Change yourself

Life is often not smooth sailing. Sometimes, in order to make greater progress, we need to change ourselves.

Changing yourself is a process of self-improvement. Lü Meng, the famous Soochow general during the Three Kingdoms period, is a good example. At the beginning, Lü Meng only knew how to wield swords and guns, but could not cultivate cultural knowledge diligently. After Sun Quan pointed this out to Lü Meng, Lü Meng studied hard. Later, even Lu Su said: After seeing each other for three days, you should look at each other with admiration. Lu Meng changed himself because of Sun Quan's words, and truly achieved both civil and military skills, laying the foundation for Wu's hegemony. Lu Meng naturally improved his personality and cultivation and successfully changed himself.

Changing ourselves can hone our will. The caterpillar turns into a butterfly and has gone through a lot of hard work. If it gives up once, it will be in vain. The process of changing yourself is like climbing a mountain. Facing the new self at the top of the mountain, you can only reach the top of the mountain with unremitting efforts. Although you will encounter difficulties that you never expected during the mountaineering process, if you overcome them, you will eventually find that your willpower is stronger than before. As you change yourself, you also hone your will. This is fundamentally inevitable and mutually reinforcing.

Changing ourselves can help us better adapt to life. Everyone's life cannot be smooth sailing. What will you do when you encounter a new living environment? The answer is to change yourself. Because you can't ask society or others to change anything for you. I know two people, A and B. Their personalities are very introverted and even somewhat closed-minded. After entering junior high school, A took the initiative to change himself in order to better adapt to the living environment. When he graduated from junior high school, he had many good friends. His social skills became stronger and his social circle became wider. On the other hand, B, he was even more mature than before. occlusion. It can be seen that changing ourselves can help us better adapt to the living environment.

Changing yourself is fundamentally about re-understanding and re-creating yourself. When you find that you need to make changes, it shows that you have a clear mind. Be able to realize that you need to make some changes to live a better life. This is an increase in self-awareness. This kind of improvement is what we need, and driven by this kind of re-understanding, you have re-created yourself. People who can change themselves are extraordinary people. This kind of re-creation will help in future life. When we face adversity or setbacks, we can immediately realize that we need to change and take action immediately, and we can already reach the state of "change".

So, let us all learn to change ourselves. In order to make greater progress, we must be good at changing ourselves and dare to change ourselves, so as to obtain a new self!

Change yourself

A big tree that had grown in the mountains for many years had its branches and leaves pruned and then transplanted into a newly built park. People gathered around it and talked about it. One said: "Without this transplant, it would not be appreciated by others. If you want to be appreciated, you must change your living environment." But I want to say: "If you want to be appreciated, you must change yourself!"

Everyone is a beautiful landscape. There is only one unique you in the world, and the world will not change for you. Therefore, we have to change ourselves! The environment will never actively adapt to ourselves, but we can change ourselves, adapt to the environment, and achieve success.

Perhaps, we do not have the romance of Zhuang Zhou’s dream of butterfly, nor the detachment of Zhuangzi’s “you can do it in the mud”; perhaps, we cannot be like the lonely fighter Lu Xun who sacrificed his blood for Xuanyuan and profoundly revealed the Chinese nation’s thousands of years of history. We may not have the courage of Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf but explored the unknown world with her soul, but at least we can change ourselves and accept the influence of "Zhuangzi" and "The Scream" and "Wandering" With the strong voice, let yourself be baptized by "If You Give Me Three Days of Light". With the help of books, let your heart boil subtly and change yourself.

When Tao Yuanming, who had been an official for only more than 70 days, signed his seal and retired to the countryside to live in seclusion in the mountains, he changed himself.

He could not change the darkness of officialdom. He could only change himself. He did not bow down to five buckets of rice and kept company with chrysanthemums. Although his official career was lost, his noble ambition was appreciated by history and remembered by future generations. When the imperial scholar Li Bai called to the white deer he kept among the green cliffs and rode to famous mountains, he changed himself. Li Bai thought he would show his great ambitions, but he didn't expect that he would just sing praises to the court. Unable to change his officialdom, he had no choice but to change his ambitions and focus on the mountains and rivers, surveying the famous mountains and rivers. Although he failed to realize his dream of traveling across the world, he created half of the prosperous Tang Dynasty of poetry and was praised by future generations. They changed themselves and at the same time changed the times. Although they were not admired by people of the time, they were remembered by future generations and shined in the sky of history.

Those who cannot change themselves can only be eliminated by the environment. Although the old shoemaker in Galsworthy's "Quality" has the best shoemaking skills in the city, he is unwilling to change himself, making him unable to keep up with the mechanization era. He insists on making each pair of shoes by hand, and eventually starves. Died in his shoe shop. Only by changing yourself can you keep up with the times and avoid being eliminated by the environment.

Change is an eternal law. Only by changing yourself can the blood of will and the sweat of hard work turn into a long-lasting nectar, and only then can the unfading hope and immortal dream build an impregnable iron wall...