
Who does not worry about going senile; who will pity us when we are getting old?
身瘦帶頻減,發稀冠自偏。
Our skinny bodies make us keep on fastening girdle tighter and tighter , and the hats on our thin-haired heads keep on slanting off their right position.
廢書緣惜眼,多炙為隨年。
We discontinue reading for cherishing our feeble eyes; go to doctors often for trying to prolong our lives.
經事還諳事,閱人如閱川。
But we have experienced a lot in this mundane world, so we also have had discerning mind to face people and things.
細思皆幸矣,下此便翛然。
Look on the bright side, we are lucky enough; and from now on we have had a free mind of our own to access to everything.
莫道桑榆晚,為霞尚滿天。
Therefore, never bemoan our lives now are like sunset in the evening; still there are rosy clouds all over the skies.
P.S. My dear fellow seniors, do have a propitious year of 2019, and many more years to come! (FYI, 樂天 is 白居易)