A public good that is low to the dust
Hope that shines like a star
There have always been people who feel that doing public welfare is a great thing, and many people will be proud of their "volunteer" status. But there are many such members in this heart, they are doing public welfare with a very normal attitude, they even refuse the existence of "name", they pay silently, but in the public welfare, constantly looking for their own life value. Wang Yanming, a member of the Love Performing Arts Troupe, is such a person, and came to listen to him talk about his "trivial" "little things" on the road of public welfare.
Through a short conversation, the reporter could feel that Wang Yanming was a humorous and knowledgeable talent. With a medical background, he has a wide range of subjects, studying psychology, forming a band to create music, and his rich life experience is everywhere in the chat, and occasional self-deprecation can always cause people around him to laugh. Wang Yanming is now engaged in the planning of public welfare advertisements, through his own understanding to make public welfare publicity more colorful and easy to enter the hearts of the public, is such an excellent person, his career and reputation are very light, "send mayflies in the heaven and earth, a drop in the ocean", he believes that this is his role in public welfare undertakings.
Since joining the organization in 2010, Wang Yanming has accompanied the organization to grow and grow in the past 11 years, and he also knows the bitterness behind the growth. At the beginning of the establishment of the organization, Chairman Huang Da ran around with enthusiasm for everyone's rights and interests, and all kinds of hardships Wang Yanming saw in his eyes. He believes that it is indeed a great thing for the founders of the organization to come together to do the same thing for the same faith, to discover the good side of human nature, nameless and unprofitable. It is this sense of recognition, appreciation and belonging that has sustained Wang Yanming to this day. In his eyes, his contribution is insignificant compared to everyone, and he will try to do the little things he can to support here.
When the reporter asked him, what was the one thing that touched you the most about volunteering? Wang Yanming's answer somewhat surprised us: "No." In his opinion, what he does is nothing more than performing, enriching the lives of the elderly and children, and chatting with them, because what he does is to try to make everyone laugh, and he can't really go into each other's hearts, if the other party likes it, he feels very satisfied with a smile in return.
"I think the most important thing about doing public welfare is: don't feel like you're doing public welfare. You have to respect the other person, see the other person as important, see yourself as an unimportant person, and don't feel that you are giving charity. Whether you are good or not depends on how the other party understands, you can't force others to give feedback, let alone moral kidnapping, turning good into evil. What I do is ordinary, there is nothing to praise. To do public welfare, you should lower your posture, even to the dust, which is the best respect for the object of help. ”
As he has been engaged in public welfare for many years, Wang Yanming has his own understanding of the current situation and drawbacks of public welfare in China. "China's public welfare lacks a broad mass base and lacks basic public welfare education. From a young age we know to do good deeds and help others, but no one has ever told us why we do it. For example, everyone knows to respect the old and love the young, but no one tells you why you want to do it, you just know that you should do it, and your teachers and parents tell you that you should do it. In fact, respecting the elderly means respecting the life experience of the elderly; Loving children is to love the infinite possibilities of children... But no one ever told us that. ”
Faced with such a problem, Wang Yanming led by example and instilled the concept of public welfare in his children from an early age. For example, go to the park to play on the slide, the slide is dirty and ask the child to wipe it, tell him that this is to clean when other children play, and he is also very clean, at least your clothes are not dirty, and your mother does not need to wash them when you go home. "Start small, so that when the child grows up, he will know why he wants to do public welfare."
Wang Yanming said frankly that when people reach middle age, they have to bear many pressures from life and family, and the time to do public welfare is indeed not as abundant as before. But he will not give up, because in this heart team, you can feel everyone's enthusiasm and the light of humanity, at least everyone is doing good deeds without reward. In his words: "This is a group of respectable 'fools', I will not leave them!" ”
Department of Public Welfare and Cultural Communication
on 19 Feb 2021