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這篇文章以輕鬆詼諧的風格，回應了有人在推特上發問的問題：「超過45歲以上的人有什麼娛樂活動？」。作者在本文中分享了自己 45 歲過後的人生，透過分享自身充滿活力且充實的經歷，打破社會對中老年人的刻板印象。

“Bless your heart, we sit around drooling on ourselves waiting for someone to change our Depends.” In case you don’t recognize it, that’s satire.

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Someone tweeted this question recently: “What do old people (45+) do when they get together?”  Lots of people responded with things like dancing, hiking, pickle ball, spelunking. Many said they were offended, but I got a laugh out of it. I tweeted my reply.  “Bless your heart, we sit around drooling on ourselves waiting for someone to change our Depends.” In case you don’t recognize it, that’s satire.

最近有人在推特上發問：“45歲以上的老人們聚在一起都在做些什麼？” 許多人回應說他們會跳舞、遠足、打匹克球、洞穴探險等。也有許多人說這個問題令他們感到冒犯，但我卻被逗笑了。我發推回答：“我們就坐在那裡流口水啊，等有人幫我們換尿布。” 假如你沒有get 到，這是諷刺。

bless your heart 這裡沒有特別的意思，但帶有隱含的諷刺意味。

I didn’t mention that at 45, I was a single parent working full time to support my family. Or that at 49, I participated in a 500-mile bike ride from Fairbank to Anchorage to raise money for AIDS vaccine research. That at 55, I was learning to make a wet-exit from an overturned sinking kayak and taking swing dance lessons, and in my 60s, after retirement, visited Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, became a Master Gardener, an award-winning essayist, and wrote a book.

我並沒有提到在45歲時，我還是一位為維持家計在全職工作的單親母親，或者在49歲時，我參與了一次從 Fairbank 到 Anchorage 的500英里單車騎行，幫愛滋病疫苗研究籌集資金。在55歲時，我學習如何從一艘翻覆下沉的皮艇中進行 wet exit，同時還參加了 swing dance 課程。在我60多歲退休後，我參觀了黃石國家公園 (Yellowstone) 和大峽谷 (Grand Canyon)，成為了一名園藝大師 (Master Gardener)、獲獎的散文家 (essayist) ，並撰寫了一本書。