Article "Step into the World of Kindness"

Step into the world of kindness

□Article/Quisha

My 5-year-old son raised a goldfish. He loves goldfish as much as I love him.

Every once in a while, he would throw some fish food into the goldfish tank. I told him that he only needed 3 fish food a day, otherwise it would bloat to death. He nodded, but soon after, when he saw the goldfish opening its mouth in the water, he forgot again and said, "The goldfish is hungry. Do you think it is asking me for something to eat?" I was too lazy to pay attention to him and let him go. Hello.

When I woke up the next morning, I saw the goldfish floating on the water with a distended belly, already dead. My son was still sleeping on the bed, and I said to him: "The goldfish is dead." My son opened his eyes, lifted the quilt, and ran to the goldfish tank with bare feet. As soon as he saw the goldfish floating on the water, he stayed there.

I asked him what was wrong. He turned his face away and his mouth became flat. After a while, tears rolled down drop by drop. He hugged my leg and finally cried: "The goldfish is dead."

At that moment, I suddenly realized that this was a different kind of crying. In the past, he cried when I spanked him for disobedience, cried when he accidentally fell while walking, and cried when he went to the hospital for an injection when he was sick... These tears were all made when he suffered pain and grievances. He never cried for others. . But now he was crying over a goldfish. He already has the concept of death in his heart and has the awareness of kindness.

I will always remember this day: he successfully stepped into the world of kindness.

I saw two pieces of news like this in an abstract magazine.

One: In a bicycle advertisement in the UK, a group of cute orangutans wearing sportswear are riding small bicycles shaking their heads. Behind them is a slogan: "Give me peanuts and I'll be yours." !" This advert belongs to the UK's largest bicycle and car parts chain. However, since the advertisement was aired, the British Independent Television Commission has received hundreds of complaints, believing that the advertisement "mocks orangutans", "unloving and inhumane"... Animal organizations have also come forward to criticize and demand that the advertisement be stopped immediately.

Second: A frustrated man in a certain place wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a building. The downstairs was full of people watching the excitement. The suicidal man was lingering on the roof, but the crowd downstairs kept encouraging the suicidal man to jump down, cheering and applauding from time to time. The suicidal man finally jumped down, and the onlookers applauded.

Coincidentally, these two pieces of news were printed on both sides of the newsprint. Was it intentional arrangement by the editor, or was it an unintentional coincidence?

But this kind of "coincidence" is indeed full of irony, which makes people feel twice as happy when watching any news, one is warm and the other is sad.