What Do You Most Value?

王婧雅

    Recently, I read a story called “What Do You Most Value?” and was deeply moved by it.
    The story goes like follows:
    Jack, busying in pursuing his dreams and career, often had no time to spend with his wife and son. He even forgot all about his hometown, his childhood and his old neighbor Belser until one day when he was informed the date of Belser’s funeral. Belser, an old man without any child, always stepped in their house to make sure little Jack had a man’s influence in his life since Jack’s father died. What’s more, he spent quite much time teaching Jack things that were important which, actually, did play a crucial role in Jack’s after life. After the funeral, Jack and his mom decided to visit Belser’s old house next door one more time. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, and every step held memories, except that a gold box, which, according to Jack, hid the thing Belser valued most was not there any more. When returning home, Jack received a mail package. To his surprise, inside was just the gold box. Jack’s heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, he carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a gold pocket watch as well as words engraved: “Jack, thanks for your time!” under the cover. What Belser most valued turned out to be the time Jack shared with him! Holding the watch for a few minutes, Jack called his assistant to clear all the appointments of the following two days, for nothing but some time to spend with his family…
    Putting down the book, I come to think what do we most value nowadays? “Busy” may be the word appears most frequently in our everyday talking today: busy with extra training, busy with China Daily, busy with all kinds of exams, busy with the work, and busy with the future career. We just keep in rush even when we are not quite clear about what on earth are we busy in doing! Seldom, we sit down, calm down and let our hair down, take a breath when beautiful memories or daily movements flash through our minds like old newsreel. We are getting used to taking everything for granted: mother’s text messages reminding warm clothes should be added; lover’s honey words showing how much he misses you, best friend’s countdown for your coming meeting or even the small encouragements together with the sweet smile from your roommates. All these are being ignored. But they do need and only need our attention, our care, our response and, our time. Thinking it twice, we should be happy and thankful, for we are really rich in love. Has anyone ever thought about that what we truly cherish most is just the time together with our beloved ones, parents, lovers, children, good friends? It was they that add more colors to our life and make it quite meaningful, valuable and unforgettable.
    So why not slow down, learn to relieve ourselves from engaging in every day’s trifles and try to share with our beloved ones some time, and tell them: “Thank you for your time!”

[ 本帖最后由 王婧雅 于 2008-12-6 18:21 编辑 ]

Cinderella

Thank you for your time!

And thank God for all the beautiful memories.

王婧雅

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