What is the use of reading? Most people who ask this question don’t study. In this impetuous era where the theory of the uselessness of studying is prevalent, Mr. Yang Jiang’s words may be the best answer to this question: Studying is not to get a diploma or make a fortune, but to become a person. For people who are warm, understanding and thoughtful, although books cannot help you solve all your problems, they can provide you with a better perspective. Reading is just to meet a better version of yourself.
Reading can shape a person’s temperament. Zeng Guopan said in a letter home to his son that it is difficult to change a person’s temperament due to nature. Only reading can change his temperament. Those who are good at fortune-telling in ancient times can change their temperament. It is also said that reading can change the physical appearance, and the poetry and calligraphy in the abdomen can make people look at the world from a more profound perspective, and develop a body of righteousness, calmness, elegance, courage, and talent in a subtle way. Gentle and atmospheric, less tainted with evil, tacky, violent and stingy. Fan Yusu, who graduated from junior high school, can still cope with the continuous blows. Although she lives in a rental house in Pi Village, she can still write proud and beautiful poems. This is precisely because his long-term reading life has helped him cultivate a different state of mind and cultivation.
Studying can give people the capital to settle down and live. The Chinese Poetry Conference made every audience remember Dong Qing, a CCTV sister who could easily pick up Tang poetry and Song lyrics, famous quotes, and accumulated a lot of money. Her ability to achieve such achievements is inseparable from her long-term persistence in reading. Dong Qing was like this when she was a child. A bookworm works, and no matter how busy she is in the future, she will insist on reading for an hour every day. Andy, who is full of intellectual wisdom and charm, and Fan Shengmei, who is often anxious, are two characters with obvious contrasts in Ode to Joy. The only difference between the two is their growth. Outside the environment, Andy's bookshelf filled with books and Fan Shengmei's cabin filled with clothes and leather bags seemed to give the answer from another angle.
Reading can temper and sharpen people’s will and quality. Although we have always advocated happy learning, real reading is not easy and comfortable. If you want to achieve neutrality, you have to search for her in Baidu, and suddenly suddenly Looking back, that person was in a state where the lights were dim. He had to go through the pain and torture of wearing clothes that were getting wider and wider and never regretting it. He was haggard because of his pain. There is a 10,000-hour rule in the West. If you want to achieve something in a certain field, Achievement requires 10,000 hours of hard work. Reading and growing up are the process of saying goodbye to your past self. It is like turning a cocoon into a butterfly and a golden cicada to escape its shell. There will be pain at every step. Every time you grow up, you will test and temper your will.
Writer Mai Jia once said that no matter how much money you make, it is all outside your body, and no matter how little you read, it is all in your heart. Reading is a kind of thinking and understanding of the world. It is a kind of positive attitude that is unwilling to accept the status quo. Attitude to life, reading cannot directly bring you wealth, but persisting in reading will make your heart full and vivid. You will eventually get the life you want. Go and read, and hope to meet a better self.