One day, a gardener found a pile of dirt on the side of the road. A very fragrant fragrance was emitted from the pile. He took the pile of dirt home. Suddenly, his home was filled with room aroma. The gardener asked the pile of soil curiously and surprised: "Are you a treasure from a big city? Or a rare spice? Or an expensive material?"
The soil said: "None of them. I am just an ordinary piece of soil."
The gardener said: "Then where does your strong fragrance come from?"
The soil said: "I was just in the rose garden. Roses get along with each other for a long time."
What kind of person you get along with will have the same taste over time. Let us not only be close to the soil of roses and absorb its fragrance, but also encourage ourselves to become roses that can bring fragrance to others.
Xunzi said: "The fluffy hemp grows upright without support; the white sand grows black in nirvana." External factors are not the fundamental reason for changing people's character and habits. However, just like the materialist dialectics As I said, it has a stimulating effect on things. Driven by external factors, we are easily influenced by the things around us. As we often say, "If you are close to vermilion, you will be red; if you are close to ink, you will be black." The reason is the same.
This requires us to have the ability to discern, look for environments that are beneficial to ourselves, and stay away from environments that are harmful to ourselves. Although we may sometimes be involuntarily, we must also understand this from the bottom of our hearts