Life is like a marathon, and it is a process that pays attention to participation. In this process, we can experience the joy of participation and enjoy the scenery along the way, without putting all our thoughts on the result of the competition. As long as we can finish the game without giving up, we will be the final winner. Because of this, perhaps in all sports events, only the marathon can make the contestants feel relaxed and not nervous.
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is a senior marathon runner. He once said, "As long as I run, I feel happy. Running is probably the most beneficial habit I have developed in my life so far. " In fact, isn't Haruki Murakami's life a marathon? He is never in a hurry to pursue success, but in every ordinary day, he does what he likes unhurriedly.
Haruki Murakami has been obsessed with jazz since middle school. He often spends his pocket money alone in jazz bars. Not only that, he also spent all his pocket money on jazz discs, and his love for jazz continues to this day. During college, he and his wife saved a sum of money to open a shop by doing various part-time jobs. Finally, they got their wish and opened a small bar after graduating from college. The bar plays Murakami's favorite jazz every day, and the couple live a quiet and leisurely life. As time goes by, the business in the store is getting better and better.
However, an accidental opportunity completely changed Murakami's life track and made him have an indissoluble bond with the novel.
It was an ordinary day. Haruki Murakami, who was watching a baseball game at the Jingu Gymnasium, suddenly had the idea of writing a novel. Since then, Murakami has been writing at his desk every night, and this habit has been adhered to until now. Murakami had a whim to write a novel when he was nearly 30 years old, but later he became a world-famous first-class novelist. This is related to his personal talent, but it is also inseparable from Murakami's marathon spirit in writing. Haruki Murakami has been writing and running quantitatively every day since the day he started writing novels, without a day's interruption. It has been 40 years now.
In fact, Haruki Murakami's marathon spirit is a manifestation of personal high self-discipline and persistence in dreams. Only self-discipline and persistence can bring us closer to our dreams.
Haruki Murakami's Rama spirit reminds me of a girl who wrote a novel not long ago. At that time, I just started writing novels on a website. At the beginning, I was full of blood and enthusiasm. I really hope I can write a popular work as soon as possible, but my ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. I wrote a few articles, but I read very little, not even a comment. Reality undoubtedly poured cold water on me. I began to doubt whether I was suitable for writing novels, because writing novels not only takes time, but also takes a lot of thought to conceive the structure and plot of the whole story. This feeling of loss is like being on a huge stage, and you are the only actor without an audience. I lost the courage to go on and didn't pick up a pen for a week.
When I was wandering around the website, I saw her novel and accidentally clicked on her personal homepage. I found that each of her novels has more than tens of thousands of views, and there are many comments and praises. At that time, I couldn't help but envy, but I didn't want to admit that I lost to a girl younger than myself. But after reading her novels, I have to admit that others really write better than myself, and the plot is not as straightforward as myself, but ups and downs.
Later, I added her WeChat through a private message. In the process of communication, I casually asked her how to improve my novel quickly. Actually, I want to take a shortcut and learn some ways to improve myself quickly from her. Her answer was unexpected. She said I had no shortcuts. I have been writing for ten years, and I have been writing silently for the first seven or eight years. No one has ever received my contribution, but I finally got some recognition in the past year or two. After listening to this sentence, I realized that I really lost, lost to her persistence and lost to my eagerness to succeed.
In life, it is inevitable that each of us will have such a moment and be defeated by a temporary failure, but at that time, please don't doubt yourself, please continue to insist, please choose to believe in the power of dreams and time, and wish you a marathon-like spirit of life and always be on the road to your dreams.