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The Heart  
 

Third Place Winner of ROC Speech Contest1994.12.27  Andreas Ouyang   China

 


20 years ago, a popular song named "Torn between two lovers " was being played in my home, I saw my brother lying on bed, staring at the ceiling without any facial expressions, so I asked him "Hey ! what's the matter with you ?" He told me "My girl friend said good-bye to me, my heart is broken" - I found his broken heart.

10 years ago, sexual harassment was getting serious in office. One day I saw my young, beautiful, nice-figure female fellow worker wearing a new sweater, if I said to her "It's a good looking sweater" - that's a compliment, but regretfully, I said to her "Wow ! you really fit in with the sweater", and that's a sexual harassment, so I was blamed "Andreas, your heart is dirty" - I found my dirty heart.

6 months ago, I watched TV, the South African black leader - Mandela was the winner of the presidential election. For celebrating the victory, he danced in front of hundreds of cameras and thousands of people, his heart is happy - I found his happy heart.

Is it possible for our hearts being broken, dirty or happy ? In literature, yes ! Not only our hearts can be broken, dirty or happy, but also can be strong, weak or romantic. But scientifically speaking, it's highly unlikely that our hearts can be broken, if that's true, my brother will be the God, and I'll be the junior God.

How many hearts can we have within our life span? My answer is that there are 3 hearts for human beings, they are physical heart, mental heart and virtuous heart.

There is no exception for you and me to have one physical heart, it's a never-stop pumping organ which normally beats 75 times per minute, and transporting nutrition and oxygen by blood through blood vessels to our whole body, our hearts squeeze 5 liter blood every minute for our needs, if it stops beating, we'll be the God. The best way to maintain our hearts in good condition is to "exercise" - Few years ago, I lived in Yungho, one day I passed by "River Side Park" beside Fuho bridge, I saw a sixty years weak old man with his stick, and he was blocked by a seventy semi-crazy strong old man, the seventy asked the sixty "You ! say Jesus Christ Haliluya for 3 times, otherwise, I won't let you go", but the sixty weak old man tried to go around, unfortunately, he was always stopped by the seventy strong semi-crazy old man, finally he obeyed the rule to say "Jesus Christ Haliluya" for 3 times, then he was let go. By seeing that, I was inspired to exercise,that's why I go to YMCA to swim once a week, I hope someday when I'm seventy, I could insult a sixty years weak old man "You ! say Jesus Christ Haliluya for 3 times, otherwise I won't let you go."

Now, let's talk about our mental heart. Generally speaking, the so-called mental heart is our brain, according to human body science, the capacity of our brain is 2,200 cubic centimeters, and formed by 14 billion cells managing our memory, thinking and analysis. But practically, when we mention our mental heart, it usually refers to our mind. The effective way to sharpen our mind is to have empathy. When I was a teenager, I often said to my friends, "My old man doesn't understand me, we have generation gap." But what if someday my children come up to me and say "Hi ! Dad, we are going to make up a party in the nude," can I say yes to them ? Perhaps, I would say to my son "Hey, can daddy go with you ?", but to my daughter, I would definitely say "No." It's not easy to have empathy from time to time. So to sharpen our mental heart, we need more empathy to our friends, fellows or even our opponents.

As for the virtuous heart, simply saying - it's the law or legislation, because legislation is supposed to be the bottom or the lowest standard for society. The best way to enhance our virtuous heart is to think we really are "somebody" - take Japan as an example; the former Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano announced that the masscre in Nanqing was fake, later on, facing the overwhelming condemnations from other Asian countries, he stepped down his 10 days' position. Why he was demanded to quit only due to one word ?

......Take Japan as an example; the former Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano announced that the massacre in Nanking was fake, later on, facing the overwhelming condemnations from other Asian countries, he stepped down from his 10 days' position. Why he was demanded to quit only due to one word? The reason is because the person in such a high position is not expected to deny the history, if the word was said by me, who cares? Therefore, if we target ourselves a little bit higher than we really are, it will surely help us to enhance our virtuous heart.

Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, if we long for an optimistic life based on our healthy body and to be respected, my recommendation is to be cautiously taking care of our "hearts."

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