"When I was young, I dreamed of changing the world. When I grow up, I find I can't change the world. . . . . . "

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This passage on the stone tablet of Westminster Abbey in England has to arouse our reflection. Between ideal and reality, what we should consider most is the problem of reality. Reality is the measure of your goal. From a realistic perspective, we should start with small things and small goals.

Ideals should be based on reality. For example, Lu Xun vowed to become a doctor because of his father's illness when he was a teenager, and later witnessed the social situation. He only practices medicine for the body, but he can't heal the mind. Therefore, he resolutely abandoned medicine and became a writer, later Lu Xun. Just imagine, if Lu Xun didn't realize the misery of the real society in those days and waited until he was old to regret it, how could it cause a storm on his deathbed? How can you stick your sharp pen into the enemy's heart? The answer is naturally no.

The consequences of absurd ideals. The ten-year Cultural Revolution seriously hindered the development of the whole society. The wrong policy plunged New China into a new struggle. The history textbook says, "A radish weighs a kilo, and rice grows taller than people." Such ridiculous remarks turned out to be the slogan of everyone's belief at that time. And how many of those cultural elements were savagely attacked by anti-cultural elements at that time?

Those absurd ideals completely ignore reality and exaggerate blindly. If people at that time were sober-minded and not confused by reactionaries, that would be another matter. Maybe he wouldn't have such a big turmoil, our culture wouldn't have been destroyed so badly, and intellectuals wouldn't have been wronged. The absurd ideal is terrible. It only blindly pursues dreams, but never thinks about whether it can be realized in real life.

The crazy ideals of the invaders. Those arrogant invaders want to dominate the world. Then, the war began, and people's endless suffering followed. The cruel Verdun meat grinder slaughtered countless young lives in such a short time, and all the living people disappeared instantly, as if it were a hell on earth. The pain left by Picasso's guernica is the misfortune of a humble and weak town. He made us more deeply aware of the ferocity of the invaders. However, those invaders may just not understand that the world is complementary to each other, they can't win forever, and their ambition to dominate the world can't be realized. Every country will learn from each other. Their ideals will only make them eat their own fruit and bring about their own destruction.

I think, as a man, he should have an ideal, because man is the most advanced animal, he can think, but the ideal must be based on reality. Only when this ideal can be established in reality, and you can achieve it, will you bear the sweetest and most attractive fruit.