(1160 words)

In the long history of human history, there are many things.

There are big things, earth-shattering, and small things, insignificant.

People have different attitudes towards big things and small things.

They tend to attach importance to big things, and they tend to ignore small things, believing that small things are too small to be taken seriously.

We believe that we should not only pay attention to the big things, but also ignore the small things, because the small things are not small.

The ancients said, "Accumulate soil into mountains, wind and rain prosper, accumulate water into abysses, dragons give birth, so do not accumulate steps, there is no way to lead to thousands of miles, do not accumulate small streams, there is no way to become rivers and seas." "Big things are made up of small things, and without small things, there can be no big things.

Neither the big nor the small can exist independently, and the two are inextricably linked.

The great communist fighter Lei Feng is great precisely because of the great spirit and character that are brought together by ordinary things.

He served the people, starting from small things, he helped his sister-in-law to hold the child to find relatives on a rainy day, he once helped the factory push bricks when he was sick, he also used his allowance to help comrades in difficulty, he even picked up a nail brick, laid a solid foundation for the high-rise buildings of socialism.

It is precisely all these small things, not a single earth-shattering event, are some insignificant little things, and it is precisely these little things that constitute the feat of a revolutionary soldier who devotes his limited life to unlimited service to the people, and it is these small things that reflect the noble sentiments of a revolutionary soldier and converge into the great soul of a communist fighter, and it is precisely the ideological foundation laid by the accumulation of these ordinary little things that led to the great feat of Lei Feng sacrificing his precious life in order to save his comrades。

In the history of Lei Feng, although there is no sky-high fire in Shangganling, nor the amazing snowstorm in Yunzhou West Village, we can completely say that Lei Feng is as great as Huang Jiguang and Liu Hulan.

It can be seen that only by starting from small things and cultivating one's noble sentiments can we rush forward without hesitation at the most critical moment, and in the face of the severe test of life and death, we can dedicate everything.

Therefore, the fact that thousands upon thousands of small things can converge into a rolling torrent of socialism is closely related to the party's cause and the interests of the people, and it reflects the characteristics and features of the times.

On the flip side, small things are not small.

The ancients said that "a thousand miles of embankment is destroyed by an ant", which means that often small things can bring extremely serious consequences to people.

A worker in a timber processing factory, after smoking cigarettes, threw cigarette butts with fire everywhere, and the result was a spark that not only burned down the factory, but also burned the entire factory and even the neighbors, causing a loss of 750,000 yuan.

This serious consequence was caused by a small cigarette butt. How shocking are the serious consequences of such a trivial matter?

Therefore, the small things are not small, the small see the big, and the whole leopard can be seen at a glance, and the small things contain big truths. It can be seen that small things are the constituent components of big things, the foundation of big things, and big things are the confluence and crystallization of small things.

In short, small things and big things complement each other and are inseparable.

That's why we need to get the little things right.

Whenever something comes up, we can't look down on it and ignore it.

Think of the small things that can become big things, and the big things that can be transformed into small things. We must strengthen our self-cultivation in small things, hone our will, and learn the ability to transform the world.

On the bad side, we can nip bad things in the bud and prevent them from happening, so as to avoid shocking events and losses to our great cause.

It doesn't matter if we take the little things lightly, just remember to "make amends" and correct them in time before it's too late.

(November 1985)