Who has had the greatest impact on your life?
In the long journey of life, many people would leave their footprints in our trip. Someone make us happy, someone make us sad, someone give us important advice on the crossroad of life, and someone care us all the time. The most important person in my life is my father, who gave me life and influenced me with his own behavior. I’m deeply influence by father’s warm heart to the vulnerable group.
My father is a national civil servant. He has a strong sense of responsibility and great concern to the public. Father has a warm heart and he is always ready to help those in need. When meet with beggars along the road, father always takes out his changes to them. When find the old have difficulty in crossing the road, he would always company them to cross it, even he doesn’t go the same direction with them. He often tells me that “It is better to give than to receive.” Every year, father plays an active role in donations for the impoverished mountainous areas and earthquake disaster region. In these donation activities, father often encourages me to make a donate in my own name. While seeing these who need help obtains what they need, there will be a great psychological satisfaction. Father would like me to experience the happiness by myself.
There is one thing I can still clearly remember. Several years ago in an afternoon, while we passed through the community, an old grandmother of our neighbor sat in the beach along the little part depressed. After communication, we know that she had lost her loved pet dog, which she had raised for many years. The old grandmother looked for the dog round the community, but didn’t find it. Viewing old grandmother’s sad motion, I felt that I had to do something. I looked at father’s eyes, from where I got positive answer. Father and I looked for the dog from every corner of the community, but we didn’t find it. As it became late, the search got difficult. We went to the neighboring communities. After careful and patient search, we found the poor little one hide behind a garbage can. We brought the little dog to the old grandmother. Seeing the lost loved dog returned again, the old grandmother cried with joy. Father held my shoulder and we smiled at each other.