Regarding setbacks, Balzac, a great French writer, said, "Setbacks are priceless to the capable and bottomless for the weak." The strong will be more frustrated and brave in the face of setbacks, and the weak will stumble in the face of setbacks. Tan Qian of Ming Dynasty in China spent 27 years writing the first draft of Guo Que in 5 million words, but it was stolen by greedy people. He endured this heavy blow, and spent ten years at his desk, rewriting the second draft of "The Lack of the Country". After three years of supplementary revision, it was finalized. It can be said that Tan Qian devoted his life to writing this book, and he had no regrets. If Tan Qian never recovered after the first draft was stolen, it was not successful after 13. Sima Qian wrote in the book "Bao Ren An": "The ancient people were rich, but their names were lost, which is indescribable. Only charismatic people say nothing. King Gavin was arrested and acted in Zhouyi; Zhong You wrote Spring and Autumn Annals; Qu Yuan's exile is a tribute to Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The satiety and revision of Sun Tzu's Art of War: ... "
Professor grignard, a famous chemist, has gone through a tortuous road. As a teenager, due to his well-off family and doting parents, he had no ideals and ambitions and wandered all day. However, the good times did not last long. A few years later, his family was completely bankrupt and penniless. All his former friends left him, and even his girlfriend humiliated him in public. From then on, he woke up and began to study hard, determined to recover the wasted time. Nine years later, he invented Grignard reagent and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
"Xibo was detained yesterday? , play Zhouyi; Confucius, Chen and Cai wrote Spring and Autumn Annals. Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote Li Sao. Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; Sun Tzu's feet are not the art of war; It's not Shu, but Lu Lan. Han Fei imprisoned Qin, Difficult and Lonely Anger; There are 300 poems, which are generally attributed to the angry actions of sages. This person has a sense of stagnation and cannot understand. " Sima Qian himself lived in seclusion because of the disaster of Liling, so he would "reminisce about the past and think of the newcomers" and become a historical record.
Beethoven, the great composer, failed to go to college because of poverty. At the age of seventeen, he suffered from typhoid fever and smallpox. At the age of 26, he was unfortunately deaf and his love was frustrated. In this case, Beethoven vowed to "take life by the throat". In the tenacious struggle against fate, in the career of music creation, the fire of his life grew stronger and stronger. Adversity did not frighten him, but became a magnetic field for him to gain great vitality.
None of the works of the French painter John Fran? ois Miller when he was young can be sold. He fell into the abyss of poverty and despair. Later, he moved to the countryside. Although he still couldn't get rid of poverty, he didn't stop painting. Since then, his paintings have expressed more beautiful nature and simple farmers. Among them, "Sowing" and "Gleaning" have also become immortal works in the art museum. If he didn't have the spirit of never giving up and going forward, he would never have produced an immortal work.
Mao Zedong, a great man who once dominated China's political arena and led the working people in China to overthrow the three mountains and bury the exploitation system, walked more than 20 miles to borrow books from relatives and friends when he was a child because he had no money to buy books. Go out to herd cattle during the day and study hard under the dim soybean oil lamp at night. It is this spirit of pursuing knowledge and perseverance that has given him lofty ideals and ambitions and made him an outstanding people's leader in China.
Gorky, a famous writer, has experienced the bitterness of the world since he was a child. Although he was tired of work, he refused to give up reading for a moment. He often plagiarized other people's works at the urging of his boss and eventually became a famous writer.
Edison, a great American inventor, couldn't afford books and experimental equipment at home when he was a child, so he collected bottles and cans everywhere. Once, he did an experiment on the train and accidentally caused an explosion. The conductor slapped him in the face and he was deaf. The hardships of life and physical defects did not discourage him. He studied harder and eventually became a world-famous scientist.
There was a prince who was sentimental by nature and couldn't listen to sad stories the most. Whenever the news of natural and man-made disasters is reported to him, he sighs with tears: "God, that's terrible! I can't stand falling on me! "
However, bad luck finally came to him. In a sudden war, his father was killed, and his mother, bring disgrace to oneself, himself was taken away as a slave by the enemy and suffered inhuman torture. When he finally escaped from the jaws of death, he was disabled. Since then, he has been living in a foreign country, begging for a living.
I met him when he was begging. Seeing his extraordinary appearance, I asked him about his life experience. After listening to his words, I was in tears and issued the same sigh that he once issued:
"Oh my god, that's terrible! I can't stand falling on me! "
Who knows his positive color way-
"Sir, please don't say that. All human disasters, no matter who falls on them, must be endured, and they can be endured-as long as they are not dead. As for death, it's easier. "
The fallen prince walked away on crutches. One day, bad luck befell me, and a familiar sigh rang out in my ear:
"Oh my god, that's terrible ..."