Happiness is heaven Zhang Baotong 2016.6.12

After cataract surgery, my mother's eyes brightened again. She can watch TV, fill her thermos with boiling water, stop spilling food on the table, see the hands on the clock, and even see the mosquitoes in the mosquito net. How happy it was for her! It was like a blind man suddenly regaining his sight.

The 88-year-old mother seems to be full of satisfaction and joy in life. She feels that the air is so fresh every day, the sunshine is so brilliant every day, and every day of life is a new page of life. She got up early, and whether it was sunny or rainy, she would sit under the eaves, breathe in the morning air, and watch the sun shine on the windows of other people's houses in the building, and on ours in the same way. Although our family does not live in an upstairs house, the sun in my house is as bright and bright as the sun in other people's homes.

She began to water the vegetable patch in front of her door with joy. This is all the water left over from washing her face and vegetables. Because she is reluctant to water the ground with clean drinking water. The vegetable patch is full of tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as some greens, which my sister and my younger sister planted for her during her cataract surgery. Because all the meals she eats are brought to her by my brother every day at noon. Therefore, she rarely eats these vegetables in the vegetable field, and most of them are plucked and eaten by others, but she is still very careful about these dishes. Because she was happy to see that the vegetables in the field were growing well, and then let others pull them out and eat them. There is also a patch of grapes planted in the aisle in front of our house, and in early autumn, there are many crystalline grapes. The wives sat under the grape shed, picking one bunch one day and eating one bunch tomorrow until they had finished eating. It's as if the vegetables and grapes belong to everyone, and my mom is just a volunteer manager. In this regard, I often think that although my mother does not know how to "give roses to others, leave fragrance in your hands", she does it every day.

After watering the vegetable patch, start cooking. My mom has never cared about good food, and the meals were all delivered by my brother at noon yesterday. My mom divided the meal into three meals. If there is not enough food, she will eat one less, and if there is too much food, she will not waste it, but must find a way to eat it all, and she will not waste it at all. Because she came from that hungry era, and my grandmother starved to death in those years. Therefore, whether it is eating water and rice, or eating chicken, duck and fish, my mother is always very satisfied, and her face is always full of smiles.

We have many brothers and sisters, and my father is long gone, so it is difficult for the family. So, everyone else lived in a building, and my mother still lived in a three-room bungalow built in the sixties. But my mom never envied others. She often told us whose child was sick and died, and whose child was gone. However, all of our children are healthy and safe. So, this makes her feel very lucky and satisfied. Because in her mind, it doesn't matter how much money she has. More money lives in a building, less money lives in a bungalow, the more able live better, the poor live a little worse, as long as you are safe and happy, it is better than anything.

When the sun is shining, the wives who live in the building come to my door and sit under the eaves and chat. The content of the chat is almost always which child has a good income, how much money he earns, what kind of car he drives, which child is poor, living in poverty, and his wife is divorced. Although there are people in our family who make my mother proud and worried, she thinks that the children are working hard and it is not easy to live the current life, so she has nothing to complain about and be dissatisfied. Because in her eyes, everyone's life is gradually getting better.

On rainy days, there are still a lot of people in our house. Because my mother's house is a big place, the living room alone is a big house, and you don't have to take off your shoes when you enter the house, no one will say if you step on the muddy water, and you don't even have to knock on the door when you enter the house. Of course, what wives talk about on a rainy day is no different from what they talk about on a sunny day, and it's almost the same cliché. However, it doesn't seem to matter what they talk about, what matters is that they are passing the time.

My mother's happiness is like sunshine, warm and peaceful, so many people come to my mother's house every day. I don't know if it was because I was afraid of being lonely and lonely, or because I was afraid that there would be ghosts at night, I ate and drank at my mother's house for a few days, and I didn't want to go back to my house at night, so I had to live in my mother's house. My mother firmly disagreed, saying that you didn't have a home, so she just drove her away.

When I returned to my hometown for the Chinese New Year, one day my mother felt unwell and fell asleep as soon as it was dark. At this time, a wife came knocking on the door. My mom didn't want to get up and open the door because she had already fallen asleep and it was cold. I was writing in the back room, and I pretended not to hear it. However, the wife smashed the door so loudly that my mother had no choice but to get up and open the door. As soon as she arrived in the house, she shouted and scolded her daughter-in-law. After scolding again, I didn't feel like it was enjoyable, and I started scolding from the beginning again, which annoyed me so much. I think this person is a psychopath, why don't you attack her daughter-in-law if she is angry with her daughter-in-law, and if you want to say it to my mother, it is simply using my mother as a garbage can to vent her anger. So I came out of the back room and shook my face to show her. However, she didn't look at me at all, but just looked at my mother like a machine gun about her daughter-in-law's faults and vices. But my mother had already fallen asleep, so she took a nap and listened to her rambling for an hour or two, and at last she plucked some vegetables from the field and sent her away happily.

I blame my mother for making other people's problems like this. But her mother said that if she was angry in her heart, she would let her get out of her anger, otherwise, it would be bad to hold her anger in her heart, and she would be easy to get sick. I listened to this wife's rambling this time, and I was very annoyed. But my mom didn't know how many hundred or thousands of times she had heard it. Otherwise, I wonder why my mother's popularity is so good, that is, she has never been afraid of losses, and she always thinks about others everywhere.

One of the happiest things in my mother's life is that the local government has handled social security for her two years ago, and she can receive 1,200 yuan per month, plus my father's unit gives her 400 yuan per month. Therefore, you can receive 1,600 yuan per month. My mother regarded this as a blessing from God, and when she thought about it, she was so happy that she couldn't stop talking. She saved the money and the money we sent her, and when she saw a child in need, she went to his aid. She told us that in the past, you used to send me money, and now I can send you money too.

People like to compare, and comparisons will produce feelings of happiness and unhappiness, because people's pursuit and dissatisfaction will never end. Sometimes, if anyone complains a little, my mother will tell him how good life is now, even in the past, the landlord's family could not live such a life. When my mother said this, we felt that we were living a richer life than the landlord's family. Mothers live happily and make us feel happy. No, it is a day to live happily, and it is also a day to live an unhappy life. Every day we spend our days in happiness and unhappiness. Happy people are happy even if they live in the slums, and unhappy people will not be happy even if they live in heaven. Although her mother was uneducated, she had the experience of enduring hardships, a satisfied mentality, a happy mind and the quality of being kind to others, and influenced her family and others with this happy thought and conduct. So, Mother is a happy person, a person who lives in heaven.