Overcome setbacks and let your ideals fly

After arriving at the topic of the speech, I have been thinking, what is the starting point? What is the end point? Life has a starting point, and there are starting points everywhere in life. Life has an end, but does life have one? If so, doesn’t the profound influence that ancient people’s thoughts have had on us represent a kind of vitality? Then I thought of another question: What is life? A book says that life means that the joy of birth does not belong to you, and the sorrow of death does not belong to you. Only the hardship of living belongs to you. A book also said that life without pursuit and achievement cannot be called life. We came to the world in the same way and gathered in Beilin after experiencing different life experiences. We must want to live our own lives. On the same starting line, we must all weave our own dreams. But does anyone know where the other side of their dreams is? The end is as unpredictable as the future. What will happen to us in the middle is always full of mystery.

Please remember a truth: Youth is a fortune. We have youth, which is the most precious wealth in pursuing ideals. What is youth without dreams and pursuits called youth? How can we call youth without hesitation and persistent pursuit?

Have faith, well done! Good job if you pursue it! But have you fully foreseen the difficulties and setbacks in this process? Although there are ambitions at the starting point, and the golden light is shining at the end, but when life smoothes the edge of ideals step by step, won't the ambitions still disappear? Don’t think we are in college. no. Gorky once said: "Suffering is the real university." A great man also said: "Suffering is the only way in life." So when you have ambitions, you must also open your arms to welcome suffering.

Have you read "Churchill"? What kind of life experience did this speech genius, who only takes a hundred years to be born, go through! Everyone may only remember his tragic report card, but they don't know about his loneliness and even his almost aborted childhood several times. Everyone may only remember his glory as Lord of the Admiralty, but they don't know that he went through various legendary experiences of narrow escape from an ordinary cavalryman to a war correspondent who made many extraordinary achievements. Everyone may only remember his overwhelming and inflammatory speeches, but they don't know that he was often laughed at, ridiculed, and insulted when he was growing up. Even his ugly appearance and short stature are always talked about by his opponents. Everyone may only remember that he was born into a noble family and should enjoy all the glory, but they don't know the dilemma that Winston Churchill faced when he was a young man when the Churchill family went from Duke Marlborough to Lord Randolph, etc. etc. It is precisely because of the ups and downs of the political arena that Churchill experienced that his rough life led to his immortal saying: "All I can offer is blood and tears." This sentence is indeed full of blood and tears. It is built up from a lot of suffering.

Some people may say: I don’t want to be a great figure like Churchill, but please remember: the height of dreams is directly proportional to the degree of suffering. So be prepared for hardship at the starting point. In fact, pursuing dreams means long-distance running. Suffering is the physiological limit of human beings. If you encounter it, just bite and persevere for a while, and you will be able to "preserve until the clouds clear and the moon becomes clear." But there will always be people who waver. Aren't these people complacent when they stood at the starting point? Doesn’t this mean that we should fully anticipate suffering and recognize the importance of ourselves?

Remember a very common saying: Persistence is victory. Believe that hard work will lead to rewards, because "where there is a will, things will come true. If you break the cauldron and sink the boat, the Qin Pass will eventually belong to Chu. The hard work will not fail man and nature." If you lie down on firewood and taste courage, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu." This is the power of faith.

But who has no weakness or laziness? Our ideals have been set free. How can we give up? On the road of running, if you are not hesitant or depressed, just listen to a poem I sent to you. , and as the end of my speech, I hope it can give everyone some strength to run towards the finish line.