The inspiration of a famous saying
As the saying goes: "With humility, all things can be accomplished, but with complacency, all things will come to nothing." Yes, this sentence is correct. After passing that incident in fifth grade, my feelings became deeper. Why is this?
That was the final exam of fifth grade. Because of my all-round performance in that exam, I got a good score and was fortunate enough to be ranked second in my grade. I am very excited, and my parents are also very happy. But my mother, who is a "professional teacher", still told me a lot of things about not being proud and being humble. But I had already been dazzled by the victory. My mother’s words went in one ear and out the other. Totally ignored. Walking on the road after school, I always hear many classmates whispering: "Yeah, he is the second in grade!" "Yes, I heard that the first place only has 0.5 points more than him!" After hearing these words, I Then he started to get arrogant. Eating snacks in class, running away from work, talking to classmates, or passing notes everywhere. What's more, sometimes I use Chinese and math books to block the outside and read comic books below. My deskmate kept reminding me, but I ignored it. Once, when my deskmate saw that I was doing my old habit again, he began to persuade me: "You, you are watching, I will sue the teacher." "Go, go, I am the second in grade anyway, who is afraid of whom?" "I said arrogantly, because I knew he was timid and didn't dare to sue the teacher. Sure enough, he didn't sue the teacher.
Time flies, half the semester passed in a blur in the blink of an eye, and his deskmate also Ignore me. It’s time for the midterm exam again. Because I got high scores in the previous few quizzes, this made me even more arrogant. I didn’t care about the exam at all, thinking that I would get high scores. I only scored 81 points on the math test and was not even ranked among the top 30 students in the class. I only scored 90 points on the "Chinese Strong" test and was ranked in the upper 20s. The teacher asked me to go to the office for a talk. As soon as he entered the office, the teacher spoke: "Zhang Chen, what's wrong with you? You weren't like this before. Something happened from time to time. Can you sue the teacher?" After listening to the teacher's words, I felt ashamed: The teacher still trusts me. So, I told everything about my half-semester study situation. The teacher listened and said meaningfully: "The teacher gave you a famous saying, I hope you remember it and don't violate it. You should have heard of this sentence, which is: 'All things can be accomplished with an open mind, but nine things will be empty if you are complacent.' You Do you know what it means?" I nodded and said, "As long as you are modest, you can succeed in everything; if you are proud, nothing will succeed." The teacher nodded with satisfaction.
"Everything can be accomplished with an open mind, but nine things will come to nothing if you are complacent." This saying has stayed with me throughout my life and I have benefited a lot from it.