[New post] With Tar Covering Up His Shoes, Huang Built the Bridges, Paved the Roads, for Thirty Years
taurusingemini posted: " Here's a man, who'd, given everything he's got, to better the lives of those in his, hometown, off of the Newspapers, translated… Every morn, as the skies just turned white, Huang put on his work boots, and readied for work, headed out, this pair of t"
Here's a man, who'd, given everything he's got, to better the lives of those in his, hometown, off of the Newspapers, translated…
Every morn, as the skies just turned white, Huang put on his work boots, and readied for work, headed out, this pair of tar-covered, heavier as the days went by pair of work boots of his, had followed him, as he'd, paved many a bridge, filled up, a ton of potholes on the roads, and, he wouldn't dispose of them, until, they're, opened up at the front. As soon as he left his home, the Jia-Yi Goodwill Group's road fixing crew is already, speeding close, the workers greeted each other good morning, Huang got on, and started the daily routines of fixing up the roads he'd begun some thirty odd years back.
The seventy-eight year-old man, Huang worked as a volunteer paver of local roads, builder of bridges, from before, because his older sister lived close to the office of the goodwill group, she'd gotten involved in volunteering first, and, she saw that he was leisurely on the weekends, she'd pulled him along, for him to exercise his muscles and bones, to help building the bridges, and, he'd become, "stuck" in this calling once he'd, started scraping the sands together, moving the concretes a day at a time, he'd laughed and said, "I can't go back now!" of his volunteer work.
the man...photo courtesy of UDN.com
He'd told, that at the start of his volunteer career, he was still working at a public office, and he'd started, moving the items, digging for the foundations, mixing the concrete, although he felt tired in his body, but he was, more, fulfilled then, and since, he'd gone to help build the bridges every single week.
He stated, that over a decade ago after he'd retired, there are more time then, for him, to help pave the roads, later he'd, bought a professional tar truck that helps pour down the tar on the roads, more sturdy after the roads were, paved.
with his shoes covered in tar...photo from UDN.com
"The foreman, Huang was always first!", the C.E.O. of his group, Goodwill Chiayi, Kuo told, that every time Huang helped with building of the bridges, to patch up the roads, he'd always stood first in line, worked the hardest job, his face was often covered in dusts, ashes, with that heavy layer of tar covering up his work boots, and others around him reminded him that he should get a brand new pair, he'd smiled and said, "the boots now withstands high heat, easier for me to work in!"
And so, this is how you can become, generative (in generativity vs. stagnation???) after you retired, find that something you can pour your hearts and soul into, and just do it, like this man, who saw a need, and, provided it.
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