There is a young man of twenty, named Guo Shijun, living in the Anhui province, China. A few years ago, his mother was left mentally disabled from a battle with meningitis. What was worse, his father was injured after falling fifteen meters off of a bridge and became paralyzed from the waist down. Despite such insurmountable odds, he was a good student earning top marks at school.
However, before entering university, he had a big problem. Although the university welcomed him, exempting him from paying the tuition and promising to give him a scholarship, and his grandfather promised to take care of his mother, he had no one to take care of his father who was left alone. So he earnestly asked the university to allow him to live with his father in the dormitory. The university was so moved at his great filial piety that the school willingly let him bring his father. Finally, he could study at the university, taking care of his father. At every meal time, he wholeheartedly cooks for his father and puts it in his mouth and frequently turns his body to prevent bedsores. After his father falls asleep, he carefully switches on the desk lamp and studies silently at the opposite side of the bed.
Shijun said, “I can’t say life is easy but the only way out of the problem is through hard work so I’m not complaining.”
At the words of the young man who is making every effort to do his filial duty at the age to enjoy his youth, we come to think over what working hard is.