"People are old and can't remember."
"That's it! But the teacher asked me to read and recite every day, and I can't remember. It's no use looking around every day. "
"Oh, it's no use reading every day?" Grandpa slowed down and picked up a bamboo basket in the corner of the balcony, which is usually a black bamboo basket with briquettes. He said to Xiaoming, "Son, go and get me a bamboo basket of water."
Xiaoming took a bamboo basket to scoop water in the pool in front of the house. He carried it into the house and saw that the bamboo basket was empty and there was no water.
"Grandpa, I'd better fetch water for you in a bucket."
"No, I just need a basket of water."
Xiao Ming had to go to the pool with a bamboo basket to fetch water again. If he does this again and again, he can't bring a basket of water to his grandfather.
"You see, I would have said that water should be carried in buckets. Are you torturing me and wasting my energy? It's useless! " Xiaoming has some complaints.
"How can you say it's useless?"
"What's the use of that?"
"Look carefully, what's the difference between this bamboo basket and the one I gave you before?"
"Oh, it's clean now. It's not that dark and dirty anymore."
"This is the role of your bamboo basket to carry water. Although you can't bring water back, it's not a waste. Because the bamboo basket has much contact with water, it has been washed by water and changed its previous appearance, becoming clean and beautiful! "
"So that's it! Then, the labor I just carried water also gained! " Xiao Ming said excitedly.
"yes! Children, as long as a person insists on reading and studying, even if he can't remember it for a while, he forgets to learn, as if doing nothing; However, as long as you make friends with books every day, over time, the books you read will make you clean and shiny like this bamboo basket. "
Xiao Ming listened quietly and seemed to understand the significance of grandpa's reading every day-reading and learning is a step-by-step process, and every effort you make for it is effective.
In fact, everyone has paid this kind of labor in his life. Many times, some things we do seem useless, and our efforts seem futile, because the results are not immediate or immediate. However, from another angle, we can find the meaning of things. As the saying goes, the East Corner is Sang Yu, and the past never forgets the future.
This is called one by one.
What do grandpa and grandson do when they study?
draw water with a bamboo basket—achieve nothing
"Ask the canal so clearly,
Because there is inexhaustible living water for it. "