...

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