Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 42: Be a Kind Person (1)
Kindness makes your life more wonderful.

There is Mr. Kobayashi who works in the Japanese tax office. He is honest and simple.One day, he went to the laver shop to collect taxes, but the owner was not there, so he probably went to Jiangwan to pick laver.He walked along the embankment to Jiangwan, and sure enough, he saw Mucun's family was busy.The old Kimura couple soaked barefoot in the seawater in winter. The three primary school children and the eldest daughter of Kimura, who was in middle school, also rolled up their sleeves, and they did not hesitate to bare their tender white arms to help pick laver in the seawater.

"What a cold weather." The kind-hearted Xiao Lin couldn't help thinking, "No matter how beautiful your hands are, it's no wonder they are not rough when soaked in the cold sea water! There are long rubber shoes on the market, but why are there no long rubber gloves? ?By the way, can't we make waterproof gloves?"

He started reading about it.It happened that he had a friend who was working in the nearby Sanxing Chemical Company, so he went to visit the factory to absorb process knowledge.Later, after hard work and repeated changes, Kobayashi finally produced a sample of rubber gloves, and sent it to the Kimura family for trial use, soliciting suggestions for improvement.Later, Sanxing Chemical Company adopted Kobayashi's invention.At the end of that year, he received a huge bounty.

When Edison invented the electric light, his goal was to make "every household lighted with electric light".Therefore, from the very beginning, he proposed to himself: the invented electric lamp must be simple, universal, cheap, durable, odorless, smokeless, and nontoxic.He experimented with more than 1600 kinds of materials, and found that the effect of platinum filament was better. However, he thought that gold was expensive enough, and platinum was even more expensive. the filament.

In the history of our country, there are also many examples of obtaining opportunities to become talents based on the benefit of mankind.

An elderly woman walked into a department store in Philadelphia one rainy afternoon. Most of the counter staff ignored her, but a young man asked her if there was anything she could do for her.When she replied that she was just waiting for the rain to stop, the young man didn't sell her anything she didn't need, and instead of turning away, he brought her a chair instead.

After the rain stopped, the old woman thanked the young man and asked for a business card, and a few months later the store owner received a letter asking to send the young man Take an order to decorate an entire castle in Scotland.This letter was written by this old woman, and she was the mother of American steel magnate Carnegie.By the time the young man packed up for Scotland, he had been promoted to partner in the department store.

The success of this young man lies in the fact that he pays more care and courtesy than others.

The power of goodwill is also infinite, and it brings people into a lofty realm.

Kindness is a great medicine.Starting from goodwill, your performance will be more exciting, and your life will be more meaningful.

Please see the invention of vitamin C.

C is the first letter of the name of the inventor, Dr. Joseph Gollert Baca.Gorrett Baca was born and raised on Jewish Street on New York's East Side, his home surrounded by constant terror of disease and death.His parents opened a grocery store, and they pinned all their hopes on their clever eldest son Baka, expecting him to be a prominent person.However, the 18-year-old saw the pain of the people around him and decided to become a doctor, trying to do something to help them.He persuaded his father to enter medical school.At Bellevue Medical College, he worked very hard, passed all subjects with honors, but graduated with confusion.Because, he learned in his studies that there are too many unsolved mysteries in medicine.It is not difficult to make money as a doctor who earns a living, and he is determined to continue to study the causes of diseases that cannot be cured, and discover new treatments in order to cure those who are suffering from diseases.

He entered the U.S. Public Health Service, settled on a meager salary of $30 a year for 1600 years, and devoted himself to the research of "mysterious" diseases: yellow fever, scarlet fever, typhoid, diphtheria, and Italian leprosy.In particular, the discovery of the etiology and treatment of leprosy in Italy is entirely due to him.He even experimented with his own body in order to save the sick, for which he contracted a fever and twice nearly died.When a new health center was built in New York City, 0-year-old Joseph was recommended as the No. 1 choice for the director.If he agreed, then the life of poverty would end, but he refused without hesitation, and he never changed his original intention: to help ordinary people who are sick.So he went to the southern part of Italy where leprosy was endemic.With this spirit, Joseph discovered the cause and treatment of leprosy in Italy, and discovered vitamin C at the same time.

Dr. Joseph Gollert Baca's fighting spirit came from childhood experience.In his view, helping human beings to avoid suffering from diseases is a nobler cause than money.

Kindness is a homework to be learned in one's life.

Zhong You, a disciple of Confucius, was wandering in the market. When he saw a buyer and seller arguing, he walked over.I only heard the seller say: "I am selling 24 cents for a foot of Luxuan, and you can buy 23 feet for 24 yuan in total, and you can't do without a penny." Zhong You thought it was funny, smiled and said to the buyer: "[-] [-] is right, you are wrong." But the buyer insisted on his own opinion, and asked Zhong You if he dared to bet.Zhong You was so hot that he immediately bet on the newly bought helmet.The buyer was also confused, and the bet turned out to be the head of the project.The two clapped their hands together as an oath, and then went to Confucius for a ruling.

After Confucius asked about the situation, he smiled and said to Zhongyou: "Zilu, you are wrong, give away the helmet quickly." The buyer proudly took the helmet and left.Zhong You was puzzled and asked: "Teacher, it is clearly 24 [-]. Why did you judge him right?" Confucius said, "If you lose, you can buy the helmet again. What if that person loses?" Suddenly woke up.

It is the kindness of the wise to exchange a helmet for a life.Many times, we need to weigh the pros and cons. If it has nothing to do with the principle, we might as well take a step back and give people a step.On the surface, you have suffered a loss, but your heart will be purified.

A second lieutenant in the U.S. Army bought a case of high-quality whiskey from an auction. After Hemingway knew about it, he asked to sell him 6 bottles, whatever the price.The second lieutenant thought for a while and said, "Well, I'll exchange 6 bottles of wine for 6 lessons for you to teach me to be a writer." Hemingway laughed and said, "It took me several years to learn how to do this. You make a lot of money. Alright. Alright, deal.” The second lieutenant who got his wish hurriedly handed over 6 bottles of whiskey.

In the next five days, Hemingway gave five lectures to the second lieutenant as scheduled.The second lieutenant was very proud. He exchanged 5 bottles of wine for advice from a famous American writer.Hemingway said: "You are a shrewd businessman. Now I want to know, how many bottles of that case of wine have you drunk?" The second lieutenant replied: "I didn't drink a bottle. I saved it for the reception."

Hemingway had to go on a long trip, and the second lieutenant saw him off at the airport.In the roar of the plane, Hemingway taught him the sixth lesson: "Before writing about others, you must first become a kind and cultivated person." The second lieutenant said: "What does this have to do with writing novels?" Hemingway Said: "This is very important to being a human being. No matter what you do, being a human being will always come first."

As Hemingway walked towards the plane, he said loudly to the second lieutenant: "Before sending out invitations for your reception, you'd better take a sample of your wine." After returning, the second lieutenant opened bottle after bottle of whiskey, which was full of tea.Only then did he realize that Hemingway had known the truth for a long time, but he didn't mention a word, and still gave him six lectures as promised.

Hypocrisy often chatters endlessly, but truth and goodness do not need to be confessed.In the face of malicious harm, confession is stupid; in the face of unintentional harm, confession is superfluous.Hemingway said it well, the important thing is to be a human being.A wise man knows when to be silent and how to be silent. Even if a good-hearted person does not say a word, we can smell the fragrance of his humanity.

There was a benevolent rich man who deliberately repaired the eaves very long when he built his house, so that those homeless people could temporarily shelter from the sun and rain under the eaves.After the house was built, many people gathered under the big eaves. They played cards, drank, even set up stalls to do business, and set up a stove to light a fire to cook.The noisy human voices and the pungent smell of oily smoke disturbed the rich man's family, and they often had quarrels with those under the eaves.One winter, an old man froze to death under the big eaves, and everyone accused the rich man of being rich and unkind.

A rare hurricane hits, other people's houses are safe, but the roof of the rich man's house is torn off because its eaves are too long.Therefore, people gloated and said that evil will be rewarded with evil.

The rich man was very sad, but the kindness in his heart remained unchanged.When re-roofing, he made the eaves as long as other people's homes, and used the money he saved to build a small house elsewhere to accommodate the homeless.Although the shade of the small house is far less than that of the big eaves of the past, it is a formal house with walls on all sides.All the people who have stayed there are grateful for the kindness of the rich man.Gradually, the rich man became a highly respected person.

After all, the eaves are just eaves. Compared with the house, it is incomplete, just like the dignity of the people under the eaves is incomplete.The direct and strong contrast makes the people under the eaves have a sense of inferiority complex, hostility arises from inferiority complex, and kindness is obliterated.Helping is a noble act of kindness, but don't make the person being helped feel like receiving a handout.

A teacher gave a class like this to a freshman:

He took out a large cardboard box full of sand, and while showing it to everyone, he said, "The sand is mixed with iron filings. Can you use your eyes and fingers to pick out the iron filings from the middle?"

Everyone shook their heads.

The teacher looked at the puzzled children and said with a smile: "We cannot find iron filings among a pile of sand with our eyes and fingers, just as it is difficult for us to find our customers among the vast crowd. However, there is a tool that can help We quickly found iron filings in the middle of the sand. As you may have guessed, this tool is a magnet."

After that, he took out a magnet from his bag, put it in the sand and kept stirring it, and iron filings like arrowheads quickly gathered around the magnet.The teacher showed the group of iron filings to the students, and he said: "This is the magic power of the magnet. It can easily do things that we can't do with our hands and eyes."

The teacher said: "If this box of sand is like the life, setbacks and boring books we face, then this magnet is a heart full of love. If you have a kind heart, then it will Search in your books and in your life, and find a lot of beneficial knowledge from them, just like a magnet can attract iron filings. However, a heart that does not know kindness is like your fingers, it looks in the sand I looked for it, but I couldn't find a little bit of iron filings. Students, as long as you have a kind heart, you can always find that you have harvested every day, accumulated every day, and have something worthwhile every day. happy thing."

Where is your heart, there is your destiny No matter what difficulties, adversity, or confusion you encounter in the future, you must believe in this famous saying.No matter when and where, as long as you have a kind heart, you can attract useful resources, beautiful things and a happy life like a magnet.

To help others is to help yourself.

Someone once talked to God about heaven and hell.God said to the man, "Come on, I'll show you what hell is." They walked into a room where a group of people sat around a large pot of broth.Everyone looked malnourished, hopeless and hungry.Each carried a spoon that could reach the pot, but the handles of the spoons were longer than their arms, and they couldn't get the food into their mouths.They looked very miserable.

"Come on! I'll show you what heaven is again." God said.They entered another room, which was no different from the first: a pot of soup, a group of people, the same long-handled spoons.But everyone was happy and eating well.Because they use their own spoons to feed each other.

Because of selfishness, people are unwilling to help others, and they are unwilling to sacrifice a little bit of their own interests for others. The result is that they harm others and benefit themselves, but they lose more.In fact, to help others is to help yourself. While giving for others, happiness and prosperity will enter your heart. On the contrary, if you stay in the vacuum you set up, unwilling to accept and give, it is likely to suffocate yourself , It is very likely that people in hell will starve to death while guarding food.

There is also such a story:
An ant was wandering outside when suddenly a strong wind picked it up from the ground and blew it into the pond. Because the ant couldn't swim, it could only struggle in the water and shouted for help.

As a result, a pigeon happened to pass by the pond and heard a cry, "Help! Help!"

The pigeon stopped to look, to hear where the sound was coming from.The ant struggling in the pond saw the pigeon, and shouted desperately: "I am in the pond, help me!"

The pigeon saw the ants that were about to drown in the pond, so it quickly took a leaf and threw it into the pond.

The ant that was about to drown tried all its strength to climb up the leaves with great difficulty, and then slowly drifted to the pond with the leaves, which was regarded as saving its life.The ant said gratefully to the pigeon: "Thank you for saving me, I will never forget you!"

After a long time, one day the ants were looking for food outside, and suddenly saw a hunter in the forest aiming a gun at a little pigeon on the tree.It looked carefully, and it was the one that had saved itself.

The pigeon, which was resting on the tree, didn't realize that the hunter was going to shoot it with a gun, and was chirping.

Regardless of everything else, the ant quickly crawled to the hunter's feet and bit him hard. The hunter screamed in pain, and the gun he was aiming at the pigeon fell to the ground. This startled the pigeon, and it flew away in fright.

Although this is a fairy tale, the truth is worth pondering.No matter when, no matter where, as long as you are willing to give, you can get rewards.You can only get help from others when you are in crisis, only if you can reach out without thinking to help others when they need help.

Helping others is helping yourself. When you pay for others in life, you will experience happiness yourself, because giving is also a kind of happiness.Give your love for others, plant a piece of hope, and there will be a fruitful day, and you will be able to taste the joy of harvest.

To give happiness to others is to give happiness to oneself.

The British "Sun" once held a prize-winning activity with the topic "What kind of person is the happiest", and selected four best answers from more than 8 letters submitted:
1. The artist who has just finished his work and whistles to appreciate his own work;

2 Children who are building castles with sand;
3 mothers showering their babies.

4 The surgeon who finally saved the critically ill patient after a hard operation.

To make ourselves a happy person, from the first answer, we know that we must work, and having work will make people happy; the second answer tells us that to learn to be happy, we must be full of imagination and full of hope for the future; The three answers tell us that in order to learn to be happy, we must have love in our hearts, the kind of selfless and unrewarded love; the fourth answer tells us that in order to learn to be happy, we must have the ability and the skills to help others.Only such a person, the world will give him the most wonderful reward, as the saying goes, giving happiness to others and giving happiness to oneself.

Giving is the source of happiness. While bringing happiness to others, we will be surrounded by happiness ourselves.Happiness can be shared, you bring happiness to others, the more you share with others, the more you get.If you distribute your happiness to others, your happiness will be even greater.However, if you distribute pain and misfortune to others, you will only get pain and misfortune.In life, if you treat people with a sad face all day long, others will also treat you with the same face, and you will see more sad faces; on the contrary, if you greet people with a smiling face, you will see more smiling faces, and you will see more smiles. The happiness will be doubled.

Once upon a time there was a king who loved his son very much, and always tried his best to satisfy all his son's demands.But even so, his son always frowns and looks sad all day long.So the king offered a reward to find someone who could bring happiness to his son.

One day, a great magician came to the palace and told the king that there was a way to make the prince happy.The king said to him happily: "If you can make the prince happy, I can grant all your requests."

The magician took the prince into a secret room, wrote something on a piece of paper with something white and handed it to the prince, let the prince walk into a dark room, lit a candle, and watched all the changes on the paper , the prescription for happiness will appear on paper.

The prince followed the magician's instructions. When he lit the candle, under the light of the candle, he saw the white writing on the paper turned into a beautiful green font: "Do a good deed for others every day!" One prescription, one good deed every day, when he saw others thanking him with a smile, he was very happy.In no time, he was the happiest man in the whole country.

The Russian poet Nekrasov wrote in his long poem "In Russia, Who Can Be Happy and Joyful": The poet searched all over Russia, and the happy person he finally found turned out to be a sleepy farmer with a hoe.Yes, this farmer has a strong body, can eat, drink and sleep. From his dozing eyebrows and the sound of his snoring, he reveals sincere happiness.Why is the farmer happy?Nothing more than two reasons, one is contentment and happiness, and the other is that labor can bring happiness and happiness to people.It is precisely because the farmer has paid labor that can make others happy that he can be the happiest person.Those who give the most often receive the most.

Friends, share your happiness and happiness with others, the more happiness you share with others, the more happiness you get.

(End of this chapter)