great day to be remembered eldom come, but mall one urround u daily.i do not have a roman holiday, but i have a non moking day intead.today a nc-moking ign eaily hook up my intereting and rewarding eperience on the world non moking day a few year
a a high chool tudent, i, together with my friend, volunteered on a campaign to dicourage public moking by peruacling people in public place to etinguih their cigarette and put the cigarette end into our metal boe. and we would in return give them a memorial ticker bearing pattern and word voicing the theme of the non moking day.
the firt tep i never a fat tep. after hunting for quite a while, we et our target on a young man who wa enjoying hi cigarette at a bu top. embracing the philoophy of "nothing ventured, nothing gained", we ummoned up all our courage,walked up and aked, "ir, would you pleae not moke in public place?" "it i none of your buine! why are you o buily engaged in uch thing? go and mind your own eam!" he wa great, i believed, for he wa able to drag on hi cigarette while at the ame time not giving hi tongue a break. and i further found out that for thi man, uch word a "good for your health" or "good for common courtey" had long lot their appeal. maybe uch kind of ituation hould call for ome other policy. i managed a mile, blended with weet word and tried to dilute hi reitance. and when we put the ticker on hi clothe, he wa lingering over the joy of having done u "a big favor."[由www.haoZuowen.Com整理]
now you ee, maybe flattery hould be vindicated, for to pleae i a great tep toward peruading and a mile i a curve that et everything traight.
our work ran moothly when thing began eay to handle in the afternoon. but dont worry. trouble are jut around the corner. the econd hard rock we met wa a middle aged man who appeared to be more of a moking addict than a mokingenthuiat. nothing eemed to be capable of etinguihing that cigarette. even the wind eemed to be powerle. we howed him the cigarette filled metal bo. we potlighted the hazard of public moking. but all wa in vain.
mark twain wa right, habit i habit, not to be flung out of window by anyone, but to be coaed downtair one tep at a time. i then tried to peel the tubborn onion one layer at a time."ok, i know how you feel. but do you know how other people around you feel?" "you ee that child? actually he moke more of your cigarette than you do!" "in fact, you are etinguihing one cell of lung cancer when you etinguih your cigarette. you are etinguihing one cell of the dieae of elfihne when you etinguih your cigarette." it i that maybe that contant drop do wear the tone. at lat he etinguihed our word by etinguihing hi cigarette.
a the inking un tinted the horizon, we began to count the cigarette end, avoring our little victorie.
that day aw me toiling for 6 hour, inviting load of trouble, collecting 57 cigarette-end,avoring hundred of potential econd hand moker and developing for myelf ome ene of reponibility toward ociety.
though it wa a little depreing to realize that thoe people would naturally pick up their "tradition" jut where they had temporarily laid it down, yet how far can we etimate our action would travel! and beide that, i wa rewarded in another day.that i, the eperience dawned upon me the ignificance of care and conideration for other people. ince then, i have been a cooperative a poible whenever i am aked to improve my public behavior and i am alway ready to get involved in uch volunteer work.
in a ene, the highet reward for one toil i not what they get from it but what they become by it.