The protagonist of this issue.
Veteran Guo Qingguo.
Dalian people said. Everyone's circumstances are different, and the lifestyle choices are also different, and what I choose is to help others as much as I can. I really feel happy to get a haircut for someone else. It is said that it is not difficult to do one thing, but it is difficult to persist all the time, so I will try it, as long as everyone does not dislike it, I will continue to persevere. ”
Guo Qingguo volunteered to give haircuts to the elderly in nursing homes. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Seeing that the "second day of February" of the lunar calendar is approaching, in the past few days, Guo Qingguo has been contacting the person in charge of the nursing home and the person in charge of the nursing center at a given point, and agreed on the time of the door-to-door voluntary haircut. Insist on doing one thing for a week, a month or even a year, maybe many people can do it, starting from the army, Guo Qingguo's haircut scissors in his hand, a cut is 29 years, and the "haircut map" has also expanded from Dalian City to counties, and the voluntary haircut has been up to more than 10,000 times.
Under the drive and influence of Guo Qingguo, more and more volunteers have joined the service team, warming every corner of the city.
Voluntary haircuts. He has an unchanging agreement with the elderly in the nursing home.
Early in the morning of March 3, 2024, Guo Qingguo appeared on time in a nursing home in Ganjingzi District. Every time the time comes, the elderly, caregivers, and cooks in the nursing home will line up in a long line to cut his hair.
Guo Qingguo said that every once in a while, he would go to the nursing home, because this was an unchanging agreement between him and the lonely elderly or disabled people in the nursing home, and giving them a voluntary haircut had become something he carved into his bones, and this habit has never changed or stopped.
Hair is a person's "façade", if the hair is cut well, people will be spiritual, and if the hair is not neat, it will look sloppy. Guo Qingguo chatted with the old people while cutting their hair. The old man who was getting a haircut said with a smile: "This young man is good, his hair is cut vigorously, and he doesn't charge money." ”
But the old people may not know that Guo Qingguo, who has been going deep into the community and nursing homes all the year round to cut the hair of others, is actually not a full-time barber, he used to be a soldier. Guo Qingguo, born in 1974, enlisted in the army at the age of 18, transferred to Dalian in 2005, and is currently the deputy director of the Shahekou Management Office of the Municipal Infrastructure Department of the Dalian Municipal Public Utilities Service Center. After arriving in Dalian, he signed up as a volunteer, went deep into the community, nursing homes, sanitation departments, etc., and volunteered to give haircuts to the elderly and sanitation workers, and this year is the 29th year that he has insisted on voluntary haircuts.
Guo Qingguo's road of "righteous scissors" still started from the army. Within a few years of enlisting in the army, he began to help his comrades-in-arms get free haircuts, and also took advantage of the opportunity of military-civilian co-construction activities to give haircuts to the lonely and widowed elderly near the station. During his time in the army, he won a second-class merit and a third-class merit, and a bronze and silver medal for learning from Lei Feng. Once, a comrade-in-arms said: "Whoever can insist on a lifelong voluntary haircut is admirable!" This casual sentence made Guo Qingguo fall in love: "It is not difficult for a person to do a good deed, but it is difficult to do a good deed for a lifetime, learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds, then start from the 'beginning'!" ”
In this way, Guo Qingguo went deep into nursing homes and communities, and continued to insist on giving haircuts to the lonely and widowed elderly. Once, he gave a haircut to 35 elderly people alone, and at the end of the day, he was so tired that he was covered in sweat, his feet were numb, and his arms were raised as if they were weighing a thousand pounds, but he still insisted on finishing all the haircuts of these 35 old people. "No matter who you are, what you do, how much money you have, one day you will be old, and seeing them today is like seeing yourself tomorrow. Guo Qingguo said. When he thought of this, he couldn't say no.
The old people and Guo Qingguo are like old acquaintances, and everyone is thinking about him. Grandma Chen, who is in her eighties and has lived in a nursing home for many years, said: "Xiao Guo has good skills and attitude, and is polite to our old people. ”
Door-to-door service The disabled have limited mobility, so he will go to the home to get a haircut.
Over the years, in some nursing homes and nursing homes in Dalian, Guo Qingguo will always appear from time to time. Guo Qingguo said patiently: "The hairstyle of the elderly should change with the change of the season, and it should be cut fresh in summer, and the hair on the sideburns of the elderly should be kept longer in winter, so that the ears can be slightly covered to prevent the ears from being frozen." "After a long time of haircuts for the elderly, Guo Qingguo summed up a lot of experience.
Later, he learned that it was difficult for people with disabilities to travel, some of them because of the high floors of their homes, which made it difficult to get in and out, and some because they could not go up the steps in front of the barber shop, and most of them could not find door-to-door barbers. Guo Qingguo has started to give door-to-door haircuts for the elderly or disabled people with limited mobility.
In the streets and communities of Shahekou District, Guo Qingguo is a "celebrity" who is willing to contribute, and he will arrive if there is a need. Haircuts are really not big, but for those with limited mobility, it is a real help they need. Some old people didn't want to go and wanted to give him money, but he refused.
An elderly man who was seriously ill could not go downstairs, Guo Qingguo regularly came to serve, and always served the elderly like relatives, and this insistence was more than ten years until the old man passed away.
At first, Guo Qingguo kept several thick notebooks in his bag at any time, which densely recorded the information of the old man's haircut, and later had a WeChat circle of friends, so he remarked all the information in his mobile phone, and the time, name, and place were all clearly remarked. Guo Qingguo said that every time he gave the old man a haircut, he would record it. In this way, after waiting for about a month, he will take the initiative to make an appointment to come to the door for a haircut, even if it is snowy.
29 years of perseverance.
The "Public Welfare Map" has been extended from the city to the county.
Today, Guo Qingguo has established long-term ties with many streets, communities, nursing homes, etc., and conducts door-to-door volunteer services for the elderly who need haircuts and have limited mobility. The scope of service targets is also expanding, from the elderly and the disabled, to autistic children, sanitation workers, etc.; In recent years, the map of his haircuts has also been expanding, and in recent years, it has been expanded from the city to Jinpu New District, Lushunkou District and other surrounding districts, cities and counties. Although the journey is long and time-consuming, he feels that being able to help others is filled with infinite happiness.
Over the past 29 years, Guo Qingguo has used all the time he spends resting after work and spending time with his family for public welfare. According to rough estimates, he has about 500 haircuts a year, about 14,500 times in the past 29 years.
And his volunteer service also started from the voluntary haircut, bit by bit infiltrated into the lives of residents, the sidewalks in the abandoned community were seriously damaged, sewage overflowed, and the street lights were not lit at night, etc., he always helped the residents coordinate and solve problems silently, and solved problems for the people. "At work, you're already in a leadership position, so you still do these things, won't some people gossip? When asked, Guo Qingguo paused. "There have always been gossips, and some people are curious, saying, 'Lao Guo, what are you trying to do this?' To be honest, I didn't even care about it. Guo Qingguo said: "Everyone's circumstances are different, and the lifestyle they choose is also different, and what I choose is to help others as much as I can." I really feel happy to get a haircut for someone else. It is said that it is not difficult to do one thing, but it is difficult to persist all the time, so I will try it, as long as everyone does not dislike it, I will continue to persevere. ”
Guo Qingguo received awards for meritorious service in the army.
In recent years, under the leadership and influence of Guo Qingguo, more and more volunteers have joined his service team and followed him to engage in volunteer service. Guo Qingguo's spirit of volunteer service has also been commended many times, and has won the honorary titles of advanced worker, outstanding administrator, outstanding Communist Party member, Dalian good man, Dalian most beautiful volunteer, Liaoning good man, etc., and his deeds have also been reported by the national, provincial and municipal governments many times. Guo Qingguo said frankly that if he has to say that he has personal selfishness, he actually hopes that under his influence, more people can join this public welfare project, and those young people born in the 80s, 90s, and even 00s will slowly learn to be kind to the elderly.
Guo Qingguo's scissors went up and down, and the combs were distributed left and right, and everything seemed particularly warm. There are no earth-shattering deeds, only a pair of scissors to give love, Guo Qingguo and these volunteers are like a warm current, warming every corner of the city.
Peninsula Morning News, 39 degrees ** reporter Liu Kun.