Synopsis
The seas change, the stars shift.
In the blink of an eye, those born in the 1950s have become seniors in the truest sense, already carrying senior citizen cards. Faced with the twists and turns, ups and downs of life’s final chapter, surely many of them feel wistful and deeply moved.
My humble work, Old Men and Women in the Neighborhood, takes the perspective of an ordinary senior like myself. Through fictional stories about older people in everyday neighborhoods, I have tried to portray the many sides of life in old age as realistically as possible, recreating experiences that may feel familiar to seniors: birth, aging, sickness and death; remarriage and companionship in old age; health and conversation; getting along with the neighbors; different ways of arranging elder care, and much more. I hope these stories will resonate with seniors’ joys and sorrows, sharing in their wistfulness and reflecting their feelings, so that they can find somewhere to go, things to think about, someone to love, and reasons to be happy in their later years.
Although my writing skills and life experience are limited, as a senior I have done my best to think and write on behalf of other seniors. I hope my efforts have not been in vain.
