That road is the closest and wide road to the living area. They usually come in groups of three or four. One is Lao Li, who is younger than him, and the others are unknown to him. Lao Zhang is the administrative leader and Lao Li is the secretary.

Lao Zhang is either walking or on the way. This is my impression after seeing him retire until now.

At that time, I met him almost every day when I ran in the morning. That road is the closest and wide road to the living area. They usually come in groups of three or four. One is Lao Li, who is younger than him, and the others are unknown to him. Before retiring, Lao Zhang and Lao Li worked together. Lao Zhang is the administrative leader and Lao Li is the secretary. The two of them got along well as partners, and they always exercised together after retirement. At that time, they walked with grandeur, their leadership dignity was still intact, and their mental age was still middle-aged before retirement. When I saw them walking, they were all walking quickly, as if they were going to join the three armies. The momentum feels even grand, and it is a beautiful scenery. Later, in my memory, I was always confused with the promotional poster of a certain mountain meeting. When we met, Lao Li always said hello silently with a smile and a wave of his hand. Lao Zhang seemed to be smiling but not smiling and walked straight forward. I think, judging from his expression, he must be very comfortable and full of longing for retirement life.

A few years later, I took a different road to the outer suburbs, and I still met them often. This is not surprising, my physical strength increased together with theirs, so I touched farther away. However, a few years later, Secretary Li disappeared. I heard that he had suffered from cerebral thrombosis and was suffering from hemiplegia. So Lao Zhang's team almost dispersed.

More than twenty years later, I met Lao Zhang again while walking in the park. He staggered forward step by step, like walking on the grass on the 25,000-mile Long March. I admired Lao Zhang’s persistence and took the initiative to chat with him. He is eighty-eight years old and lives alone after the death of his wife. He can take care of himself and does not want to interfere with the normal work and life of his children. He advised me to walk where I should go while I was young, and eat what I should eat. Otherwise you will regret it when you get old. I'm old and it's no use asking for money. At this time, the waning old Zhang was like an old dead tree swaying in the wind, or like a brave traveler walking alone into the dark night. It is said that he is like a dead tree. He has been bitten by time and has reached his twilight years. It is said that he is like Yu Yu, a solitary traveler. He understands that the future is infinitely dark and still staggers forward with the courage to survive. No wonder old man Mao burst into tears and howled loudly after reciting "Ode to a Dead Tree" in his later years. Even if a hero is full of ambition in his old age, he can only sigh with emotion, let alone a mortal?

In the morning and evening of the next day, I saw Lao Zhang walking on the road twice from a distance. He kept his mouth shut and walked with his head held high, but his eyes were dim and his steps were stumbling. His determination was greater than his walking pace, which made his walking with difficulty seem as heroic as watching the loose trees in the dusk.

I suddenly remembered the first law of the universe the law of entropy . Everyone must perish with entropy. But we are being pulled toward the end by two opposing forces. One is to rely on one's own willpower to increase negative entropy through exercise and resist aging. One is the external force of nature, and all things will inevitably perish. No matter what, Lao Zhang has been on the road of increasing negative entropy, so he has walked longer than ordinary people on the road of life, and he is healthier.

Life needs to be lived like this.