The moment he got the decision on the state compensation, Ansheng hands trembled, pursed his lips, and suddenly hugged his head and cried, and the past came to his mind.
Anson and I bonded because of the text, only to know that 40 + he loves to drink and chanting Buddha, never knew that this middle-aged man, deep behind the cover of the untold suffering.
That year we traveled together to the Cold Mountain Temple, he knelt in front of the statue of the god, hands together, pious bow, I secretly ridiculed him, young, aspire to Zen life.
20 years late judgment, justice is not absent after all, if life can start over again, I still choose to be a good person, Ansheng words said I was in tears.
He never imagined that a kind gesture would bring nightmares, and that 20 years would change his entire life.
In 1997, Ansheng was still a college student, and on that day, he and his old classmates made an appointment to go to a finance and trade college to play a ball game.
When he was on the sidewalk in the city of S, pedaling hard on two wheels, on his way to the appointment, he suddenly saw an old man on a bicycle not far away, in order to avoid the retrograde vehicles and slowly fell to the ground.
He didn't think much about it, he put his bike next to the green belt, and then stride over to help the old man pick up the greens that fell on the ground, breakfast.
Help the old man up, which, Ansheng want to turn around and leave, was a handful of his arms, shouting that the young man knocked him down, but also want to play a scoundrel!
Anson thus got into trouble with the lawsuit, the elderly family to its claim of more than three hundred thousand, hospitalized for a year, lost wages, nutritional costs, transportation costs, medical expenses, accompanied by fees, etc..
No camera records, and could not find the passers-by to testify at the time, Ansheng lost the case, was sentenced to pay each other 10,000 yuan, stubborn, he was hard to defend, continue to appeal, the second trial, the injustice of paying each other 6,000 yuan.
After the verdict, the family fell into a huge loss, and finally managed to get enough money to pay six thousand dollars, which, at that time, was two years of income for the whole family.
My father, who is over 100 years old, was so angry that he did not allow him to go home, and Ansheng took refuge with a fellow cab driver.
In a deserted factory dormitory, he spent the most difficult and helpless six months of his life.
Behind his back, he was pointed out by familiar people, and from then on, Ansheng's name was preceded by an additional modification: the college student who bumped into someone, so much so that the department wouldn't give him a stamp of approval when recommending the outstanding college graduates.
He went to the village party branch, wrote a good supporting documents, and once again was rejected.
When most of his classmates have found a home, Ansheng is still worried about a letter of recommendation to prove his innocence. In the end, with the help of a relative, he got into a company as a temporary worker.
We used to call him An, who usually doesn't talk much, and only when he's drunk can we hear a few sentences of his heartfelt sentiments through his tanned face.
He said, remember, no matter what, we must choose to be a good person, must be able to stand up to their own conscience, no matter how much it costs, do not lose their personality.
Listening to this, we often find Ang inexplicable.
Until today, he showed the decision of state compensation from a court, we realized. We realized that he was wronged for several years and never spoke for outsiders.
When we are angry for him to hold the injustice, to plan to find that unscrupulous old man, to ask the truth, he said no need!
Doing a good job, it's really hard, we still have to choose to do a good job! If you walk right and sit straight, there's no hurdle you can't get past!
"Ange, it's just that you're doing this good thing at too great a cost, and it's plagued you for so many years!" I was righteously indignant.
"No, the judgment of justice came after all, I did not rejoice in myself for obtaining the state compensation, but, rather, gained a kind of release, a kind of release of aggrieved gratification!" Ang should be drunk again.
"Brother An, I just want to go to interview the year blackmail you that old man, just ask him a sentence, why wrongly accused a good person?"
"There is no need, I believe in Buddhism, be a good person, no shame, all things in the world cause and effect follow."
Late verdict, we cheered for it, everyone in the group have sent red packets firecrackers for Ang to celebrate, senior literary friends to Ang:
The burden of twenty years,
committed to the heart of the calm,
conscience,
Commitment,
Commitment,
The heart of the world's largest city.
The truth is out there,
Pulling back the clouds to see the sunny sky.
Thanks, he calmly released 20 years of aggression.
He has blood in his chest and wounds in his heart, but insists on being a good person, obsessed.
Every time we get together, he must be the one who grabs the bill, and every time we send out red packets, he must be the most generous one, which is what we all see as An.
When he was looking for someone to marry, he was questioned about his character, and when he was repeatedly questioned about "the thing you hit", he was in tears again and again.
When I told him I was going to write his story in real life, he refused again.
"Stillwater, you can write, but do not have to real name, brother only one wish, you remind everyone must insist on being a good person!" The phone on the other end of the brother An solemn.
"Next time, encounter this, you still help or not?" I continued to ask.
"Help! But remember to get someone to record a video!" Ang said seriously.
"I'll also need you to give me some details, like the damage and impact it had on you."
"It's all coming through, thanks to the country's legal system, the seriousness and earnestness with which the case was taken, and in the retrial, clearing my name!"
Hanging up An's phone, as a professional self-publisher, I can not help but weep.
What does 20 years of humiliation mean to a young man?
He will carry the shackles of his heart to bear the burden of life.
He will lick his wounds in the dead of night.
He will bear the grievances of "you hit that thing" over and over again.
He will lose the original belongs to their own job opportunities ......
One year Spring Festival night, Shen Teng and Ma Li acted in a skit called "help or not", I still clearly remember such a line! If people's hearts are down, we can't even help them up if we want to.
From the Peng Yu case in Nanjing to the present, about the old man fell down, in the end to help or not to help, has been a very often discussed and very upset about the topic.
I don't think anyone would want to see the death of a man, but if I help the old man, but to lose his life? Who would dare to help?
If we all don't help, who will help if one day it's our parents who fall down on the side of the road?
Being a good person, although it is difficult, but we also have to choose to be a good person! Just don't forget to protect yourself when helping others.
The elderly is a vulnerable group, each of us have parents, sympathy and help the elderly is natural.
If really knocked down the elderly should be compensated, the same if the elderly get help in turn blackmail, should also pay the price.
In principle, the old man can not be forgiven for making a mistake, and the weak kill the same crime.
Caesar's is Caesar's, and God's is God.
Only by establishing rules can we lift up people's hearts and minimize tragedies.
Your goodness, must be a little sharp, or it is zero.
I remember last winter when the coldest, 999 cold spirit by a "someone secretly love you" broke the circle of friends, a time when a sentence of the world in fact, you do not think so bad, was spread by people scrambling.
Just as people have felt that only kindness is the most capable of moving people's hearts, the Qingyang girl jumped off the building, the emergence of the case of the air hostess killed in a taxi, and let people instantly fall into the world does not seem to be good in the doubt.
September 2, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, such a thing happened:
In Jinhua City, Jiangbei Jiefang West Road, Mr. Teng, riding a battery, help up behind a ride on the battery fell Mr. Cao, but in the traffic police arrived at the scene, the two people but each other's words: the fall of Cao! Mr. Teng insisted that Mr. Teng overtook the car knocked him down, while Mr. Teng said he heard a sound behind the car, only to stop to help a hand.
In order to make this argument stop, the visiting traffic police found a surveillance.
In the end, the monitoring of the picture confirmed that the two cars, although very close, but did not touch, helping people Mr. Teng is really good, Mr. Cao is his own fall.
To see this incident, I can not help but feel a little helpless.
In this world, can we still be good people? Since most of the good people don't get good rewards, is it right to give up goodness to be cold and evil?
About this question, in the short film brought today, may give us some inspiration.
The short film comes from Japanese singer Toshihide Maba's "Weak Bugs," paired with animation guru Tekken Parapara's manga made into a music video, with heartfelt lyrics coupled with demoralizing but true-to-life images.
In the film, the protagonist is a person who is not naturally willing to be strong or bully others, and like the song says, he is like a worm who wants to live peacefully in his own world.
But fate is sometimes really full of malice. It always likes to bring a little more wind and a little more rain when people bear misfortunes, making living well a difficult task.
So, in the layers of interlocking social survival laws, in order to survive, most people choose to throw away their own, began to stray dogs bullying stray cats, stray cats and bullying the life of the mouse.
But the protagonist did not, in a wave of smiley face to welcome the cold-eyed response and obviously they did not do anything wrong but was wrongly accused of things, he still chose not to rebel.
But his persistence did not lead to a good ending.
But at that moment, looking at the protagonist's crying and the side of the police escorting him secretly shed tears, I did not gradually the initial heartache. More is to tenderness and even goodwill thinking.
Thinking in this world, what is tenderness, what is kindness?
The protagonist of the MV, as most people see it, is as kind as he is, but he's been ostracized and misunderstood and harmed in every way, and it's just too bad for people like that.
But other than that, what I see is that his gentleness is not wrong, but it's obvious that he's using it in the wrong place, and that this kind of uncertainty and inaction, which brings distress and trouble to himself and his family, can't be called gentle and kind.
It's stupid, it's "bad", it's weak, it's "deserved" to be bullied.
What I believe is that goodness is the most shining thing in humanity at all times, and we shouldn't throw it away.
But the so-called goodness is not to treat anything and everyone is to take again and again to avoid, retreat and endure the attitude, to do the good thing you can with the mind of not asking for a return, but not to let themselves always in a passive and endure the state.
The most mature thing to do in life is to have a bottom line in life and a sharp edge in life.
The power of gentleness will not allow you to show your strength by bullying the weak, but rather to look at the so-called strong and weak with a calm mind.
But this tenderness is not the same as honesty, the wrong occasion, you not only can not achieve the purpose of catering to the world, but also will hurt themselves and love you people.
We have to realize that we are not living in a fairy tale, and that the world is changing for the better.
In line with its slow forward steps, you can only be more of a protector of yourself before it becomes what you ideally want it to be, and then choose to sow the seeds of goodness.
For the matter of releasing kindness, we should maintain our own independent human dignity and personality space under the premise, and then do as much as possible. In this way, we will be able to carry a solid armor when we have a tender soft underbelly.
I believe that the world is never short of goodness, but short of reason to know right from wrong. We should not sacrifice ourselves to squander the most precious such things, but more in compliance with the inner thoughts to express their own goodness.
Doing good is actually very simple, such as seeing people wall to fall, if you can not help, then do not push is also a kind of goodness, see people sad tears, if you do not want to comfort, then do not gloat is also a kind of goodness.
It's not easy to come to the world, it's not easy to come to the world, it's not easy to come to the world.
China has entered an aging society.
In such a country where rituals have been honored for thousands of years, the elderly are both the beginning and the end of rituals. Our elders, in our hearts, should always be neutral and calm, old and strong.
60 years old is a life of a hurdle, is to enter the threshold of old age, the son said: sixty and ears smooth. The smooth ear, interpretation of many, can be to listen to the words of the ear, can also be listening to people know right and wrong, no matter which interpretation, all explain one thing, the elderly has smoothed out all the angles, become neutral and calm, and listen to the Ming. This is a manifestation of wisdom, but also an important quality of the elderly to get the respect of young people.
Then there's the "seventy years of doing what you want to do, not exceeding the rules". This is the ideal state of the old man according to Confucius, when he is over seventy, his thoughts and morals have been regulated in a reasonable range, even if he does as he pleases, he is still in line with reason. The rituals of this moment are all in one.
From ancient times to the present day, according to the instructions of Confucius, the Chinese people take the old man as a role model, as an arbiter, as a spirit of dependence, they are a family, a group, and even the center of the country, as long as the old man put the steering wheel stabilized, the sky will not collapse.
But in the current China, a crooked wind has gone, the negative news of the elderly endless, accompanied by in the end is the old man bad, or bad people become old question, in the end is the old man for the old, or young people out of the gift of filial piety and respect, and similar arguments have a tendency to become more and more intense.
The old man's singing makes it impossible for students to listen to their lessons; the square dancers drive away residents who park their cars; the old man who falls down relies on the students who help him; the old man who asks for his seat sits on his buttocks on the teenage girl; and, most recently, the old man who throws a hand grenade at the bus driver in a rage because the bus stops farther away.
Even in China, where there is a tradition of respect for the elderly, one can't help but wonder what's wrong with them. A proposition out of nothing has crept in, and negative news about the elderly is on the rise. People are divided on whether it's the old people who are getting worse, or the bad people who are getting older.
Whether to help the elderly fall down has become a philosophical proposition.
But from another point of view, the old man's bad may just be a pseudo-proposition, in the age of aging and the development of self-media, a lot of things have been magnified.
China began to enter an aging society in 2009, when the number of people over 60 reached 12.5% of the total population, or 167 million people, and just four years later, the number exceeded 200 million, a proportion of 14.3%.
Another year, around 1952, when the peak of the fertility of the population fully entered the aging.
This is not just an inflection point in China's demographic weighting, but also a scramble for social resources. For example, during the morning rush hour, which is also the time for the elderly to exercise in the morning, the elderly are competing with the young for the limited public **** transportation; as the elderly population grows, the space for their activities expands, and their activities and voices go beyond the boundaries of the original resources.
Of course, the problems brought about by this aging society can't be the reason for individual seniors to be so capricious, and the only thing left to do is to "follow your heart", and importantly, to "stay within your boundaries".
There is a view that the current age group that is entering old age, which happens to be born around 1952, is completely living under the new China, and all of their lives are spent in such and such a movement, and these movements have brought about an extremely negative branding of their lives, like the old man in Zhejiang who threw a grenade that was left over from the Cultural Revolution. The grenade was left over from the Cultural Revolution.
The dual role of internal and external factors, coupled with the development of self media, suddenly let some of the problem elderly exposure in front of people. It's just that these seniors are a minority after all, and can't replace the whole group of seniors.
When the music of the square dance is amazing, when the morning bus always have the old man rushed forward, when the white hair around the side of no one else to chat loudly. We do not easily blame them, or to go a long way, perhaps older ears are not very good, for the elderly are walking into the sunset, should be more points of understanding and care, which is what they need most.
In fact, what the elderly need is just a little care and activity space.
According to what Confucius said, "young and not Sun Di, long and no description, old and not dead is a thief." This is exactly what an old man should be like, that is, when young, filial piety and fraternal duty, when old, can be upright, when old, can be obedient not to exceed the rules, so that young people can become the object of imitation and respect.
In the eyes of the Chinese, the old man should be sensible, right and wrong, respectable. They have a kind face, speak calmly, behave in a disciplined manner, treat people with courtesy, and are virtuous.
They stipulate the etiquette in the family and set an example by teaching the young people to sit and stand, and to eat without speaking and sleep without speaking.
They are not angry, they will not easily speak out of turn, but as long as a look, a cough, a cane a poke, the younger generation will be honest and dare not make a mistake.
They should be the mirror, all the people in them to illuminate their own shortcomings, to find their own strengths, to learn from the old man's hard-working attitude, conscientious and responsible principle of handling things.
There is an old man in the family, there is a treasure.
They have always been a family, a group, and even the country's Prime Minister Bo Yuzhu, the frame of the sea purple gold beam.
Although in this materially different society, many elderly people still need to be supported by the younger generation, but as long as they have high moral standing, they will not be affected by the material needs of their social status.
In a country where rituals have been honored for thousands of years, the elderly are both the beginning and the end of rituals. Our elders, in our hearts, should always be neutral and calm, old and strong.