储存快乐的记忆

储存快乐的记忆 一位92岁高龄、身材矮小的老人，安然自若。尽管他双目几近失明，依然每天早晨8点钟前，穿戴整齐，发型时尚，连胡子也刮得干干净净。今天他要搬到养老院去。他70岁的妻子不久前辞世，这让他不得不搬家。 在养老院的休息室里，老人耐心地等待了好几个小时。当被告知他的房间已经准备好时，老人的脸上露出了甜甜的微笑。 随着老人把行走辅助器挪进电梯间，我向他形象地描述了为他准备的小房间，包括带金属挂环儿的窗帘。 “我喜欢这个房间，”他兴奋地说，就像一个8岁的孩子刚刚得到一只小狗一样。 “琼斯先生，您还没有看到房间……等等再说吧。” “这一点也没关系。”他回答说。 “快乐是可以事先决定好的。我是不是喜欢这个房间并不取决于里面的家具是如何安排的，而取决于我怎样调整自己的心态。我已经决定喜欢它。这是我每天清晨醒来时都要做出的一个决定。在我面前有两种选择：我可以整天躺在床上琢磨我身体哪些部分不灵了，给我带来这样或那样的困难；我也可以从床上起来，对我身体还有许多部分能工作心怀感激。每一天都是一份礼物。只要我睁开眼，我就会把注意力集中在这新的一天上，还有生活中为了这一刻所存储的快乐的记忆。老年就像银行的账户，你提取你所存储的。所以我的建议是：在账户里多多存入快乐的记忆！谢谢你在我的记忆银行中也注入了你的一部分，我自己也在不断地存入快乐。” Saving Happiness A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet curtains that had been hung on his window.