Perceptual growth, what does gratitude mean?

Is to thank the people who helped you when you were growing up.

When you are most helpless, the love given by others is like a bonfire to keep you warm in winter. To thank the bonfire, you added some firewood, and the bonfire burned more and more brightly. It warms you and warms more people.

One winter night, a shoemaker came home with a lost child. Since then, he has been repairing shoes in the street. Don't ask who lost the child. He asked people to write down a lot of looking for you, and then took pains to post it on the street. Even acquaintances should go out and ask around. He went to the TV station and tried everything. There is only one thought in his heart, "I must find the parents of the child." A year later, the child's parents found the shoemaker, said a few words of thanks, and hurriedly took the child back. A few years later, a young man registered a website on the Internet and became famous for providing you with search to help thousands of people find their families. Surprisingly, the website is named after the shoemaker. In the prominent position of the website, it is the founder's "looking for you". He is looking for a shoemaker who gave him infinite care many years ago.

This story seems dull, but its meaning is not dull.

Know how to be grateful, you will know how to pay, and you will know how to return. Some people say that the essence of kindness is to have a grateful heart. Only when you know how to be grateful will you know that one meter and one meal are hard-won, cherish everything, appreciate your parents' hard work, stop being indifferent and only ask for it. Only by being grateful can we understand that every consumption in our life is consuming the resources of the earth, so we no longer waste it wantonly. Only by knowing how to be grateful can we understand our life, which is only a combination of nature for thousands of times, so we know how to cherish life, love others and love the world.

We should be grateful for our existence.