Materials about dreams and reality (1), chasing dreams.
"Be realistic!" How helpless but people can't help but nod. In real life, many dreams are difficult to realize, and people feel disappointed or even desperate over time. So you just believe in reality.
French writer Alfred de Muse said: "Life is like a rose, each petal represents a dream, and each thorn shows a reality." Of course, we can't give up our petals to avoid being stung and live on the barren grassland. Even if you work hard, even if you are injured, you should plant a garden and live up to your own life.
Pursuing dreams is not to change one's initial preference for others' views, but an attitude of surviving without being forced by the pressure of life. Huang is a 26-year-old master of painting in Shui Ying. He was obsessed with fine arts since childhood, but he studied civil engineering in college. After graduation, his parents arranged for him to work in a state-owned enterprise, but he found that he still liked painting. More than four months later, despite the opposition of his family, he insisted on resigning and devoted himself to the creation of water shadow paintings. He was not satisfied with a stable job and didn't live as his parents hoped. He pursued hope with enthusiasm and finally achieved a different kind of success.
Pursuing dreams is not bound by one's own conditions, even if it seems incredible. At the age of 90, a new Japanese poetess, Shibata Toyo, began to try to write poems with the encouragement of her son. At the age of 98, he published a collection of poems, Don't be discouraged in life, with a circulation of 654.38+05,000 copies in Japan. As one of her 77-year-old readers said, "People are not old when they are old. Even if the years pass, people with their own personality always look forward. " Pursuing dreams and enjoying life will not stop because of age.
Pursuing dreams is not escaping from reality, but trying to change the status quo because of full hope for reality. Resistance is just a gesture, which has nothing to do with success or failure. Even if the pursuit of dreams is unsuccessful, at least I won't look back and regret not resisting.
You can't completely ignore the realistic conditions when chasing dreams. This reminds me of the stone carving of an eagle on the left at the entrance of Turin University-an eagle starved to death. In order to realize the great ideal of flying all over the world, this eagle practiced all kinds of flying skills, but forgot to learn the skills of foraging. As a result, it starved to death on the fifth day of its journey. Before realizing a person's ideal, the skills of labor and survival are essential, otherwise it may be just a castle in the air and it is difficult to make a difference.
"The most expensive thing I have ever bought is a dream!" Taiwan Province writer directed his first film, Yuan's Dream.
Only by chasing your dreams can you realize yourself.
Materials about dreams and reality (2), dreams and facing reality.
A piece of advice that young people often hear is: be realistic. In this regard, some people silently nodded, and some people stubbornly shook their heads.
I, on the other hand, would like to be the kind of stubborn person who shakes his head. Reality is an exhortation, but it is more like a bondage. We are wrapped in reality by layers of thorns, and finally we are wrapped into a "mummy". We can't see the thorns, and we can't see ourselves. We have been polished too much, so we have lost the vitality of youth. We young people may have nothing but mediocrity.
Think of the Beijinger who can't sleep and squint in Lao She's Thinking of Peiping. He was born at the entrance of the imperial city at the foot of the son of heaven. Seemingly superior, in fact, I lost all my dreams and hopes, leaving only my real life. In contrast, a few days ago, a group of young people with boiling blood in "Beijing Youth" let us see the young people full of vigor and vitality in the new era. They are just a group of rebels who are stubborn and shake their heads-rebellious but full of energy, blood and dreams.
This kind of ideal blood is what I pursue, what I insist on, which belongs to young people and is indispensable to society, but young people should not ignore or completely despise the advice of the elderly: be realistic.
The elders have experienced more than us, seen more, heard more and naturally experienced more. The sentence "be realistic" is of course a blow to those of us who have dreams, but it also reminds us that just having dreams is not enough to succeed. When dreaming, face the reality.
Turn over the long scroll of history, but we can clearly see that from ancient times to now, no one who has achieved great things is willing to be mediocre and realistic, but no one can climb the ladder of blue clouds just by fantasy, such as Liu Bangru Han Xin, Napoleon as Zhuge Liang, Lincoln as Martin Luther King, and Madame Curie as Einstein. How great the fantasy is, how bumpy the reality is. I only have lofty aspirations, but I don't have the courage and ability to meet challenges. Finally, I can only drown in the suffering of reality and sigh: "What can I do?" Fate is not with me. "And those who are truly successful, whether they are accused by reality or broken mountains and rivers, whether they are facing many dangers or sitting alone in the laboratory, they all have dreams and are indomitable in the face of reality.
To tell the truth, it is exhortation, bondage, challenge and test. Don't be crushed by reality, and don't be divorced from reality and fantasize blindly.
Have a dream, face the reality, follow the dream and finally succeed.
Materials about dreams and reality (3), live like a cedar
On a slope in Quebec, Canada, there are no other trees except cedar. It turned out that there was a snowstorm here because of the special wind direction, and other trees were crushed. Only the cedar bent its branches under the accumulation of snow and snow, so that the snow slipped down and survived.
Young people often equate "reality" with negative and pessimistic words such as "cowardice" and "giving up dreams" after hearing the advice of "being realistic". But in my opinion, this kind of advice is full of survival wisdom. It enlightens us how to achieve our life goals with less resistance. It advises us to live like cedars.
To live like a cedar is not to learn to be sleek and sophisticated, but to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages blindly, but to emphasize a sober view, a rational perspective and an accurate grasp of life. Only by thoroughly analyzing the reality can we find the optimal solution on the road of life. Only when you know your upper limit clearly will you not live in vain. The worm in the biography of slugs lost its self-orientation and eventually died. Only by making an objective and comprehensive assessment of the environment can we not be swallowed up by huge waves and whales. Although Kodak was all the rage, it eventually went bankrupt because of the wrong prediction of market trends and the vague prospect of science and technology. Therefore, living like a cedar is a prerequisite for realizing your dream.
To live like a cedar is not to avoid difficulties blindly, but to actively seek solutions. This response is not "blind sacrifice", but an art of compromise. When Britain trained intelligence personnel during World War II, it was mentioned that once captured, it was only necessary to remain silent for 48 hours, and then it was possible to surrender after fighting for the transfer time for its companions. Instead, I gave up my stupidity and competed with others with brute force. Instead, I cleverly found another way, that is, I looked for a breakthrough with a wise eye and targeted. It not only avoids unnecessary losses, but also constructs ways to realize dreams. "Jianghai can be the king of all the valleys, so its goodness is the king of all the valleys." The philosophy of life that Laozi wants to advocate may be not only open-minded, but also a layer of great wisdom. Living with a different attitude, even if it seems weak for a while, can actually gain more.
Living like a cedar warns us not to forget our goals and ideals in the face of complex world conditions and severe ice and snow. I still remember my plan and future after all the hardships. Someone once said, "compromise lies not in what you give in, but in what you insist on." Cedar will bend over and stand upright in the future. Only by maintaining pride in the heart will the world not lose faith.
Living like a cedar is not flattery, but the understanding that the weak are stronger than the weak and the soft are stronger than the strong. It is to bid farewell to the numbness of "taking the beauty of the world as your own", and it is also the persistence of "being still strong after being tempered, making the east, west, north and south prevail".
"Be realistic" may be like this, growing up in concession, and never giving up even if you cry.