"The Count of Monte Cristo" is an immortal classic about hatred, in which the good people take revenge, the evil people are discredited and deserved.
And through hatred and revenge, the story finally makes people understand:
Longer and more profound than revenge is the retribution.
There are many kinds of sins in the world, and they cause sorrow, pain, darkness, and hatred.
However, the opposite of this gratitude makes people more warm and fulfilled.
Those who know how to be grateful and actively repay gratitude, no matter in good times or adversities, will eventually return to the peace of the soul and achieve the happiness of human nature.
Only with gratitude will we repay the favor. Only by actively repaying gratitude is true gratitude. Life is short, repay the favor, give these three kinds of people.
Repay the favor and give it to the people who cross you
The Buddha said, "Purify all beings." In real life, we inevitably encounter difficulties and are on the verge of danger. At this time, we need to cross ourselves, and we need people who can cross us.
And such a person is a once-in-a-lifetime nobleman and a benefactor who is hard to find. In the darkness, they let us get rid of bad luck and turn the danger into a disaster.
In "The Count of Monte Cristo", the protagonist in danger is able to reverse his fate because he meets such a key person. This man allowed him to cross the fog of life and life and gain rebirth.
Dontese, a young sailor of integrity and kindness, is framed for the jealousy of the villain and placed in a dark dungeon on an isolated island.
When he was desperate and helpless, preparing to die of hunger strike, an old prisoner in the next cell was secretly digging tunnels day and night, preparing to escape from prison.
The old prisoner's unwilling spirit of submission shocked him strongly, and the companion in the predicament rekindled his hope of survival.
Where there is hope, pain also becomes joy. The old prisoner, who was originally a learned priest, taught Dontese the lessons of his entire life and helped him analyze and point out several of the evil men who had framed him in prison.
Together, they dug tunnels and finally dug the exit. When everything was ready, the old priest suddenly suffered a stroke.
At the moment of the first attack, Don Taisi gave up the opportunity to escape, choosing to stay and accompany the old man in pain. When the old man was dying, he told a shocking secret:
On the island of Monte Cristo, he buried a pile of treasure.
And the death of the priest also allowed Don Taisi to use the strategy of stealing the sky to change the day, drill into the body bag, be thrown into the gushing sea, and finally escape to heaven.
People are always mutual. In desperate circumstances, the old priest brought hope and guidance to Dontés.
Because of this precious help, DonTaisi does not forget to be grateful and repay.
In the face of the recurrence of the old priest's old disease several times, he took good care of it and did not abandon it.
And the old priest also left all his wealth to the young man on his deathbed, as a reward.
Knowing the gratitude map, good is not great. This reward allows Dontese to obtain great wealth and excellent opportunities, so as to make sufficient preparations for subsequent survival and revenge.
On the contrary, if he is ungrateful and leaves the dying old man to flee for his life alone, fate does not know what is possible.
Rousseau said, "Without gratitude, there is no real virtue." ”
At any time, adhering to this virtue will eventually lead to justice and peace, good luck or miracles.
Han Xin was a poor and unable to make a living, often hungry and full. I had to meet the "drifting mother" to share her own food with him. After becoming famous, he never forgot the grace of a meal, and finally gave it a thousand gold gifts.
Duke Wen of Jin went into exile in the Chu state, and King Cheng of Chu treated him with the courtesy of the monarch. After the dynasty came to power, the two countries fought at war, and in order to repay the courtesy, they retreated and kept their promises.
There is a cloud in the "Awakening to the Everlasting Word": "The great grace has not been repaid, and it is engraved in the heart." Tie the knotted grass, life and death do not bear. ”
Life is like the sea, in the vast darkness, who gave you the courage to cross you forward?
Repay the favor and give it to the people who cross you.
Repay the favor to those who have helped you
As the saying goes, it is easy to add flowers to the icing on the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. Things are changeable and people's hearts are unpredictable.
When you are in the face of adversity, the people who can really reach out to help you are worth cherishing and need to be repaid. Because, helping you is a sentiment, not helping is a duty, there is nothing to take for granted.
The innocent Dontese spent fourteen years in prison. During this period, my father was old and frail, unsupported, and in a difficult situation.
It was at this time that his employer, Morrel, was once appreciated and promoted.
Risking political risks, he rescued him from many sources, and received and cared for his poor and sick old father.
When he finally died, he generously paid all the rent and funeral expenses for him and took care of the aftermath.
For an old subordinate who has disappeared for many years, there is no contact, no request, only by virtue of the trust and friendship of the past, sympathy for the elderly.
Such good deeds and compassion for the weak are touching.
The grace of the dripping water should be repaid with a gushing spring. Not to mention such a great grace?
Dontés, who ventured out of prison and gained great wealth, learned of his father's situation and the first thing he had to do was to repay his kindness.
So, when the benefactor was on the verge of bankruptcy, struggling, and even reached the point of committing suicide with a gun, he saved the benefactor in time with a letter and a check for 200,000 yuan.
And when the benefactor's son encountered danger, he once again stepped forward to protect and help.
Until the end, when the revenge plan was completed, he left most of his wealth to the benefactor's son. In his heart, compared with the favor he had received, his own efforts were not enough and not deep enough.
Confucius Ziyun: "Kindness wants to be repaid, and resentment is desired to be forgotten." The complaint is short, and the reward is long. ”
No matter how deep the hatred, it can always be wronged and written off. But the kindness is the most touching, no matter how much in return, it seems that it cannot be repaid.
As the saying goes, you can't owe anything to human feelings. Nothing can hurt feelings. Because, human feelings and feelings go straight to the heart, it cannot be calculated, it cannot be measured.
Only those who feel this affection will understand and cherish it.
The hands that reach out to us in those difficult situations are always so warm and touching that we believe that the world is beautiful and worthwhile. And using actions to be grateful and repay kindness will make love continue to flow and continue to circulate.
"Hello, Li Huanying" is on fire, and Jia Ling, who is completely on fire, also bluntly said that she counterattacked and succeeded, thanking the noble people in her life: her mother, sister, and master Feng Gong.
This film full of true feelings is Jia Ling's return to her mother's love, her sister's explanation, and her master's return.
Netizens have pointed out that once, Feng Gong was Jia Ling's nobleman, and now, Jia Ling has become Zhang Xiaofei's nobleman.
Those who are blessed are blessed, and those who love to come out love to return.
Giving kindness is the most authentic expression and exchange of love between people. Repay the favor to those who have helped you.
Repay the favor to those who have loved you
There is a saying that goes like this: "No matter how much pain there is in life, as long as there is a loved one, there is no life in vain." "The person who has loved you with all your heart is the greatest luck in your life."
Don Taisi and his lover once went to the wedding hall, but because of the sudden unjust, false and wrong case, they were torn apart.
Years later, the former lovers finally met, but they were doomed to another grudge.
Dontese is forced to have a duel with the other's son.
Thinking of his affection many years ago, he heeded the bitter advice of his former lover not to hurt her son.
However, a duel is a matter of life and death, either you die or I die. Since he promised not to hurt the other party, he was bound to die.
For the sake of this former love, DonTaisi decided to give up revenge and resolutely die.
In the dark dungeon, I spent fourteen years of pain, and the deep hatred accumulated was finally invincible to a heart that had once been in love.
Drunk Fang knows that the wine is strong, and the love party knows that it is heavy. Those who have loved us, we must repay the favor, because that is to face the truest self that has ever been.
At the same time, when the son was shocked to hear the truth, he reverently laid down his arms and apologized to Dontés for bowing down a moment before the duel:
"Thank you for not hurting my father further!"
It turned out that his father was the same enemy who framed Dontese years ago.
True feelings are exchanged for true feelings, and people who know how to be grateful have similar souls. A duel between swords and soldiers, between gratitude and gratitude, turns invisible.
Years can miss many people and things, but the sincerity and sincerity of the past will be preserved in the depths of memory. Even if there is no reason to embrace and keep each other, each other's efforts have long been engraved in life.
However, no matter how complex the world is, how different people there are.
In a similar situation, some people do not understand gratitude, and they hurt others and destroy themselves.
The three evil people who framed DonTais in the story are all ungrateful villains, and the final outcome is either crazy and stupid, or the family is destroyed and the money is scattered.
The illegitimate son of one of the wicked had just come to earth when he was placed in a cold tin box by his biological father and brutally buried under a large tree in the garden.
When his life was on the line, he was discovered by the enemy family and was kindly adopted. But when he grew up, he was selfish and debauched, untamed, and killed his adoptive mother who had worked hard to raise him.
The outcast who survived by chance became the executioner who killed the benefactor, and eventually cocooned himself and went to prison.
Western philosophers say, "Ungrateful people are not saved if they fall into difficulty." Ungrateful people forget and deviate from the most important nature of man, which is gratitude and gratitude. ”
Kindness is love, and there are many people who love us, they are parents, teachers, partners, friends, classmates, and so on. The grace of nurturing, the grace of education, the grace of carrying, the grace of salvation...
However, in the face of this kind of affection, do we learn to cherish and respond positively?
In ancient times, Wang Zuo broke his arm, reported the grace of Yue Fei's knowledge of talent, Bo Ya wrestled the piano, Xie Zhiyin's grace, and even Ti Qian saved his father, Huang Xiang warm mat, lying on the ice to ask for carp, and repaid the grace of nurturing.
No one lives in the grace of being loved. No one, no need to repay the favor. Repay the favor to those who have loved you!
The Count of Monte Cristo says:
There is no happiness in this world, and there is no unhappiness. Only those who have experienced extreme unhappiness can taste extreme happiness. Only those who have made up their minds to die can understand how good it is to be alive.
And from unhappiness to happiness, from near-death to survival, there are many love-hate entanglements, enmity and hatred.
The ancients said that good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not yet come. Admittedly, Skynet was restored, and it was not leaked. Those who do evil will eventually pay the price.
And in the face of tribulation, in the face of hatred, people will always be slowly healed. But if you cling to hatred, you will deviate from the normal track of life.
If you indulge in revenge, you will torture others, hurt the innocent, wear yourself out, and miss too many scenery.
Only by repaying kindness, timely gratitude, can we enrich and sublimate our lives. Let our lives be devoid of regrets, without regrets, worthy of the benefactors and good people who once put us in the palm of our hands.
Mao Zedong, a great man of a generation, once said: "Every day in life, everyone repays the favor." ”
In our lifetime, we should cherish and repay:
Those who have given us guidance in times of difficulty and despair, let us be born again, and transmute our people;
Those who have escorted us and helped us in adversity and dilemma;
People who once loved us deeply, warmed and touched us.
In our lifetime, let us do more valuable things. Cherish the time and feel the good. Not for revenge, only for the sake of gratitude.
Author | Distant mountains and near waters, the human story is spread in every inch of the text.
Anchor | Beichen, gold medal anchor, psychological expert, public number: Beichen is looking for you.
Image | Stills from The Count of Monte Cristo