Regarding what is noble, most people agree with the author Liang Xiaosheng's four-sentence summary: rooted in inner cultivation; awareness without reminder; freedom based on restraint; kindness for the sake of others. The author also feels so.
When the revolutionary teacher Lenin was young, he applied for a job as a staff member. He went upstairs holding the armrests and found that the paint on the armrests was not completely dry. As a result, there was a lot of paint on his hands. It took him a lot of effort to clean his hands. So, he took out a piece of paper and wrote the reminder and pasted it on the wall to prevent the hands of the people behind from being stained by the paint. It just so happened that the boss saw this little detail, admired Lenin, and hired him.
This good quality of putting himself in for the sake of others also laid the foundation for Lenin's success and became a recognized great man in the world.
On the subway, someone fell asleep leaning on the shoulder of a gentleman nearby. After more than ten minutes, someone asked the gentleman if he wanted to wake him up. He said, "Let him sleep, he must be exhausted today. We all have this time, right?" Finally the man woke up, embarrassed He apologized, but he didn't know that the gentleman next to him had sat for twelve stops. This happened in England, and the gentleman said it was a trivial matter, not to mention it. Think empathy, put yourself in the place, and you can appreciate the nobility of this subtlety.
There are more than 2,000 parking spaces at the Volvo headquarters in Sweden. People who arrive early always park their cars away from the office building, every day. Someone asked, "Is your parking space fixed?" They replied, "We arrived earlier, so we have time to go more. Colleagues who arrive late may be late and need to park their car close to the office building. "
An ordinary employee, with a high degree of consideration for others in every little thing, is destined to the industry height of this company. It is not difficult to imagine that this is due to the infiltration of corporate culture.
A ragged and unkempt beggar walked up to a rich man and begged for alms. The rich asked mildly about the beggar and started talking with him. Inadvertently the beggar's crutches hit the rich man's feet, but the beggar never noticed it.
After learning about the plight of the beggar, the rich generously gave the beggar a sum of money. After the beggar left thankfully, the people present asked the rich: "The beggar put the crutches on your feet, why did you endure the pain without saying a word?"
"I'm afraid that I will embarrass him by speaking out, so I am embarrassed to accept my charity again." The kind rich man replied.
In a word, good self-cultivation and dignity of being rich and benevolent lingered in the meantime.
A girl met a wandering singer while shopping with her mother during her holiday. After listening to a song, the girl walked over and threw five yuan into the hat. But then, her mother's behavior surprised the girl. She walked to the hat, slowly squatted down, gently put two one-yuan coins into the hat, and smiled and nodded to the vagrant singer.
The girl's mother is an ordinary housewife and has not studied much. But at this moment, the girls who are about to take the college entrance examination feel that they have lost too much to their mothers.
CCTV previously broadcast a public service advertisement called "Leave a Light to Warm Others", and there is a fragment that is unforgettable: a man came home from night work and saw that the light on the balcony was not turned off, so he asked his wife if he forgot to turn off the light. And prepare to go off by yourself. But his wife stopped him, took him to the balcony, and pointed to a scavenger couple sitting on the tricycle downstairs. It turned out that the couple was talking and laughing while eating with the help of the lights upstairs. Seeing this, the man instantly understood that his wife kept the lamp to illuminate the couple downstairs.
A silver-haired old man, leaning on a cane, walks in the afterglow of the setting sun. The bustling long streets are full of traffic, and the sidewalks are one after another. The old man was a little trembling, walking slowly and cautiously. Because he clearly knew that if he accidentally fell, he would definitely make others feel embarrassed: to help or not to help? Suddenly, he stopped, one hand gripped the cane tightly, bowed down with difficulty, the other hand tremblingly picked up the watermelon rind that was thrown on the ground by an unknown person, straightened up again with difficulty, and put the watermelon rind on the ground. Go into the trash can on the side of the street. Then, walked in obscurity.
This bend is just like "a little effort", it can't be simpler, but some people have to learn for a lifetime!
A wise man once taught his disciples that if glass products are broken, they should be put into a garbage bag and written on it with a pen, "There are glass fragments inside, dangerous!" In this way, the garbage picker will not scratch. Hurt fingers. Between the raised hands, compassion lingered in it.
If someone asks me what nobleness is, my answer lies in the short stories above.
