This sentence comes from a 37-year-old takeaway boy named Lei Haiwei. In the final of the third season of "Chinese Poetry Conference", he defeated Peng Min, a master of Peking University, and became the overall champion.
? When Lei Haiwei won the ninth game, Dong Qing raised his arms and shouted?
Some people think that reading poetry is useless, but this will not make Lei Haiwei win. any improvement in real-life conditions. Even after winning the championship, he was still the same delivery boy. ?
But Dong Qing said something in the program, which is the best counterattack against this view: Any time you spend on reading will be rewarded to you at a certain moment.
Working hard should be the most pure thing.
Lei Haiwei signed up for the Ji Poetry Conference, but his resume was in vain. Lei Haiwei didn't give up until he finally got a response in the third season. ?
In high school, because he failed to transfer to a better school, his mood plummeted and he had no intention of studying, so he failed to enter college. At the age of 20, Lei Haiwei left his hometown to work. Salesman, electrician, car washer... he's done it all. ?
When Lei Haiwei was 23 years old, he accidentally saw a book called "Must-Read Poetry Writing" in a bookstore and was deeply attracted by the poems in the book. From then on, he devoted himself to reading during weekends. Go to a bookstore and read poetry books.
"Because there are too many books in this field. Although I like them, I can't buy them all. I just memorize them in the bookstore and then silently write down the poems when I get home. If there is one If he forgets two words, he will have to read them again next time he goes to the bookstore."?
He would write down each song on paper after reciting it. As of today, there are 1,070 entries, and the paper on which I recorded it at the beginning is yellowed and wrinkled.
Every time while waiting for food, a colleague next to him would take out his mobile phone to play games, and he would quietly read poetry books. He said, "I am very happy if I can memorize one or two songs a day."
At the end of the ninth game, Lei Haiwei won the championship. Lei Haiwei said, "At that moment, I completely felt what it means to be surrounded by waves of applause."?
Professor Li Bo of Nanjing Normal University said of him, "The sea and the sky are vast, and he has great achievements." ?
Now Lei Haiwei has returned to Hangzhou and continues to deliver food, and his ordinary life is no different from before. Faced with compliments from relatives and friends, he is often at a loss and doesn't know how to respond.
"It is very popular now to say "poetry and distance". I think this is a pursuit in the world, an eternal pursuit. No matter what the current living environment is, people must have dreams and pursuits. < /p>
For me, poetry means a kind of spiritual sustenance, and I can get happiness from it. The distance is the good life that needs to be pursued. ”
For a good spiritual life. Pursuit is all about personal choice. It can break through the limitations of economic conditions and make people always wary of compromise in reality.
There was hot news last year about a pair of parents who were sanitation workers. Their combined monthly salary was only 6,000 yuan, but they fully supported their daughter to study abroad.
The daughter’s expenses are relatively large. In addition to working from dawn to dusk every day, the couple also borrowed money from relatives and friends. The daughter’s study abroad was not smooth, and she took the IELTS test 7 times before passing.
This was originally an inspiring story about the struggle of children from poor families, but unexpectedly the comments were full of doubts.
Some netizens ridiculed the couple for holding on despite having no financial resources, while others accused the daughter of being ignorant and exploiting her parents.
Some people even take it upon themselves to design a "better" way out for girls: come back and become a teacher and find someone to marry in two years. This is the right way.
Some people not only think that poor people should not enjoy good things, they even think that poor people should not work hard. You, the daughter of a sanitation worker, do you dream of studying abroad?
Many modern people are worried about the solidification of class every day, feeling that their own path to advancement is blocked. In fact, what they are worried about is that the class above them is solidified, while the small farmers who should be below them are not. I wish I could step on them so that they can act like poor people.
Everyone cannot choose their birth, but their destiny is not unchangeable. It is precisely because they are unwilling to be what poor people should be that they can complete a tragic counterattack. You have no right to laugh at such a person.
"Inspirational Grandma" Hou Yuqing is over eighty years old. Although she never went to school for a day as a child, she learned to read and read with persistence;
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Hou Yuqing/“Inspirational Grandma”
Japanese Masako Wakamiya only started to use computers when she was 60 years old and learned to chat and type.
It only took her half a year to develop a mobile game APP. At the age of 83, she was invited to participate in the 2017 Apple Developer Conference.
Apple CEO Cook said: "Your presence gives us a lot of courage."
?Apple CEO Cook and Masako Wakamiya?
She also gave a TED speech and greeted the audience in English, with standard pronunciation and a sonorous tone.
Her ultimate goal is to design other apps that will entertain older people and convey to younger people the culture and traditions that older people have.
Wakamiya Masako said that she was too busy every day and had no time to get sick.
"Academic Grandma" Xue Minxiu failed to enter college when she was young, but she never stopped studying throughout her life. She taught herself Russian, Latin, English, and French, and took the college entrance examination again at the age of 76.
In February this year, at the age of 81, she received a diploma from Tianjin University. ?
Xue Minxiu gets up at five o'clock in the morning and starts a new day of study
Xue Minxiu said: "I think the meaning of life is to constantly challenge yourself and improve yourself. When you grow up, you will I found that the definition of success is changing.
For me, the most important thing in life is to live authentically, not to succumb to the pressure of peers, not to be limited by stereotypes, not to let other people's pressures lead to limited time. Opinions drown out one’s original intentions.”
Should poor people look like poor people? . ?
No, poor people should have a broader vision. ?
If you have nothing to begin with, if you don’t even have vision and ambition, you are destined to remain poor. ?
There is a famous saying that goes well, what kind of life a person wants to live can be what kind of life he wants to live. ?
Only if you are unwilling to be mediocre can you have a chance to counterattack. But being poor is the scariest thing.
In the movie "Yangtze River No. 7", the casual worker played by Stephen Chow goes to the foreman to apply for more work. ?
The foreman said, if you have money to buy an electric fan for your son, why not pay it back to me first? I paid for your wife’s funeral expenses. You don’t even have food to support your son in a noble school. My son is What's the difference between going to a regular school?
Mr. Xing said that he just wanted him to study better and not be like me when he grows up. ?
The foreman said that you must be capable. You are just a casual worker. Why? ?
Master Xing said, I can handle it. The foreman said you can't handle it. ?
Mr. Xing continued to say that he could bear it. The foreman yelled: I can’t stand it! ?
Mr. Xing smiled again and said: You can handle it...?
Many people are like foremans, shouting loudly towards the poor, you are just a casual worker, accept your fate.
So it does not matter if a person is poor, as long as he does not accept his fate, he will have unlimited possibilities in the future.
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