PureInsight | December 5, 2007
[PureInsight.org] A touching story has been circulated in my home town, Liaodong Plain.
At a remote suburb of a certain county, there was a woman who was over
50 years old. Her last name was Zhang but no one knew her full
name. She lived in a dilapidated pony stable and scavenged
through the garbage in order to survive. During the great famine, she
heard a baby crying adjacent to a hospital. She picked up the baby and
brought it home. Within three years, she rescued four abandoned
babies: They were babies from either poor parents or unwed
mothers. She chewed up food that she could find from the garbage and
fed the babies. It was a miracle that this old woman who could
hardly survive managed to raise them to be productive human beings.
Twenty years later three of the four babies went to college and
one became an army officer. They all had their own families in the big
city and every one fought for the opportunity to take care of the old
woman. After her death, the dilapidated stable that was about to
fall down in any minute became a popular spot for visitors. The local
residents put on a nice front door for the stable and a fence around
it. A sign on the front door says, "The house of kindness." They
also planted a tree in front of the stable and called it "The tree of
kindness."
Nowadays, with our market economy, "profit first" has become the
principle for the majority of people. Many good things are slowly
disappearing. Among people, there is more precaution than
kindness. In the story above, the old woman, whose name was not
even known to others and was barely surviving, used her kindness to
nurture the purity of humanity.
The loss of kindness is probably the most unfortunate event in the
development of a society. Kindness does not bring anyone fame or gain,
but it is pure and sincere. Let us try to be a kind person and let's
repay others for their kindness. Kindness begets kindness. The
story above is indeed a testimonial.
Kindness is not only a tree but an evergreen
tree.
Translated from:
http://xinsheng.net/xs/articles/big5/2002/10/15/17626.htm
