On September 29, 1904, a boy was born in an ordinary family in the village of Viria on the western border of Ukraine. He is Ostrovsky, the author of the famous book "How Steel is Made", and he himself is the prototype of Paul in the work. Due to his family's poverty, he began working as a child laborer at the age of 11, joined the Ukrainian Communist Youth League at the age of 13, joined the Red Army in the same year, and was seriously injured in a fierce battle at the age of 16, forced to return home to recuperate, and studied at the Unified Labor School. At the age of 18, he participated in the road construction project at the Boyarka construction site, suffered from severe cold due to overwork, and later participated in the rescue of logs, and had a severe attack on arthritis and was confirmed to be severely disabled. But he hid a first-class disability certificate and asked the organization to arrange work. After that, he went to Berezdov, where he was elected secretary of the regimental branch and later became a reserve member of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Brazzaville). At the age of 20, he was transferred to Ijaslav, served as the secretary of the district party committee of the Communist Youth League, became a full party member, and once served as the secretary of the Shepetovka oblast committee of the Communist Youth League, but later his illness worsened and he was treated in various places. At the age of 23, his body was paralyzed and his eyes gradually lost sight. It was in this context that he created works such as How Steel is Made and Born of a Storm, during which he experienced the loss of manuscripts in the mail and the ordeal of a car accident. He was awarded the Order of Lenin on 1 October 1935 and died of illness in December of the following year at the age of 32.
He famously said, "The most precious thing about man is life; life belongs to us only once." Man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back on the past, he does not regret his wasted years, nor is he ashamed of his inaction; when he is dying, he can say: I have devoted my whole life and all my energy to the most magnificent cause in the world, the struggle for the liberation of mankind, which is a true portrayal of his personal life, and has also touched and inspired countless generations of people to rise up in life, not to succumb to the arrangements of fate, to realize their capitalized life.
Man should live with lofty pursuits.
Ostrovsky was a loyal communist whose pursuit was to work for the Party and to achieve the great communist cause. He is not doing it for the sake of money, power, status, etc., for personal selfishness! He wants to do everything he can to build a better society. His pursuits were fully integrated into his mind and soul, a true love and faith, and therefore also transformed into his personality and actions. In his letter to Liu Qian, he said: "You asked me in your letter, what does the party give me? Give me what I don't have, that is, a powerful, grand cause that we drive. We just love it and dedicate our whole body and mind to it. "I am willing to contribute the last strength and the last hope to the party." I myself am the son of a proletarian, a worker, and in spite of my short life, I devote myself wholeheartedly to the activities of the Party, and I have the right to a place in the extended family known as communism. In his letter to Davidova, he made it clear: "In my mind, the party is almost equal to everything. In his letter to Pavlovna, he said: "I have always kept in my heart the purpose of life— the reason for my self-forgiveness—to fight for socialism." This is the highest love. "Look at how splendid our lives are, and how fascinating the struggle for the revival and prosperity of the nation is. Dedicate yourself to it, and the sun will caress you again. He also said: "The most beautiful thing in life is to stop surviving, and everything you create is still serving people." His friend Loza said he was "as pure as crystal."
Ostrovsky, or the image of Paul he created, reveals an important life question, that is, should people live for the public good, or for their own selfish interests? Throughout the ages, philosophers and educators have even debated this, deriving a collectivist and individualistic outlook on life. Ostrovsky's resounding and proud answer was undoubtedly the former.
When people live, they should love life, cherish life, live endlessly, struggle non-stop, dare to struggle, and never give in.
In the face of all the tribulations in life, Ostrovsky maintained the brave and fearless fighting spirit of a warrior, living actively and vigorously, living with indomitable integrity, living optimistically, and living with achievement! Even when he was paralyzed and blind, he asked his family to find cardboard to cut out the spaces and fumble around writing on the white paper under the hollowed-out grids. He wrote not to earn a fee, not to be famous, but to work, "to take up new weapons and return to the ranks of the fighting and start a new life." "Books are my warriors, and I will guide them to fight." He said: "As long as a Bolshevik's heart is beating, he has no right to declare that he has been conquered." "The disease tried to destroy me and leave me behind, but I said 'never surrender' because I was convinced that I would be victorious." At the end of his life, he still encouraged his wife to bravely endure the test of life: "Life is unpredictable... You remember how life has tormented me, but instead of surrendering, I stubbornly march towards my predetermined goal." "What I'm saying to you now may be the last well-organized thing to say. My life is not bad. I experienced and endured everything. Nothing is easy to come by. I've fought... He even said humorously: "It just so happens that I have insomnia, which is conducive to the fact that some people at work will be better off when they rest, and some people will be better off when they work."
Pavlovsky, a doctor who treated Ostrovsky and later became his close friend, wrote in his diary: "Pain tends to make people not only willful and calculating, but also irritable and arrogant, and they are not in a good mood, but they vent to those around them... But there is another situation: the ability to self-analyze is enhanced, the mind is constantly contemplating, and the person becomes wiser and more compassionate. I have met such patients. He tasted all the pain, but maintained an endless, fiery love for life, and was still an optimist. Klabrowitzkaya, director of the Ostrovsky Memorial, said: "Ostrovsky's novel is a monument to the brave spirit, which commemorates how high a person can climb to the top." Thus Ostrovsky's novels have transcended the boundaries of purely literary phenomena, and the novel and the life of its author have helped many people in the predicament of life, helping them to overcome personal tragedies and gain meaning in life...". The famous French writer and Nobel laureate in literature, Romain Roland, prefaced the French edition of How Steel is Made" and said of Ostrovsky: "For the world, you will be a noble example of the triumph of the spirit over the betrayal of personal fate". Gorky believed that "his life was a shining example of the triumph of the mind over the flesh". Guo Moruo praised: "Although he suffers from a serious illness, his creativity and vitality have greatly surpassed ordinary people."
Ostrovsky used cutout cardboard and part of the original manuscript when writing
People live, should have pursuits, do not yield.
If the above two connotations are briefly summarized, it is: people live, should have pursuits, and do not yield. These two points are precisely interrelated. The more lofty a person's pursuit, the more concerned he is for the interests of the public, the more open-minded he is, the more he will not indulge in personal fly-and-dog, right and wrong gains and losses, and the more likely he is to generate a strong spiritual motivation, tenaciously overcome the difficulties and obstacles he faces, and unswervingly live and fight. The more a person is full of personal interests, the more he will be preoccupied with personal gains and losses, the more likely he is to be anxious and depressed, or to take advantage of a little advantage and secretly proud, but finally he walks into a narrow dead end. As Ostrovsky said: "If the things of the individual occupy a great place in the mind, and the things of the public occupy a small corner, then the confusion of the individual's life is almost equivalent to the catastrophe." "The self-interested perish first." He lives on his own and for himself. If this 'I' of his is damaged, then he cannot survive. "Noble pursuits and unyielding are perfectly combined and embodied in Ostrovsky.
Pravda reporter Kritsov wrote after interviewing Ostrovsky: "What cultivated his brave character? What supports this person's mental and physical strength today? It can only be his boundless love for the collective, for the party, and for the grand cause of the motherland's construction, and can only be his ardent desire to be a person who is beneficial to the party and the people. Of course, Ostrovsky was a flesh-and-blood man after all, suffering great hardships in life, and he had thought of suicide, but he finally relied on his tenacious spiritual strength to overcome himself. In How Steel is Made, he uses Paul's mental activity to describe his psychological struggle: "Every idiot will shoot himself at any time. To get out of the predicament, this is the most cowardly and labor-saving way. Live hard, just snap a shot. But have you ever tried to overcome this life? ...... Even when life is unbearable, you have to try to survive. You want to make life worthwhile." In real life, Ostrovsky said in a letter to Davydova: "If I had not taken the firm idea of fighting to the last moment as the basis of being a human being, I would have shot myself and killed myself... Only we, only those like me who love life, love struggle, love work (the work of building a much better new world), only those of us who see the whole essence of life, even if there is only a glimmer of hope left, will not kill ourselves."
Ostrovsky's noble pursuit and self-sacrifice embody the supreme goodness of human nature! Ostrovsky's lifelong spirit of resistance to "never surrender" and the tenacious effort to "make life valuable" embody the supremacy of life! He is truly a strong man of life, a man of pure capital letters! Looking at our lives, some people have sound limbs, but they are muddy and have to live and live. Some people are prosperous, should be studying hard, working hard, but the pursuit of pleasure, confused and decadent, waste of time, do not want to forge ahead. Some people run away when they encounter difficulties, and collapse when they encounter setbacks. Although there may be many reasons, the most fundamental thing is the lack of life goals, mental lack of calcium, and "hollow heart disease" and "hypochondriasis".
Therefore, people, especially young people, should set up lofty ideals to pursue. Only when you have the world in your heart can you have the world. Personal and social ideals are not diametrically opposed. Only by pursuing great pursuits can we have a big pattern, a big responsibility, and a big achievement, but the starting point is to fight for the interests of the public. As Dr. Sun Yat-sen said: "Young people should aspire to do great things, not aspire to become big officials." Although the times are developing, the requirements of the social environment for individuals are also changing, and everyone's pursuit and life are more diverse, but establishing a correct outlook on life and values is always the primary condition for people to live a good life! In addition, young people should learn to temper their strong and resolute character in the face of setbacks. Ostrovsky said: "Steel is exercised in a fiery fire and a sharp cooling, so it can be hard and not afraid of anything." In this way, we have also been tempered in struggles and terrible tests, learned to have the courage to overcome setbacks, and learned not to yield in the face of life. ”
Yes, there is sunshine, flowers, milk tea, cake, applause in life... There are also hazes, thorns, poverty, failure, sickness, death... Unyielding is the strongest sound of the music of life, the brightest color of the flower of life, and the true character of a hero! Whether it is an outstanding person or the general public, in the face of hardships and hardships, as long as there is unyielding courage and action, he is a hero! If a person really loves life, then he will have a positive and bright pursuit; if a person really has a positive and bright pursuit, then he will cherish time, put it into action, and go forward without hesitation. For people, there is breathing, can eat, that is only the flesh is alive, there is a pursuit, not yielding, that is life is alive! Heroes are not without tears, but people who can run forward with tears in their eyes. (Image from the Internet)