{"id":6121,"date":"2018-07-17T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2018-07-17T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:26:24","slug":"spread-love-and-joy-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6121","title":{"rendered":"Spread Love and Joy in Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spread Love and Joy in Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alex was singing cheerfully on his way home. Why? Because this was his first school day since he moved to a new flat in a new community. He was getting used to his new school life and his new classmates. He was so proud of himself.<\/p>\n

In order to know more about the living environment, Alex walked through every street to discover anything interesting here. Most of the stores were not significantly different from others except one which was so special and drew the attention of Alex. He noticed that there was a long queue in front of a shop which sold congee. What was more was that all those who were lining up were elderly people. The curiosity of Alex was raised. There was \u201ca question mark\u201d hanging in his mind. \u201cWhy are so many senior people gathering there?\u201d \u00a0He took the initiative to have a chat with the owner of the shop, intending to find out more.<\/p>\n

When the long queue disappeared and all the elderly had settled down, Alex took a step forward to the cashier. He saw a tall middle-aged man, with tattoos on both arms. Alex was totally frightened by the appearance of the man. His body was shivering as well as his mouth. He started to stammer in hesitation, \u201cEx\u2026..excuse me, may I ask why there were so many elderlies lining up just now? The lunch time has passed already.\u201d The tall man replied to him in a friendly tone, \u201cBecause they were enjoying free congee.\u201d Alex\u2019s eyes widened showing great curiosity but remained too timid to raise any further questions to the strong built man in front of him. The man realized that the little boy was afraid of him and kept on speaking, \u201cAre you a new comer to this neighbourhood? I haven\u2019t seen you before.\u201d Alex nodded his head silently. The man then continued. \u201cTake a seat here, boy. Let me tell you more about here.\u201d Alex followed him and sat down.<\/p>\n

The tall man put down a bowl of congee in front of Alex. He said, \u201cTry my food. It\u2019s a treat for you.\u201d The smell of it was so good.\u00a0 Alex couldn\u2019t wait to have a try. While he was eating, the man explained about his store. \u201cI am the owner of this congee shop. I have been doing business here for decades. In this estate, more and more people living here become old. Many of them have served our society for nearly a century. Therefore, it\u2019s time for me to serve them back. We insist on providing free congee for the elderly every Monday. We try to ensure that each of them could enjoy a bowl of hot congee every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex raised a question, \u201cWon\u2019t you lose money if you do this every week?\u201d The owner replied, \u201cThat\u2019s the truth undoubtedly. However, the monetary profits can never be compared to the smile on the seniors\u2019 faces. Just like now, I see you are eating with joy, and it brings me much happiness too!\u201d \u201cCan I place an order please?\u201d said one of the customers. \u201cI have to do my work.\u00a0 Enjoy your time in here!\u201d \u00a0He left with a smile.<\/p>\n

For sure, it is not a must for the owner to provide free congee for the elderlies. However, due to his kindness, many respectable seniors are benefited. With good people and good deeds, happiness and joyfulness are spreading in our society!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spread Love and Joy in Societ<\/strong>Alex was singing cheerfully on his way home. Why? Because this was his first school day since he moved to a new flat in a new community. He was getting used to his new school life and his new classmates. He was so proud of himself.In order to know more about the living .........Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s4","schoolyear-77"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}