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Be Upright in Life and Bend Over Backwards at Work

By Xixi
The Epoch Times
Mar 26, 2008

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Upright (Mingguo/The Epoch Times)


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In a restaurant, a waiter spilled some coffee on a customer's leather shoe by accident. He kept apologizing to the customer, his legs shaking like jelly.

Without a word of reproach, the boss took out his handkerchief and knelt down to wipe off the spillages for the customer. He did it so casually and so composedly, as though he was serving himself or his own family. It neither made the customer feel awkward nor the waiter feel embarrassed.

Later, the waiter became the owner of a restaurant too. He felt he owed his success to his boss who had influenced him through the incident. Every time he recalled the incident, he would vividly remember the back of his boss as he went down on his knees.

If you assume those who stand are more superior and those who are on all fours are slaves, then you are wrong.

A true man knows exactly when to kneel and when to stand. When he stands, his legs are not shaky; and when he kneels, he does not blush with embarrassment.

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