Translated…
I’d met Liang on a not-for-profit activity, he had similar backgrounds as I, and we shared similar values too, and we’d become the best of friends quickly enough.
He told me he’d been a “mama’s boy” since he was very young, was a total tag-along, his mother who’s an avid Buddhist would head to the temple to recite the Buddhist verse, to offer incense early in the morn, and he’d accompany her there too, and modeled after her behaviors, not acting up. Maybe, it’s because of how long he’d been immersed in Buddhist teachings, he has a gentle heart, shows care and concerns for the world too.
When he went up north for college, every holiday weekend, as his classmates partied hard with their friends, only him, quickly, returned to his parents’ sides.
After he graduated from college, and finished serving his term in the armed services, most of the young students stayed in the cities, but he’d done the exact opposite, returned home, to accompany his parents. The first thing he did every morning when he woke up was to go see his parents. And when he has the spare time, he would surely drive his parents places, and would use a humorous way, to share with them, his knowledge; he majored in drama, and his exaggerated moves and words always got his parents laughing hard, he’d become the elderly who entertained his elderly parents.
Once, he’d accompanied his mother to the hospital for physical therapy, after their session, he saw four elderly sitting in the waiting area, with no children close by. After he’d inquired, he’d learned, that all of their children are away, working, and that they didn’t have that much money, and, in order to see the doctor, they could only get up early in the morn, rode out on the very first bus, and after their doctors’ visits, they’d needed to wait for another two hours, for the bus. At that very moment, Liang asked them to get in his car with his own mother, and, although he was driving beyond the maximum passenger capacity, the atmosphere in his car was very warming.
Since, Liang’s sedan became a specialty vehicle for the hospital visits, as he drove his mother to the hospitals, he’d made visits to the more distant Wandan, and took those four other elderly to the hospital too, rain or shine. Once, he was pulled over by the highway patrol, at the moment the officer was writing out a ticket, the four elderly begged on Liang’s behalf, after knowing the whole story, the highway patrol gave him the thumbs up, commended Liang for not just being kind, but also willing to help out, and, changed the ticket, to just a warning.
Some say, “There are two things that can’t wait—doing good, and being kind to one’s own elders.” Now, Liang’s mother passed away for many years now, but he’d still kept up his amazing work of kindness, it’s really amazing.
And so, this man may have started chauffeuring the elderly to and from the hospital to give his own mother company, and, after he realized that what he was doing was helping out the other elderly, he’d started doing it, because he found a need that he could give.