Staying ACTIVE, after retirement, this woman found her new purpose after retirement, in volunteering to help others, from the Newspapers, translated…
The fifty-seven year-old Hsu, in order to care for her father who had a stroke thirteen years ago, she’d, quit her job, two years ago, her father passed away at the age of eighty, but she doesn’t hold any regrets. And now, she’d, become, a volunteer, her biggest hope being, “hoping to help the elders who are, separated from their own offspring to fulfill their dreams, to see their children again, to forgive and understand one another, to let go of the hatred.”
Hsu originally worked as the vice president of a famous hotel’s customer’s services department, when her father had a stroke, in order to take advantage of the three months after being the key period of recovery time, she’d quit her job, and in her care, her father recovered nicely. As she accompanied her father to get treated, she’d come into contact with a lot of people who are from the lesser families, and she’d, started, involving herself in volunteering opportunities of the visually impaired, and olivopontocerebellar atropy patients, and gotten trained as an environmental lecturer, due to chance, she’d even, gotten involved in the Taiwanese Quality-of-Life Foundation, learned how to care for the elderly who are demented, or elderly who lived alone in the hospitals, the nursing homes, each and every years, she’d involved herself in hundreds of volunteering functions.
After she’d given up on that stable career, and started volunteering, she believed, that the psychological enrichment she got from volunteering, is worth more than the money she’d earned by working.
the woman, doing a demo for the elders in the community…
As she’d worked with the elderly, Hsu would use rhymes, to get the elderly people moving. “Everybody should have the senses on how to delay the effects of aging, to reduce the stresses on the families, as well as the society too.” For her, being a volunteer not only helps others, it also helps her delay her own aging processes.
“Volunteer is when you think about it, and just, go out and do it”, Hsu said, from before she’d worked, she’d always thought about making a ton of money, to give back, later on, she’d found, that the first step in starting to work in nonprofit is the hardest, and, physically volunteering, is very different from donating the money. Seeing how the elders had, smiled like children, hearing their laughter, it’d become, her biggest motivation, and encouragement to keep on, volunteering.
Toward the future, with the constant decline in birthrate, Hsu suggested that people her age “work hardest to not be the one being taken care of”, to avoid putting their next generations under too much pressures, that everybody should work hard, to try to delay their own processes of aging, care for oneself better, thus, reducing the burdens on one’s own young.
She’d suggested the younger generations to, start paving their own ways, do everything they can, to help ensure that they will have the future that they wanted to get.
Hsu managed to maintain a set income by lecturing, and working as an enterprise job training lecturer, as her life marched into the autumn, she believed, “the leaves are prettiest as they’d turned red”, and, because of modern day advances in medicine, sixty is still considered, quite young, it’s the most colorful time of life, “So long as you have a direction, finding your own values, then, contribute yourself, then, you will, get unexpected yields to you too.”
And so, this woman found her purpose, in volunteering, and, she’d become, active in her retirement, and even though she’s not working for a corporation anymore, she’s still, getting paid, a hell of a lot more, not in money, but in the satisfaction in knowing, that she is, contributing to others, making someone else’s life a lot better.