Composition materials about thinking from different angles

Happiness of the bearer

(Don't judge others from your own point of view)

Russell, the most influential British thinker in the 20th century, came to Sichuan, China on 1924. At that time, China was divided by warlords, and the people were in dire straits. It was summer and it was very sultry. Russell and several people accompanying him went to Emei Mountain in the kind of bamboo sedan chair carried by two people. The mountain road was steep and steep, and several porters were so tired that they were sweating. This situation makes Russell not in the mood to see the scenery, but to think about the mood of several bearers.

He thought, the bearers must hate their sedan chairs, and they have to carry them up the mountain in such hot weather. Even they may be thinking, why are they sedan chair people and not sedan chair people?

Arriving at a small platform halfway up the mountain, Russell got off the bamboo sedan chair and carefully observed the expression of the sedan chair bearer. He saw the bearers sitting in a row, taking out their pipes, talking and laughing, and didn't mean to blame the weather or the people in the sedan chair. They also told Russell jokes about their hometown with great interest, asked Russell some foreign things curiously, and laughed happily from time to time during the conversation.

Russell told this story in his article The Character of China People. And he came to the conclusion that it is wrong to look at other people's happiness with self-righteous eyes.