Chapter 45 Life is about "tension and competition"?

Soaking in Hong Kong, you meet familiar or unfamiliar faces in this society all day long. If you don’t observe them, you won’t feel any difference between Hong Kong people and us in the mainland; but if you pay attention to them and think carefully about them, you will I found that people are actually different from us, with different problems in their heads, and different diligence in their legs and feet. There is a cleaner at No. 18 Sing Woo Road, Happy Valley, where our CCTV Hong Kong reporter station is located. Her name is A Ling. When I was not familiar with it at first, I dared not ask her age easily. Later, when I got acquainted, it was similar to mine. , Both children have already participated in the work (at least they are older than me), I wonder how she looks so young despite working hard every day?The waist is neat, and the hair is not very white.She giggled and said she didn't know.

One weekend, because I didn't have to get up early the next day, I went to bed very late at night. I didn't finish dinner until after 9 o'clock. I saw her busy up and down the building; at 9 o'clock the next morning, I heard her again. She had already started to collect garbage in the corridor, and as she opened the door to thank her, she suddenly remembered the last time the night before, and blurted out in surprise: "Oh my god, what time did you come home last night? Why did you come back so early today?" Already?" She said it was after 10 o'clock, because there were guests coming to the building to stay, so she needed to clean up the guest room in a surprise manner.The reason why I asked her why she reappeared in front of my eyes in less than half a day from 9 o'clock in the evening of the first night to 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day was because I knew that her home lived far away from our unit. Fanling is almost in Shenzhen, and she goes to and from get off work every day. A Ling said that she spends at least 3 hours on the road.

In my opinion, Hong Kong people are the most difficult group to live in the world.However, the average life expectancy here ranks second in the world.What's the secret? This question has been mentioned several times, and no one has an answer, but one time I went to a reception in the Convention and Exhibition Center, and a gentleman sitting next to me was the president and editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Hong Kong, and the president and editor-in-chief of a publishing house. , the business card handed to me by this rosy-faced and radiant elder, besides the above four positions, also has a bunch of other titles.I couldn't help wondering: "Why, can you do this much work alone? How many hours can you sleep every day? But how do you maintain your body and complexion so well?"

The "neighbor" in a "boss" smiles and tells me that he "just got off work and went to the gym for an hour" (so he looks good). "fitness?" "I can't see it. I'm over 60 this year. If I have time, I must go to the gym every week; if I don't have time, I will insist on swimming every morning." I really can't see that the "next seat" is sixty years old, but he looks like he is in his forties at most. Although the suit and tie help him show his chic, youthful vitality has nothing to do with the clothes.I can't believe it even more when I listen to the "life in a day" of "a boss": "Go to bed at 12 o'clock every night, usually an hour of books is a must-read, and then only sleep for 5 hours; the next morning at 6 I must get up at 1:00 am, go swimming when I get up, and then have breakfast, go to work on time, and complete a full day of work. In addition, all Saturdays and Sundays are impossible to completely rest, which basically means little to me..."

I was stunned there, and I couldn't say a word like "surprised". Later, this "boss" was the first to tease and said proudly: "Not only you, but everyone who met me for the first time wondered why I was so stressed at work, but I looked younger? In fact, I also concluded: It is not necessarily a bad thing to have a tense life rhythm. It is better for the body to be tense and orderly than to be slow and comfortable. Both muscles and the brain can quickly renew cells. I say this without evidence. Before 1997, many of my friends were After immigrating, they have nothing to do abroad, but they spend a lot of time to maintain their health. According to common sense, they are the same age as me, so they should look healthier and younger than me, right? But after a few years when they returned to Hong Kong, I can't believe it, the appearance of my old friends has completely changed, each of them is bloated, slack, and their mental reactions are much slower than mine."

The more intense people live, the healthier they are and the younger they look?I have never heard of this kind of conclusion in the past. On the contrary, the cases of sudden middle-aged deaths and premature deaths in the Mainland in recent years have reminded me from time to time. The average life expectancy of Japan ranks first in the world today, followed by Hong Kong.These two societies are modern societies with fierce competition and fast pace, but the population life expectancy is the longest in these two regions? I have to admit that there may be some truth in the words of "a boss". The reason why Japanese and Hong Kong people have the longest life expectancy in the world is related to their eating habits, but it probably also has something to do with their fast-paced and full-load lives. certain relationship.On the streets of Hong Kong, I often see some old grandpas and grandmas with bent backs. In my opinion, they are so old that they should just move a chair and go to the sun to bask in the sun. They should not do it at all. Some heavy work, but these old people sometimes push a flatbed cart by themselves. The flatbed cart is so big that it looks like a single bed. In addition, the cart is full of large and small bags or waste paper. What about the box?I often think how can he or she push such a heavy car?Why do the family feel relieved to let the old man come out to do such a thing?But after seeing this scene too much, I no longer worry about it. Sometimes I just reach out to help, and the old man will just say thank you, and I don’t think that whether I extend my hand or not will have any particularly important effect on them—could it be Hong Kong? People don't accept the old and are not afraid of the old. They all believe that life lies in sports. Not only that, life also lies in competition and tension?

Perhaps many Hong Kong people have not thought about this problem, but life forces them to be like that, so life "forces" them to generally live a long life. Can this be explained medically?