A mother-to-child dialogue

A mother-to-child dialogue

Article: Zhang Quanling

Read aloud: Pan Wenjuan Wang Yulin

Son: Mom, I discovered a secret.

Mother: What secret?

Son: Journey to the West is actually a book about multiplication. Because, Sun Wukong will change eight nine seventy-two, pig eight precepts will change six six thirty-six, Tang monk must go through nine nine eighty-one difficulties.

Mother: It is true, Yulin, after you memorized the nine-nine multiplication table, you got to know the tools of a world, and the more you know, the more wonderful your world becomes.

Son: I want to know a lot about the world.

Mother: At your age, there are actually two ways to learn more about the world: the first way is to read more books, because there is an author's world hidden behind each book; the second way is to experience.

Son: Reading and experience.

Mother: Yeah, my mom worked as a journalist, and I was always so eager to experience things that others didn't experience, to meet people I hadn't seen, and to talk to them about life experiences that others didn't know.

Son: You have seen so many people, and if you live a lifetime, isn't that the same as other people living for several lifetimes?

Mother: Yes, your world has become bigger.

Son: I want to make my world bigger.

Mother: Yulin, you already know that the world is not perfect, there are bad people, there are incurable diseases, and there are gray smog days, but as long as our hearts are bright, we will not get lost.

Son: How can we brighten our hearts?

Mother: Then light up three lights. The first light is called kindness. Kindness is to take the withered plant of the neighbor's house home from the garbage can, rescue it, maintain it, wait for it to bloom, and then send it back to the neighbor's house. When you see the surprise on the face of the neighbor's aunt, do you think it is very bright? Kindness is the big hug you give a classmate when he is sad and crying. Did you feel warm at that time? The second light is called forgiveness, and you don't remember once a big classmate in the class hit you on the head.

Son: Yes, but then he helped me move my things back to the dormitory, so we were still good friends.

Mother: You see this is called forgiveness, we are often hurt in this imperfect world, but the first step to healing ourselves is to forgive. Hatred and anger often torment us longer than those things that hurt us.

Son: If you are always angry, you will have no friends.

Mother: Yes, the third light is called faith. We watched a news together that a dog walked thousands of miles to find its owner, and it must believe that the owner loves him very much, so that he can endure the hard work all the way and never give up. Therefore, a person who believes in others can get more love, and do not hurt the belief of others.

Son: Kindness, forgiveness, and belief. Mom, I remember these three lights.

Mother: One day you will grow up and go on your own, as a mother, maybe I will worry, but I will let you go, I believe that as long as these three lights are on, it will warm your heart and illuminate a big world for you.

(China Railway Construction Employee e Home)