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Chapter 60

Chapter 3, Section 17 Virtue is like tinnitus

Zhang Lijun

When talking about the human moon landing plan, I first let the students try to say the names of the spaceship and the astronauts.

"Apollo!"

"Armstrong!"

They answered like this.Soon, the quick-thinking students rushed to say: "I have taken a small step for myself, but mankind has taken a giant leap!"

Of course, they all spoke well. On July 1969, 7, the "Apollo-16" spacecraft entered the lunar orbit after a long journey, and the first human landing on the moon began.The spacecraft landed on the moon, and Armstrong first walked down the 11-meter-high 5-step escalator.When he carefully stood on the unfamiliar moon with his feet, he couldn't help feeling a lot of emotions, and said the words that spread all over the world in an instant.

In fact, there was another person behind Armstrong back then, and his name was Aldrin.

At the press conference celebrating the success of the moon landing, a reporter suddenly asked Aldrin a very sharp question: "Armstrong will go down first and become the first person to land on the moon. As a fellow traveler, do you think A little regretful?" The audience was silent.Everyone quietly gave an answer to this question in their hearts that it was inconvenient to announce aloud.Under the awkward gaze of everyone, Aldrin replied gracefully: "Everyone, don't forget that when I returned to Earth, I was the first to get out of the space capsule...so I came from another planet." The first man on earth."

Decades have passed, and many people no longer remember Aldrin and his generous and humorous answers.But I dare say that after hundreds of years, even if human beings have arrived on the moon to multiply, we will still need the virtues of Aldrin - perfecting others, sharing the happiness of friends sincerely, and not letting dusty worries and annoyances intrude A heart as clean as a lotus.If others get a group of fire called "no regret", please smile and put the piece of ice called "regret" in your hand towards it. When the ice melts, your heart is destined to warm up.The philosopher said: Virtue is like tinnitus.Really, there is a sound, and it is enough to hear it yourself.

【Together with you】

Virtue is ultimately a crystallization of wisdom for us.Without the guidance of wisdom, the formation of virtue will inevitably lack inner support.The "nature" of virtue is incompatible with stupidity and hypocrisy.Stupid thoughts and actions can never breed the genes of virtue; and hypocritical packaging and actions are the breeding grounds for the breeding of evil.Adolescents who grow up with their youth should learn useful wisdom from life and cultivate good virtues in the cultivation of temperament.

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