A Soft Heart We often tell ourselves to be stronger, to be stronger people. In kind, we often ask our children to be strong people as well. However now, at my age, I understand that to have a soft heart is what is truly important in life. When our kids fall down and get hurt, you shouldn’t stifle their crying in the name of strength. Their tears only release their pain and fear. When we tell children to swallow that pain and fear, we teach them that their pain and fear is not important. This way, our children may become “strong”, but in doing so they will also develop an hard and indifferent heart. Pain and fear serve to teach us lessons in life, so we must learn to accept them, overcome them, and then continue to go forward. Only a soft heart can allow us to have sympathy for others, to take care of them, and to soften their hearts in turn through our actions. We have a rigid wall in front of us. We know the the wall will break our heads and leave us bleeding, but we still try to fight our way through that rigidity, throwing straws against the wind. We still choose to fight it, because we tell ourselves not to display cowardice, to be stronger. But does this really show your strength, or does this just show how rash, unreasonable, and frenzied you become when you are blinded by your emotions? Why not let your heart soften? When the road is closed to us, we can choose to avoid it and find another way around. Strength can also mean stubbornness, and if you refuse to change course and abandon your planned destination, it will end badly. In life, there is really only one true destination, and for all of us, that is death. No matter what we do, we are always on our road, and we cannot just stand still in one place all our lives. That is why, in life, only soft hearts can withstand the wind and rain, and only soft hearts can allow their roads to become broader. When we have soft hearts, we will always find ways to help ourselves when we face tough circumstances on our road of life. Even when you do the right things, you must exercise forbearance. Even when someone else makes a mistake, we must act with modesty. This is because we know that forbearance and modesty are characteristics of a soft heart. We know only soft hearts can touch and change another rigid heart to be soft as well. Even you are right, you should not ridicule or tease other people, because a hard heart will only cause other hearts to become harder. When you are talking and debating, other people always notice your demeanor and your emotions first, before they receive your information. If you come off as conceited and rude, people will not want to follow you no matter how right you are. Only soft hearts can teach us to forgive and forget, and in this way, to make way for others is actually to pave the way for ourselves. A soft heart is not a weak heart. To be soft is to be like water, which has more power than anything else in the world. Water is the force that drives all life. The soft heart possesses power that is like that of all rivers as they inevitably make their way to the sea.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:00:23 +0000