Xinhua News Agency, Together with Sina Weibo and Xinshixiang, launched the #Year-end Question 2021# campaign, inviting four pioneers of the times - Zhang Guimei, Zhang Wenhong, Su Bingtian and Wang Chi to respond to the confusion and thoughts raised by everyone on the road of growth. According to the messages and questions from the whole network, starting today, we will release 4 sincere replies one after another, and 4 replies will share their most sincere thoughts on life.
"In the face of ordinary life, how to find your own extraordinary?"
"The conditions at home are average, can reading change your destiny?"
Zhang Guimei, principal of Huaping Girls' Senior High School in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, answered these questions with a sincere letter. Zhang Guimei said that the opportunity to change the fate has always been there, do not be afraid, the "cold winter" of life with inevitable hope. "I write you this letter, hoping that from the experience I have told you, you will feel a little warmth, a little strength."
Do not be afraid, the "cold winter" of life carries inevitable hope
The children:
Hello, I'm Zhang Guimei. It is a particularly warm thing to be able to communicate with you in this way at the end of 2021.
Although we have not met, reading your message, I seem to see the young faces behind the questions that are either confused, or confused, or are seriously thinking about themselves and the future.
In this year, perhaps you have your own difficulties: you have to face the pressure of your own education, work, emotions, etc., but also face the inner anxiety and struggle brought about by the changes in the external environment. Everyone wants life to move forward, but we also have to face the moments in life when the pace slows down or even stops. Many of you have asked me a question: "I think my life may be like this, I am very hard, should I admit my fate?" ”
I believe that life in the inevitable "winter" also carries inevitable hope. No one wants to go through a cold, but it often comes uninvited and unselected; and few people dare to be sure that the future will be smooth, but if you have experienced and seen it, you will believe it, and are willing to give it strongly to others, so that everyone around them can feel it.
Most of my life, I was not so "comfortable", it could be said that it was very "painful". I lost my mother when I was very young. In my youth, my father left me again. I thought that after coming to Dali, I would have a stable teaching job and meet a husband who loved me, I would be able to live a plain and stable life, and I could change from a naïve girl to a happy woman. But the sudden change completely broke my life plan, my husband was diagnosed with cancer, and despite raising all the money for treatment, he insisted on it for a year and left me. I left with him, as well as the happiness and beauty that I had briefly had in my life.
It was the darkest time of my life. At that time, in my eyes, the mountains of Dali were no longer beautiful, and the water was no longer green... Happiness feels far and far away from you. Later, I asked to be transferred to the remote Lijiang Huaping. Saying that it is "transferring posts" is actually trying to find someone who knows me and will not let me remember any beautiful place in my life, and "exile" myself. At that time, you told me hope and the future, and I didn't want to hear it.
You must have experienced a time in your life when it felt like the whole world was against you, and all the bad luck had befallen you.
The process of getting out of pain is sometimes worse than the pain itself. At that time, I was just an ordinary young man, and I was not so strong in the face of setbacks. I just tried to make myself struggle a little more, still holding out a glimmer of hope. In the process of getting out of the pain, the people around me extended their hands to me, making me feel the warmth of the world. It was that little bit of struggle, that little bit of warmth, that made me persevere again and again.
We need each other's love at all times. If you feel miserable and confused, and look at other people, you will find that your destiny is both unique and common. Commonality will allow you not to be afraid of being alone and reach out to each other when necessary; uniqueness can help you truly go down the path you are happy to follow.
I am still living a very "bitter" life, accumulating a body of illness. Often this problem eases a little, and the problem becomes serious again. When it gets worse and worse, my heart is also very uncomfortable. But the "suffering" now is a kind of suffering that I am willing to pay. Because I have a clear goal, I'm going to take the kids out of the mountains, and I'm going to achieve it. If you have a goal, you have motivation, and you don't feel so bitter.
Children, you need to have a big purpose in life to help you through those painful, unsustainable moments. But big goals are like a mountain that needs to be climbed for a long time. You also need to find a "way" up the mountain, complete a specific small goal in your daily routine, and climb up step by step. Crawling and crawling, you may have walked through that dark road, and you can see the sun in the clouds.
I write this letter to you, hoping that from the experience I have told you, you will feel a little warmth, a little strength. This is the small goal I'm accomplishing today. I have a lot of small goals to accomplish today, such as I'm going to see how the kids are taking the quiz later. Urging them to do a good job in every lesson and grasp every point is also my small goal every day.
You may be just like me, completing the small goals of the day. Perhaps, looking for your "big goal". But as soon as you start thinking and acting, you are already on a path that is not easy, but also full of hope. Giving up and confessing is an endless "downhill road". Remember that in any moment that you are not aware of, including now, the opportunity to change your destiny through action is always there.
Source: Xinhua News Agency