There is no insurmountable barrier in life. As long as you continue step by step without slacking off, you will find happiness on the other side.

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The famous saying "Failure is the mother of success" inspired me to help my father get rid of his bad habit of smoking.

War

Dad loves to smoke, and he smokes dozens of cigarettes a day, which fills the whole house with the smell of cigarette smoke and makes my mother and I often dizzy. One day I couldn't bear it anymore and ran to my father angrily and said angrily: "Dad, stop smoking. Mom and I are going to be dizzy from your cigarettes." Dad ignored him and stood up, throwing it away casually. I wrote a sentence: "Smoking is good for health." I looked at the background of my father leaving, and kept muttering in my heart: Smoking is good for health. I think he is confused by smoking, forget it, I won't argue with him, and wait until he wakes up. I will reason with him later. My mother seemed like she couldn't bear it anymore. She cooperated with me several times to persuade my father, but he turned a deaf ear to our words, going in and out of one ear. I decided to help my father quit smoking. I wanted to start the battle to quit smoking.

A battle of wits and courage

My mother and I started a battle of wits and courage with my father. Once, we put away Dad's ashtrays, but Dad seemed to have installed an observer at home. He found all the ashtrays as soon as he got home. Seeing my dejected look, he immediately guessed what I was thinking and said, "Failure is the mother of success." I immediately woke up after hearing this. He came to his father and said gently: "Dad, smoking is harmful to your health. If someone else smokes the cigarette you smoke, your life will be shortened by 15 seconds immediately. If you smoke, you will also get the same result as your life. Dad, please wake up. For the sake of mother, For my sake and yours, please don’t smoke, okay?" Dad didn’t listen to the advice and continued to smoke. I was really frustrated.

Victory

But I remembered what my mother said, and with unremitting efforts, my father slowly smoked from dozens to more than a dozen to a few, and finally he stopped smoking. One month and two months passed like this. One day I wanted to test whether my father still wanted to smoke, so I put a cigarette on the table and hid in the room to watch what my father was doing outside. My father saw the cigarette on the table. , just about to pick it up, suddenly he seemed to remember something and broke the cigarette. After seeing it, I jumped three feet high with joy. I am victorious.

"Failure is the mother of success" will always be remembered in my heart. It allowed me to help my father quit smoking. The famous saying gave me strength and made me understand a truth: Don't be discouraged when encountering difficulties. Bow to it, but should go through countless failures before you can achieve final success.