Hua was my classmate in high school. He returned to his hometown from Shenzhen this Spring Festival, and I also returned to his hometown from Shanghai two days later.
I asked Hua to accompany me to the Spring Festival temple fair. Hua pushed that he would accompany his parents at home and politely refused my invitation. A few days later, I told Ah Hua to attend the classmate reunion. Unexpectedly, he heard that the classmate reunion would take a whole day, and he euphemistically said that he could not attend the classmate reunion on the grounds that he wanted to stay at home with his parents. I said to Ah Hua unhappily: you are an adult, how can you stay with your parents all the time? Hua asked me seriously: have you calculated how many days you can stay with your parents in this life? I shook my head blankly. Hua said calmly: I have calculated that there are only 140 days that I can still be with my parents in my life. 140 days? I shouted: how can it be so short? Ah Hua said: then let me do the math for you. I work in Shenzhen after graduating from college. I go back to my hometown every Spring Festival. I get rid of the time I spend on the way home. I can spend seven days with my parents in my hometown every year. My father and mother are of the same age, and they are 60 years old this year. The average life expectancy of Chinese people is 72 years. If God blesses my parents, they can live to be 80 years old. I will still be able to stay with my parents for 140 days in my life. These 140 days may be an ordinary day for me, but they are particularly precious to my parents. They look forward to seeing my smiling face and eating dumplings made by myself every year. Shopping parties are really nothing compared to my parents' wishes.
Hua's words made my heart tremble. After being silent for a long time, I said to Ah Hua, "your calculation is not accurate. I calculated it carefully. I can really spend less than a month with my mother in my life." Like you, I go back to my hometown once a year during the Spring Festival, and I spend up to six days in my hometown. In these six days, I have three days to go out to attend friends' parties, go shopping, and eat out. In the remaining three days, apart from the time spent on bathing, sleeping, going to the toilet and other chores, I can really spend 30 hours a year with my mother. My mother is 58 years old. if my mother can live to be 80, I can only spend more than six hundred hours with her in her old age, that is, less than a month.
This seemingly simple arithmetic problem is really distressing when we leave our parents' care and work hard outside, have we ever stopped to think about how many days we can stay with our parents in this life? We all have a sense of filial piety, but the mistake we often make is to think: when I have money, I will show filial piety to them, and when I buy a big house, I will pick up two old people to live in. I will go home and see them after this period of time, but my parents will not wait for us in place. Instead of thinking about how to be filial to your parents in the future, it is better to cherish every minute and every second of getting along with your parents from now on, so that your parents' old age will be full of sunshine of love.
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