And there is a woman, a 100-year-old lady who started singing a song. They say that this song is a mix between Japanese and the local dialect. They translated it into English, and I am trying to translate it into French. So of course, you will not have the subtleties, since it is the translation of a translation and I am not an expert translator and you will not have the beauty of the text either. Often, the beauty of a text is lost during translations. But on the other hand, you will keep the power of the text. So there you go, I will tell you this right away, it is not a perfect translation into French of course, but I will share it with you and we will talk about it later.
.. I'm going to read the text to you once, and then we'll go over it sentence by sentence. This woman says or sings: "To stay healthy and live a long time, eat a little bit of everything with pleasure, go to bed early, get up early and start your day with a walk. We live each day with serenity and enjoy the journey. To stay healthy and live a long time, we get along well with our friends. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, we enjoy all the seasons happily. The secret is not to let yourself be distracted by the age of your fingers, from your fingers to your head and vice versa. If you keep moving your fingers, 100 years will come to you."
I think it's great... it's simple, it's powerful and it's applicable to our lives, at least in part. If we look at the beginning, "to stay healthy and live a long life, eat a little bit of everything with singapore whatsapp number data pleasure". So there, we're not talking about depriving yourself, we're not talking about being careful, about having a super balanced diet, we're telling you to eat a little bit. And besides, in the book, they say that one of the notes of their big rules was to never leave the table with your stomach completely full, to only fill yourself to about 80%, so there you go, not to eat too much.
"You have to go to bed early according to them, very good advice, get up early and walk", you know, simple things. We can all go to bed early, we can all get up early, we can all walk. These are free and easy things to do in fact.
"We live every day with serenity." So there, they try to encourage you not to stress, not to be anxious. "And we enjoy the journey," that is to say, they recommend that you enjoy the present moment and not be constantly living in the future. That's what we tend to do, we think about our next vacation, we think about in five years, I will have paid off the mortgage on the house, it will be good. We are constantly thinking about the future, but they are serene and they live from day to day in fact.
So this woman tells them that to stay in.
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