Basically, living alone can present many challenges. They are more likely to be poor as the longer they live alone; They may feel lonely and isolated all the time; They always face health problems and they may even face the problem that they have passes away, but people don’t know. Thus, it seems like elderly people who live alone need to take lots of risks.

However, not all the elders who live alone have pessimistic negative mentality. Instead, some of them really enjoy the free life and they are also used to live alone. Pang Aizhi, a 75-year-old grandma is the one who has been living alone for almost 5 years.

Grandma Pang is a retired worker and she has three daughters.Unfortunately, her husband had dead 25 years ago. Since then, she started to live with her youngest daughter for 20 years. However, as living with her daughter for many years, Pang began to find she disrupt daughter’s family, although she always helped with chores and looked after her grandson. Besides this, she also realized that she didn’t have a house of her own in her long existence.

Therefore, Pang made an astonishing action, that she bought a 80-square meters’ house using her life savings, and then she started her “new life” of living alone. “I will no longer feel a sense of responsibility and guilt,”said Pang, “I don’t want my presence away any of my daughters’ harmonious family.

Of course Pang’s decision was strongly discouraged by her three daughters. They though let the old lady living alone is extremely unsafe. What if there were thieves tracking into her home? What if she forgot to shut off the gas and electricity one day? What if she fell down and no one would notice? However, Pang didn’t care about this. “I just don’t want to ruin their life!” Pang said.

“You know, being mothers, we always don’t want to give our children so much troubles. Their life is not easy. Thus, as long as I keep health and happy, they will relieve many burdens.”

Actually, grandma Pang had a pretty good life although she lived alone. In leisure time, she always went out to take a walk, chatted with other elders, played chess, watch TV and so on. Besides this, she paid more attention to her health-conscious. She regularly did medical checkups to observe her health.What’s more, she refused her daughter’s advice that hiring a care worker to take care of her.She commented cheerfully, “I really enjoy living alone and I never being bored. One day if I couldn’t look after myself anymore, I will go to nursing home.”

Now, Pang does living in a nursing home because she thinks cooking by herself is a really trouble thing. However, she chooses to live in a single room. “I still cherish the memory of living alone!” She said.

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