Good people and good retribution Zhang Baotong 2017.9.26

A few days ago, a friend told me that good people are not rewarded, and said that "good people don't live long, but wicked people live for a thousand years". I asked him how he came to this conclusion. He told me a story about what happened around him.

He said that there was a person in their village who was very kind-hearted, and his family was so poor that he was dying, but he often gave others what he was reluctant to eat, and as long as others needed it, he could give his own things to others, so the whole village did not say that he was good. However, on one occasion, a man in the village drove a farm cart and pulled a cart of bricks, but the cart was overloaded, so when he climbed a big slope, he couldn't go up. So, he helped people push the cart in the back of the car. However, instead of climbing the hill, the car slipped down the slope and threw him to the ground, and the wheels ran over his neck, breaking his neck in two. For this reason, the people in the village said that if he had not been so kind, he would not have ended up like this. This is called kindness is not rewarded.

Then, he gave another example, saying that there was a woman in the neighboring village who was very kind-hearted, always kind and polite to others, and she always helped enthusiastically when other people's families had difficulties, and did not expect anything in return from others. But man was always sick and died before he was forty years old. And there is another family in the village, the family is bad, not only extremely selfish, but also always relying on their own boys to bully others. However, everyone lived a prosperous life, and their sons built buildings, and the daughters-in-law they found were more beautiful than the other, and the worst old man lived to be more than seventy years old, and he was still full of red faces, and he went to seduce other people's women all day long. Therefore, he came to the conclusion that "the good do not live long, but the wicked live for a thousand years".

Such a conclusion is obviously very one-sided. Whether a person has a good heart or not is determined by his temperament and state of mind, while people's birth, old age, sickness and death are determined by people's life genes and lifestyle, and people's fortunes and misfortunes are caused by a person's sense of safety or accidents.

In the first example, it is clear that the person has a weak sense of security, only cares about helping others, and neglects personal safety. He shouldn't have helped someone else push the cart behind the farm truck, and if the farm truck went backwards and slived, it would cause a disaster to himself. There are many risks and hidden dangers in this life. Especially in today's society, safety hazards and risk accidents often occur and appear. For everyone, it is not only necessary to be a good person, but also to improve safety awareness and pay attention to their own safety. We often say that fire and water are ruthless, not only that fire and water do not recognize people, but also that all kinds of dangers and accidents do not recognize people. Only by enhancing safety awareness and understanding safety knowledge can safety accidents be avoided.

The second example is health. That kind woman was sick all the year round and died young, completely because of her own poor physical condition or lifestyle problems. As someone else, I can only hope or wish her good health and a long life. It's a pity that these hopes and wishes are just a wish of others, and they can't help her own physical condition in any way. For example, we have prayed for a leader or great man to live long and healthy, but that is only a wish and admiration on our part, and it does not prevent them from leaving.

Just as the sun shines on everyone and the rain moistens every land. Birth, old age, sickness, death, and disasters in the world can also befall anyone. There is no such thing as a law that only bad people die in accidents, and good people can live a peaceful life, and similarly, there is no fate that good people do not live long, evil people live for thousands of years, and good people do not have good retribution. This is just a misjudgment of some social phenomena that we ordinary people do not see clearly, or that we are unhappy about some state of affairs.

As for those so-called wicked people, even if they are extremely selfish or unreasonable, as long as they do not violate the law, they can fully enjoy their freedom and life even if they are legal citizens. As for how they lived, no one could interfere. Moreover, whether they are evil or bad people is determined by others according to their own subjective impressions and attitudes. Even if they live better and live longer, it does not lead to the conclusion that "the wicked live for a thousand years".

In fact, there are many incidents in our daily life where "good intentions are not rewarded". For example, if you kindly rescue an old man who was hit by a car, but because the old man did not see who had knocked him down at the time, he assumed that you were the one who knocked him down. For example, if you kindly lend a large sum of money to others, but others can't afford to pay you back, so you chase after other people's butts all day long to ask for debts, and as a result, the two become enemies. If you ride a bicycle with someone, but the car overturns and the person on the bike is broken, they want you to compensate. However, you feel that you are helping someone else and that he should not ask you for compensation, so the two families started a lawsuit. If you help a friend in a fight and you injure someone, you have to pay a lot of money to them. You think you're helping a friend fight, and the money should be paid by the friend, but the friend doesn't pay a penny. For example, if you help someone else look after the house, but when they come back, they say that the family's 10,000 yuan is gone. How do you explain this? In daily life, there will be many such things, is it that when I encounter such a thing, I will also sigh helplessly: good people are not rewarded!

The world is full of different opinions. Every social phenomenon or life phenomenon will have a theory as a support. For example, people who love water will say that drinking more water can reduce blood viscosity and pass urethral stones, while people who do not like water will say that drinking too much water will dilute gastric juice and cause water poisoning. If you want to illustrate that good intentions will be rewarded, you can use words such as accumulating good deeds, being kind and giving, repaying kindness, drinking water and thinking of the source, and giving people roses, leaving fragrance in your hands, dripping grace, and reciprocating with springs. On the contrary, if you want to express that a good person is not rewarded, you can also use many words and allusions, such as unloading the mill and killing the donkey, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, hiding the bow of the bird, cooking the rabbit and the dead dog, and Mr. Dongguo and the farmer and the snake.

Because of our different upbringing and education, each of us has different views and concepts about things. So, we always like to quote and believe theories that share our views and ideas. If we look at the problem with a serious and scientific attitude, in fact, many of the concepts of life and ideological theories that we adhere to are wrong or unrealistic. We should look at the problem with a scientific attitude, and talk about the events that have occurred on a case-by-case basis, and not confuse them with other irrelevant matters. In this way, we will not look at things blindly and one-sidedly.