Retrospective - Watching the movie "Wind and Rain Harvard Road" has a feeling

Everyone's success is destined to be extraordinary.

- Caption

This girl' name is Liz Murray.

Perhaps "out of the mud without staining" is the best description of her.

She couldn't back down, she could only move forward.

"Retrospective".

(i)

An extraordinary girl with an extraordinary childhood has created an extraordinary life for herself and achieved an extraordinary miracle that seems impossible.

The mother is addicted to drugs and alcoholism, the father is idle without paying the rent, the grandfather is impatient and cruel... A strong and weak girl matures prematurely in this "mud pit" environment. Forced to take care of her drunken mother, she must do her best to earn money for her father, and she must pretend to be indifferent in front of everyone. Even if she was a child, even if she didn't understand the world, she had to bear it. Always. Always.

She's always been a kid. She doesn't brush her hair, she doesn't shower every day, she doesn't complain. At school, she was an alternative, a "smelly child." Being pushed, she endured: the body was thrown garbage, she endured: the hot soup was spilled on the shoulder, and she also endured. She liked to read, but she didn't like to go to school: she was talented, but she didn't understand why she was so disgusted. Suddenly, she hadn't been to school for months. She was hiding, she didn't want to put up with it anymore, she had to put up with it. What can be done. She didn't want to tell anyone, she thought it was really annoying.

During that time, she was particularly fond of escaping from reality and reminiscing about the past. She didn't even allow people to mention sensitive words about family.

Survive every day in a foggy way, get by and live, and only be satisfied with the present life.

She has since fallen deeper and deeper into this quagmire.

(ii)

Her father was taken into a shelter, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and she became a wanderer ever since. She had to go to school or she wouldn't have a place to live. She made her first friend in life, Kriz. She finally had someone to accompany her, and she also had a home. They are equally homeless, they are equally stranded on the streets. In order to survive, they had to beg on the street, they had to go to the shops to steal things, and they had to stay overnight on the subway bus. Although it was few, the good villain had a companion and ended up happy. Her life seemed to be half better.

But fate always likes to give people a blow to the head, and pours a basin of cold water on the head of this enthusiasm. The mother, who was suffering from AIDS, died. She ran alone to a far, far away place, slumped on the roof of the building, and cried on her knees. At that moment, all the memories burst out, mixed with all the grievances and resentments in the heart. She cried so sadly, so selflessly.

Now it's good that my mother is gone, and even her soul has no home.

She looked sheepishly at her mother's coffin into the earth, as if suddenly remembering something, and she flew forward and lay on her stomach on her mother's coffin. She seemed to hear her mother's whispered advice, and saw her mother sliding happily down the grass with her very early on. She knew that in a few days, no one would find the place, no signs, no tombstones...

Suddenly, she understood the meaning of life. Her mother was gone, she didn't want to disappoint her mother, she wasn't willing to be a nameless weed. Now she was unaccompanied, and her mother's death cut off all her retreats, which did not allow her to choose. She no longer wants to stay in the orphanage to receive help from others, and she thinks that now she has grown up. She wants to say goodbye to the past and use her own efforts to give herself a satisfactory life. There is a saying that When God closes the door for you, he will open a window for you. She impressed the professor with her excellent grades and her own tragic experience, and was immediately admitted to a school early. At that time, she already understood what to do and what not to do, she had already been able to distinguish between right and wrong, and she had long learned to choose. She knew that this opportunity had not come easily, and she knew that it was the only way for her to rewrite her life. She decided to push herself. Her ideal— Harvard.

Memorize words on the bus to school every day, be the first to arrive at school every day, and go home at the latest every day. What if she came from a very humble background, what if she had never been to school, what if she had only gone to middle school at the age of sixteen!? She thinks she can do it!

"People like us can't succeed, let alone go to Harvard!"

"Don't be whimsical!"

"That's too hard!"

The controversy grew, and Liz just said lightly:

"I can."

Yeah, she can. She really grew. She discovers that her friend Kriz is not motivated and resolutely distances herself from her. She seized any opportunity she could. It took her two years to complete all the courses in the high school, and it took her two years to get to the first place in the school.

Yes, first in the school.

She was admitted to Harvard.

yes. She did. She can.

(iii)

When the last bit of security in her heart is also exploited, she can only be forced to look forward, she must move forward, there is no way back.

In the face of difficulties, don't blame fate for not making an effort.

Fate gave her a very low starting point, but in the face of fate, she did not give up on herself, but chose to rise up.

In fact, from the beginning, she just wanted a little bit of the most universal affection. But this heaven did not give her half a cent.

She finally succeeded.

Always, always.

Let go of the burden and let it pass so that you can move on.

- Epilogue

Kokyo was written on the eighth

Won the "Top Ten Writers" study on campus