Something interesting or important, waiting for me to find them.
In the sixth grade of primary school, my family moved to the southwest corner of People's Square, which is close to Shanghai Library. There is an open-air reading room in the museum, where many people sit reading. One day, I got up the courage to go in, but I was turned away. According to the regulations, you must be more than 1.45 meters tall to enter this reading room, but I'm still far from it. I graduated from primary school and got the admission ticket for junior high school. I was overjoyed to hear that I could enter the museum with this card. Throughout the summer vacation, I sat in the open-air reading room and read books almost every day. I remember that the first book I borrowed was Hugo's Les Miserables, and the librarian looked at me suspiciously, not believing that eleven-year-old children could understand it. I really couldn't stand it, so I turned over a few pages and returned it. This experience hit me hard, which made me afraid to contact foreign classics for a long time. Until I went to high school, I still found foreign novels difficult to read, I couldn't remember the names and I couldn't understand the plot. The same is true of foreign films. Every weekend, there are two movies in the auditorium of Shanghai Middle School, one is free and the other is a ten-cent ticket. Most of the films shown are foreign films. I'm so old-fashioned, sometimes I fall asleep because I don't understand them.
However, my love for books is growing day by day, and I have a long-term hobby of buying books. I bought books for the first time in primary school. I want to have my own comic book. I saved a little change, went to a stall, and chose a book called Jichang Learning Arrow. I chose this book because I had just enough change. I read it again and was moved by Jichang's perseverance in practicing. I was happy for many days after I bought it. In the third grade of junior high school, my family moved to Jiangning Road. There are five stops by tram from home to school, only 40 cents, and it takes an hour to walk. Because my family is poor, my father only gives me a one-way fare of 40 cents a day, and I can't even bear to spend this money. I always walk around. A long way is the bustling Nanjing West Road. Coming back from school is the busiest time. The goods in the windows on both sides are dazzling. It is false to say that those exquisite cakes have no temptation to me, but I am thinking about the two old bookstores on this road, and I will move forward with the spirit of not being in contact. These two second-hand bookstores are two spiritual lighthouses in the ocean of material temptation. I go in every time I pass by. If I have enough money in my pocket, I will buy a book I like. Of course, it often happens that I take a fancy to a book, but I don't have enough money. I have to check whether the book is still there every day until I have enough money to buy it. When I was in high school, I lived on campus. You have to take a suburban bus from home to school, and the round-trip fare is 50 cents. Going home once every two weeks, my father gives me two yuan a month, one yuan for travel and one yuan for pocket money. This makes me feel rich when I buy books, so I always trudge happily on the suburban road of more than ten kilometers. At that time, the national economy was in a difficult period, and the shops were in a depression. The few sweets and snacks in the window were marked with scary prices. What I want to know is, how can anyone buy it? How many books can I buy with the same money? I couldn't stay at home at the weekend, so I went to an old bookstore near my home on Nanjing West Road. My brother admires my thirst for knowledge. He often follows me quietly and waits for me to come out at the gate of the bookstore. After entering the university, I still live a very poor life in order to buy books. My family sends me five yuan of pocket money every month, needless to say, they all spend it in second-hand bookstores. For a time, I returned the food stamp for a meal every day and sent it to Wowotou with boiling water to save money on books. From middle school to senior two, I accumulated more than 200 books, which were lost during the Cultural Revolution.
When I recall Shanghai Middle School, I always see a scrawny student sitting in the reading room reading a book, and a quotation from Gorky is posted on the wall: "I jump into a book, just like a hungry person jumps into bread." In fact, I don't know whether this sentence was really posted there or seen from other places and grafted on the wall of the reading room of Shanghai Middle School in my memory. In any case, this sentence was really unique to me at that time, and it very aptly expressed the mood and state of a hungry teenager. I was also very grateful to China Youth Daily, which often published some great people's hard work and inspirational quotes, which injected strong perseverance into my exuberant thirst for knowledge. I work very hard. The school stipulates that students must take a nap, but I often sneak out of the dormitory to read in the classroom. The administrator of our dormitory is very strict with the students. If he is found sneaking out of the dormitory during a nap, he will be severely reprimanded, so I hate him very much. Later, this man was sentenced for raping several girls by taking advantage of his position. It can be seen that a respectable person is generally a thief and a prostitute. In middle school, I have regarded learning as the noblest career in life. In my poems at that time, I laughed at those who were obsessed with material comforts and said that I was only obsessed with knowledge. My ambition is to "study a lifelong encyclopedia" and "read all the good books in the world". Of course, I am not without utilitarianism. There is a poem written like this: "It's hard to be vocal if you don't do something right, but it's hard to be surprised if you aim high." Read thousands of books, travel around the world and shout to saints. "Expressed the desire to get ahead through learning. I also long for success, but it seems that I firmly believe that only learning is the right way to success.
Because of this, one thing gave me great stimulation, that is, my sister left school to work. When I was in grade two, she was in grade three. One day near the summer vacation, she didn't come home after school. In the evening, one of her best classmates came to my house to inform my father that my sister failed in her grades and was afraid to go home, hiding in her house, hoping that my father would not hit her. Shortly after she left, my sister came back timidly. A good friend's intercession doesn't work at all. Father has never beaten the child so badly, and my sister's piercing cry for mercy made my heart tremble. Before the end of next semester, one day, she went home and told her father that the military factory in Shaanxi had come to the school to recruit people. She signed up and the school agreed. She looks very happy. Soon after, she set off for Baoji. She is honest and popular, and received many gifts from her classmates before she left. From signing up to leaving home, she has been very happy, without any signs of sadness. However, I feel extremely sad for her. I can't imagine the significance and future of a man who gave up his studies to become a worker at the age of fifteen.
Although I love reading, I didn't know what to read during the whole middle school. I haven't met anyone who can give directions, and I have been groping in the dark. When I was in junior high school, I continued to study in primary school and read many fairy tales and folk stories. Then, I fell in love with the Soviet Union and China's anti-spy thrillers, such as Hollow Man and The Weird Old Man. I also read several Sherlock Holmes detective novels, such as The Hound of the Baskerville and The Study of Blood Characters, and dreamed of becoming a detective in the future. Finally, because of the recommendation of the school librarian, I read almost all the famous contemporary novels in China at that time, such as Kucaihua, Lin Yuan and Song of Youth. I also read Mao Xuan, because it was a set of books that I was familiar with in my father's closet since I was a child, and I read it for a long time. I also write reading notes, including abstracts and experiences. On the second day of junior high school, the Communist Youth League in Shanghai launched the "Red Flag Medal Reading Activity" among middle school students. I gave my reading notes to the class teacher. No one in my class studied as hard as I did, so naturally I won the prize. After entering high school, I read a lot of miscellaneous books, but I still haven't read the really important books, which are basically pamphlets of literature, history and philosophy, and I soon despised them. Perhaps the only exception is the History of China Literature compiled by Peking University, which gave me a general understanding of China's classical literature, and I began to read Tang poetry and Song poetry, as well as novels such as The Scholars and Flowers of Evil. Out of my understanding of the mysteries of the universe, I also read some brochures on astronomy. For a time, I wanted to improve my writing ability, so I carefully extracted beautiful sentences from various novels and essays. In order to increase my vocabulary, I actually read the dictionary carefully and copied the entries I thought were useful in my notebook. However, I finally found that these practices are not only useless, but also harmful to writing. Fortunately, I haven't been doing this for a long time, otherwise I might become a mediocre writer with rhetoric. What I gained from studying in middle school is definitely not the specific influence of a book on me, but the habit of reading. Since then, I have taken my homework seriously and spent more time reading extracurricular books.
Reaction to a book or an article
I believe many people will feel the injustice of this world. Why do others succeed and be admired by the world, but they are mediocre all their lives? I don't think the reason is injustice, but personal reasons. The effort is far less than the effort required for success, and it is difficult to succeed! Success is really unfair!
I just finished reading Zhou's Jump into the Book, and I can't wait to write down what I think after reading it. I really think Zhou loves reading. After reading his autobiography, I feel that he loves reading too much. When he was a child, he didn't know what to read. He has read many fairy tales. When he grew up, he knew what to read and read many useful books. This laid the foundation for us to read his book now! His language is simple and wonderful.
It is not difficult to write something, just like I wrote more than 20 blog posts in my 20-day holiday. I know there is little or no excitement. I believe that most people's articles, like mine, have a high opinion of themselves! Zhou was also brought up by ordinary people, while he was a writer and everyone else was sitting at home. There is a simple reason. After reading Zhou's "Jump on the Book", we know that Zhou loved literature since he was a child. It seems simple, but in fact, most people can't. Zhou is the result of accumulated efforts, and he should!
I thought of Confucius again. It is said that his books were turned upside down by him. At that time, he was still a bamboo slip, and the rope on Confucius' bamboo slip was broken because of too many times. I can't imagine how hard it was and how many times I read it. He deserves to be the greatest educator in China and even the world!
I was reminded of Chen Jingrun again. He-he tore the book page by page, studied this page thoroughly, and then read the next page. His success lies in his seriousness.
And Bill Gates, we can't imagine how much effort he devoted to studying computers. You know, all the computer programs we use now are studied by him and his partners. At first, no one looked up to him. He studied what no one understood at that time, but he succeeded. He is the richest man in the world and the most successful person in the world, just because he dares to challenge the peak, challenging the peak that ordinary people dare not or can even be said to be unable to challenge.
I also remembered that water can beat stones, just because of accumulated efforts and persistent disdainful efforts!
The success of successful people lies not in God's preference, but in their pursuit of ideals, unremitting efforts and indomitable will ... Success is not the result of temporary efforts, but the result of lifelong efforts!
As the saying goes, "Only by paying more than others can we get more than others". Is there an ideal? Want to succeed? Pay your 120 effort, take out the best energy and move towards the ideal, and success will not be far away!
Why do they succeed? Because they pay for success. Senior two, the pace of struggle for ideals should be accelerated.