By reporters Yan Su and Yu Chen, Yu Chen is an ordinary auxiliary police officer of the judicial police team (hereinafter referred to as the bailiff team) of the Taijiang District People's Court in Fuzhou. For the past 15 years, he has had a "special" task every month: on payday, donate some money to the charity organization he trusts.
Chen Yu's income is not high, and his monthly donation ranges from dozens to hundreds of yuan. He never feels that the donation is small, nor does he care about others' opinions. Because he donated secretly, no one knew about it. Until today, 15 years later, his donation receipt was seen by his colleagues.
Chen Yu's experience in doing good deeds is: first, keep a low profile and don't make a fuss; second, make doing good deeds a promise to yourself in life, and never interrupt.
A letter "exposed" a donation history
Every month, Chen Yu would receive a letter from the provincial Red Cross, which caught the attention of his colleague Song Lihong. The careful Song Lihong also found that after Chen Yu received the letter, he did not open it, but put it aside.
Song Lihong told this strange thing to Captain Wu Jianxing. Captain Wu was very curious and wanted to figure it out, so he called Chen Yu to the office. After repeated questioning by the two, Chen Yu finally said that he sent money to the provincial Red Cross every month. In addition to the provincial Red Cross, Chen Yu also sent money online to the One Foundation and other charitable organizations.
Income fluctuates, but kindness continues uninterrupted
Chen Yu, 32 years old this year, has done many jobs, such as clerk, salesperson, and boss. His income has been up and down, mostly around more than 1000 yuan. During the time when he was the boss, his monthly income reached as high as 8000 yuan. Regardless of how much income he had, Chen Yu always completed his monthly donation "task" on time, even without a fixed job, he never interrupted.
Chen Yu said that when he first started working, he had dinner with his manager. When the manager got drunk, he told him about his donation process. From then on, Chen Yu secretly set himself this special "task", imagining helping others like his manager, taking out part of his salary to donate to those in need.
Thus, Chen Yu began donating from the level of an 800-yuan probationary salary. As soon as he got the money, he transferred dozens of yuan to the account of the provincial Red Cross. Later, as his salary rose and fell, Chen Yu sometimes donated dozens of yuan, sometimes hundreds, but he persisted uninterruptedly, even trying to donate a little during economically difficult times.
Advice for doing good deeds: start small, do it quietly, and persist
Chen Yu said that since childhood, he has been educated by his father, "doing good deeds should be spontaneous, the amount of money doesn't matter, doing it is better than not doing it."
Chen Yu said that during the days when he didn't have a job, he also thought about giving up, "I've been doing good deeds for so many years, and no one knows, now I have no money, let's stop doing good deeds." However, when he thought about people who needed help more than him, he gritted his teeth and continued.
In the early years of doing good deeds, Chen Yu always donated anonymously, "it doesn't matter how much you donate, you don't want others to know, just have a clear conscience." Later, he changed his mind and donated under his real name. "Donating under my real name and keeping these donation receipts is just to motivate myself to keep moving forward, and I hope more people will join the ranks of doing good deeds," said Chen Yu.
Chen Yu's advice for everyone to do good deeds is: donate money, start small, don't care whether you have the title of "good person", as long as you are sincere, accumulate day by day, do what you can, and you can harvest the happiness of doing good deeds.