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In the last three or four years, due to the COVID-19 era, it has become normal for me to not talk to anyone in my daily life.

Now, the only time I talk to my husband is through video chats at night.

When I occasionally meet my daughters, I enjoy a "live conversation" for the first time in a while.

I think that I talk too much, which is probably a nuisance to young people, but I still give them a lot of topics to talk about. (I tend to say things that I shouldn't say... sorry, husband.)

So, I bragged about doing brain training drills every day to deal with my biggest concern right now, "dementia."

I'm almost done with one book, and the daily problems alternate between math and Japanese, so if yesterday was math, today is Japanese. It's mostly simple calculations and simple kanji.

It's only easy questions, so it's natural that I can do them, but what I care about is the time rather than the percentage of correct answers. The problem has a guideline of how many minutes it will take to solve it if you are in your 50s, 60s, and 70s or older, and it is important to me to finish it as quickly as possible.

For example, the kanji problem of the day

The goal is 20 minutes for people in their 50s, but I finished it in 6 minutes

Okay

I said, pumping my fist in victory

The math problem of the day

Zoomed in, it looked like this.

At first, I was hesitant to think about how to calculate it, and it took a while for me to think of the answer, and I even made a mistake with simple subtraction, so the result was terrible. It took me 20 minutes, and I was in my 60s. I was disappointed.

I am actually in my 60s.

The problem for Saturday is here

It is a problem that alternates between reading and writing simple kanji and doing calculations. I finished it in 4 minutes by using a two-sword style of writing kanji while doing the next calculation in my head

I beat someone in their 50s~

I'm an old lady who is happy by herself.

When I was talking about this, my children said, "That's right, that's a good thing," and I think they were praising me, saying, "Yes, that competitive spirit is good." My son-in-law and daughter told me, "They say gambling is good for preventing dementia, and some elderly care facilities and day care centers are fully incorporating it." Apparently, they set it up like a real casino, and the caregivers play the role of dealers, making fake money and betting on things like poker and slots. I see, I've done things like origami and flying paper airplanes at elderly care facilities during my internship at a facility when I was getting my helper qualification, but to be honest, only certain old ladies were interested and participated, and the old guys just looked at me from a distance with a look of disappointment. My father stubbornly refused to go to day care centers because he thought origami was stupid and he wouldn't do it. My father was still sharp until he passed away at the age of 96, so he read books on philosophy and German texts, and he passed away without participating in origami.

I felt that talking to young people is also a meaningful time because it allows me to learn new information. My grandmother made her grandchild say "King & Prince" while playing King & Prince's CD.

My daughter-in-law asked me, "Do you like King & Prince?"

I replied, "Yes, I do. Do you know King & Prince?"

She replied, "Not really..."

I explained to her, "Oh, is this Hirano-kun from King & Prince?"

She said, "That guy left King & Prince in May... He left because he wanted to aim for the world, but he joined Takki's agency, etc."

But my daughter-in-law was dumbfounded.

I realized that sometimes I know more about new information than young people, and it was fun.

Well, whether that information is necessary or not is another matter.