“It’s Tet…Every year is the same. Doing this job for a long time gradually gets used to it. Many times I see people’s families shopping together for Tet and get excited. But after a few minutes, I was holding a broom and pushing the cart to do my job.” A story you can easily see anywhere in the days leading up to Tet. From small alleys, large factories or even luxurious apartments, there are still people dedicated to their mission. It’s familiar, but the more I listen, the more I feel sad.

Regardless of time, regardless of sun or rain, they – sanitation workers – appear so that the environment around us always retains its original beauty. Therefore, the cleaning process continues even when the city is asleep. There is no longer the sound of gongs tapping like before, the cleaning staff quietly collects trash to the gathering place. But when people’s awareness is not high, workers still have to spend more time to classify waste. So tired! Sanitation workers still quickly clean every corner, clean every hospital corridor and factory area to ensure a clean working environment.

Especially during the holidays, the workload is higher than usual, forcing them to work overtime. Have you ever wondered, “How great are their sacrifices?”, try to imagine: In the sacred moments of New Year’s Eve, when your family is gathering together, they are still silent. keep the city clean and beautiful. The moment the last fireworks display ended, everyone rushed to leave in a happy atmosphere. At this time, the workers rushed out to the street to clean up the piles of trash lying around. There are no beautiful dreams at three o’clock in the morning. For them, the small joy now is to quickly complete work and return to family before the new year. If they came home late that day, how sad it would be, the number of times they would welcome the New Year with their colleagues next to a garbage-filled truck than with their loved ones in a small house.

Looking at the silhouette of the janitor hidden behind the towering trash cans, under the fog light in the cold of spring, do you know what makes them persevere for so long? A living, a daily bread and butter? Maybe. But above all, it is pride in the work and the noble mission of preserving and improving the quality of community life.

Therefore, each of us must be responsible for protecting the environment in which we live. Not only for yourself and your family, but also with gratitude and appreciation for the silent sacrifices of sanitation citizens. Hopefully this is a story that can inspire us, so that everyone is conscious of preserving a good living environment every day.