Sharing the thoughts of others with friends, and the friends found it, amusing, how to stay active in our, elderly, years, to keep our minds and hearts, young…translated…
At the End of This, Final Move, there would be that Most Beautiful, Most, Comfortable, Curve………
I'd worked in the thrift shop of the community center's elderly unit, as the group of us are, sorting through the donated items, we can always hear a couple of articulate American elderly persons, telling those whom they're not familiar with their hobbies and interests.
And, when encountering this sort of a conversation, they normally become the audience of the speaker, even if they don't know the speaker quite well, and once the chatter boxes opened up, the atmosphere changed completely, for some, it's easy to get into the conversation topics, and started, chiming in, or giving the feedbacks, or sharing similar experiences of one's, own.
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Originally, I had no intentions from finding something to write about from my volunteer work, and yet, these elderly volunteers all have their, colorful, lives, that came out into the opens through the casual conversations, and it'd, given me a ton of inspiration as to what I'm to write about.
Linda who's close to seventy, belongs in the outcoming, active group, looked like a down-to-earth kind of a woman, actually, she'd read many people, and can strike up the conversations with anyone, and those with whom she is talking to won't find her boring at all. So long as she's around, so long as she didn't have a strap throat, that she can't make a sound, we all got to hear her sharing many, interesting things in her life.
On this very day, Linda was teaching everybody how to train our heart muscles to "smile": imagine our own hearts as a face, and slowly, imprint our own faces onto our own, hearts, find that horizontal muscle at the mouth area, then, through the will, slowly, extending the muscles, imagine using our hands, picking up the end of that, pearl, necklace, to allow this horizontal muscle to, slowly, relax, from the point in the center to begin, then, freely allow it to fall downwards, both ends of the crease, then, expand outwards, lifting, up………
The end of this move, there will be a most beautiful and comfortable, curve, and this part, you would need to explore on your selves, because everybody needs to pause at that very moment precisely, and the moment is different for everybody.
Believe it or don't, but Linda paid forty-five dollars to take two half-hour course of this, "cardiac muscle yoga", and this was, only, a small part of what's taught, as she "transmitted for free" to us, I'd listened in, and actually, started, doing the exercise in my heart muscles, and, immediately, my imagination flew off, and at the same time I was glad, that my understanding of English was enough for me to immerse in the lesson. And my heart, in the end, had that invisible, pearl necklace around it.
This is the positive effect of "brainwashing by language", listening to the words, taking the words to heart, understanding the meanings of what's told to us, graceful, and deep, how moving it can be to us all. And I'd finally come to understand, why so many loved listening to Linda, even as she'd become that, chatterbox, nobody thought she was, annoying.
I'd, immediately translated what I'd heard to Chinese to my friends, and, it was, a successful, replica. One of my friend's reaction was, "you'd only got 'bombed' for a bit with her, persuasion, nothing more." Not only did I not master the yoga, it'd become, a "talk show" instead, and, a bit of a, bad joke. That was when I'd discovered, there are some hearts, that didn't need me to get too nosy over, to put that pearl necklace around them, instead, they'd, found my telling them what I'd learned, funny, but, this is, a good enough, effect too.
So, this still showed, how important it is, to continue to, socialize, to remain active even if we grow older, to continue to connect with our external environment, to socialize with each other, because that, is how we stay active, and live well to the, very, end.
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