There is a warm video on the internet that screens countless internet friends: a 70-year-old who, instead of buying expensive finished products, builds cool toys for his 4-year-old grandson with his hands and a pile of junk. No one could have imagined that the child's most curable and precious childhood had been raised in the hands of the grandfather, in what seemed to be a useless “waste”。
The video is a simple and warm one: an old small yard, a scavenger door, a squeaky sewing machine, piled up on the ground with junk in the eyes of others: a delivery box, empty cans, a mineral water bottle, an old scavenger. But it's these unseemly grotesque things that have been transformed into children's treasure toys. In the lens, the four-year-old grandson ran in the yard on his own rocket vehicle, with light bubbles coming out of his canisters, flashing led lights in his head, and sparkling and healing。
He was young and capable of working on aircraft maintenance. When he retired, the plaza couldn't keep up with the rhythm, the mahjong table was too cumbersome and he left all his tenderness and patience to his young grandchildren. The parents of beans are constantly busy and have limited time to accompany their children, and the old li takes up the responsibility for the baby。
Unlike his ancestors, he never used candy or snacks to make children, nor bought fancy toys blindly. He took his grandson with him to break old objects, changed old fans to propellers, changed bad routers to simple remote controls, even the inside of a warm pot that had been broken down in his home, which he had carefully sharpened, made a fine hood and filled his childhood with hands-on companions。
The first-generation rocket vehicle, which was originally made in the form of a cardboard box and a scavenger as a steering wheel, was removed from the abandoned baby car. But the first test failed, and the kid just sat on it and the car collapsed. Look at the broken toys, the old li is not discouraged and smiles to comfort the grandchildren: failure is a mat of success. Let's start over。
In order to make solid, safe toys, old li's head is very careful. He has dared to fix the problem of burden-taking by adapting the material and even the old aluminium ladders in his home, and by constructing triangles with solid dice structures. He trims the cans into fine tail wings, with detergent water and an automatic bubble device; and dismantles old chargeables and batteries, with small fans, so that cars are stable, smooth and safe。
When it's finished, it's a beautiful handcar. Neighbors shot the video on the internet with their own hands, flaunting millions overnight and quickly walking all over the net. Numerous internet users have left messages asking for links, and grandfathers still lack grandchildren。
Old li's head is so quiet and low-key in the face of the red. He was too busy making his hands softly, saying that toys were used materials that were not required to be purchased, and sharing the curriculum in detail in the comment area overnight, from openings, foldings to circuit connections, to fine-tuning。
In the face of online doubts about safety, the old li offers details: all corners are polished with sandpaper, all the screws are fixed, the exclusive brake pedals fit the child's height, secure, and far more durable than cheap plastic toys on the market。
After reading grandpa's story, it's touching. Many parents today think that expensive toys, delicate gifts are the best love for their children, but they become obsessed with electronics and lack genuine company and creativity。
The old li told everyone in the simplest way that real childhood happiness never depended on money. So-called creativity has never been the exclusive preserve of expensive building blocks, but rather the transformation of corruption into magical wisdom and the tenderness of patience and company. Garbage is a resource in the wrong place, and age is never the shackles of creativity。
At the end of the video, the grandkids ran with a laser sword modified by a broomstick, and grandpa was wearing old sheets as a cape, playing with the children, and the images were gentle and moving。
The best fairy tales, not in distant playgrounds, are in the common yard, in the clumsy, deep love of the ancestors. Creating them with heart and hand is the best childhood gift for a child。
