The rewards of public service

Time：2011-05-23

○ Zheng Weining Secretary General of the Charitable Foundation

In recent years, I've been asked, "What is your motivation for staying engaged in public service activities? Why do you continue to do so when there are no benefits to be gained from the process?" I thought about it and thought about it again, but I answered, "It's my conscience and sense of responsibility." Most of the people who asked were not too satisfied and asked again, "What about the most fundamental motivation?" I knew that what they wanted to say was, "What do you really get out of it?" These days, people really don't believe that a person will give without asking for anything. I've kept this question in my heart, and I keep asking myself, "What do you get out of it?"

Of course, I believe that I have gained something, whether it is related to the touching or the warmth of meeting like-minded people, is a rare harvest and the wealth of life, but this is not all. In a sunny morning, I hold the "John Christopher" sitting on the sofa reading, suddenly as if a light shines into the mind, I understand: it is the 12 years of public welfare road, so that I hide in the corner from a corner of the disabled woman dare not see people, grew into many large-scale public welfare activities organizers, generous with all walks of life to communicate with the community, and no longer afraid. In fact, in addition to those gains that come with the water, there are also the enhancement of abilities, broadening of horizons, expansion of mind, and far-sightedness. These qualities have unconsciously filled my mind, making my life abundant, renewed, and growing ......

The harvest is so great!

I went from being a person who sees things and does things to a person who is actively involved in public welfare.

When I see people in difficulty, and also within my reach, I can not avoid; when faced with the request for help, and the responsibility is still in it, I can not refuse; when I know that the people facing difficulties, although unable to fundamentally change anything, but also can not pretend not to see, I just know that I put my best efforts, do not care about the results! ......

I just do what I can, just do what I happen to come across, just like that, time like water, passing, days gradually more and more things gradually more and more ......

And that only want to hide in the small nest of me, has fundamentally changed, I know: each person, are not by their own strength to live, people are living in groups of animals, must help each other in order to survive. And the world that everyone helps each other is heaven; on the contrary, everyone hurts each other's society, is hell!

It is in the public welfare, I understand a lot of people do things, understand that people so for people, is to continue to get out of the small me, to the big me; out of the small world of the individual, to the vast new world; out of the narrow "self", to the boundless "mass". The "mass". Human growth, in fact, is a continuous "go out" process, there is no end, only endless far and wide! Only then is it worthwhile for us to bear the suffering and pay for life!

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