......According to a Channel NewsAsia report, he said: “You work as long as you can work and you will be healthier and happier for it. If you ask me to stop working all of a sudden, I think I’ll just shrivel up, face the wall and just that.”
Just bcos this old man do not have any friends, not surprisingly, he expect all the old man to be like him to only have happiness while working ?
He will 'just shrivel up, face the wall and just that' ? Man, he had live a wasted life and has stereotyped all to be like him. Maybe having lived from a very high ivory tower gave him the lonely feel, cold feel with all his money by his side; and he finally found out no one is actually a truth friend of his. Pathetic.
I am sure many old men and women looked forward to retiurement while healthy, to see the world, play with grandchildren, maybe some may play with meimeis looking for their second spring, play golf with buddies and just walk around the park to spent a healthy, lazy afternoon before heading off for high tea and dinner/drinks with friends. He should have paid avisit to a old-folks home unaccompanied/unannoced to see how happy some of them really are. What a happening life after retirement !
Please, old man, do not think everyone is like you. All other old people have their dreams and to enjoy life sfter having worked a greater part of their lives, now looking forward to retirement to enjoy it. Not to just shrivel up and looking at walls, waiting for the soul-police to come.
Pity him, pathetic but very rich and lonely old man. Probably get spitted at everywhere he go alone, unlike the China Premier whom the younger generations call him grand-dad, uncle, etc., endearing titles, when he toured the provinces.