Zhang Wenhong, who once wanted to resign because his salary was too low, also struggled with uneasiness and anxiety

"Looking back on my youth, I have also struggled with uneasiness and anxiety."

Zhang Wenhong, director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases Medicine, wrote a reply to encourage the young people. Zhang Wenhong said that life is always anxious and hopeful, and the flow of water must be the first, relying on endless. "By not giving up in the face of every seemingly ordinary choice, we can all be part of this great era."

youngster:

Seeing your letters, I feel very warm, as if I see my young self.

This year has gone by particularly quickly. In the blink of an eye, it has been two years since the fight against the epidemic, and in these two years, the epidemic in China has been well controlled, but the world is still not far from the impact of the pandemic, and normal life has been repeatedly interrupted. "Uncertainty" became a high-frequency topic.

In these pandemic times, our daily lives seem to become more trivial. In particular, young friends originally have endless visions and plans for the future, but changes always thwart the planned life again and again, making people doubt whether they can go to the desired destination according to the original plan; in the face of new life choices, they will also doubt whether they should persist or give up.

Some people divide the crowd into front waves and back waves. In fact, no matter what era you are born in, the main color of young people's life is anxiety and hope. Young people, whether you agree or disagree, are destined to grow up with the times. But life is characterized by changes and jumps, full of sudden changes in fate. This kind of change and uncertainty, some people like, some people fear. Whenever we look back over an era, we will find that the road we have traveled is a process of turning uncertainty into certainty.

Since graduating from undergraduate, I have been practicing medicine for 28 years, and I have been engaged in clinical and research in infectious diseases for more than 25 years. 28 years, enough to turn a young man into an old man.

At the end of this year, I suddenly recalled that I had lived and worked hard in this city for so many years, and it seemed that I was just going to see a doctor, check the house, and live a "life" as usual, but the little details also seemed to constitute a life worth living.

Looking back on my youth, I have also struggled with uneasiness and anxiety. I graduated from college, at that time, the academic qualifications were more important, in order to have better development, I gave up the allocated Shanghai hukou quota and went to study for a master's degree. I graduated with a master's degree, and suddenly the hukou became important, in order to live better in Shanghai, I could raise my family and raise children, and I gave up the opportunity to study for a doctorate, and went to find Professor Weng Xinhua, the director of the Infectious Disease Department of Huashan Hospital at that time and my mentor since then, hoping to be assigned to the Infection Department. At that time, the department of infectious diseases was not very "popular", the entire discipline entered a trough of development, and many people resigned to work in foreign companies, which gave me the opportunity to win one of the few clinical positions in Shanghai's first-class hospitals every year like Huashan Hospital. A young man from out of town, landing in a strange city, survival is the first, and the ideal of the past has been temporarily forgotten. Back then, there was a choice at almost every step, there was never the best of both worlds, and I didn't know what choice was right.

Just 23 years ago, I thought about giving up. At that time, because the salary of the infectious disease department was extremely low, it was almost impossible to live in Shanghai, and I once resigned from Professor Weng Xinhua. The teacher said to respect my ideas, but made me hesitate any longer. It was such a hesitation that I couldn't bear to give up the desire to pursue a doctor for many years, which made me persist again.

Life may be like this, seemingly plain, but it will move forward a little bit. In 2001, I went to the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong for further study, and the team later isolated the SARS virus (SARS coronavirus) in 2003, and the other day took the lead in isolating the New Coronavirus strain of TheOmilon. After SARS, in order to make clinical research and scientific research more quickly connected with the world, I spent a year or two studying and working abroad. After returning, he continued to work as a doctor, spending every day in the daily life of visiting outpatient clinics, rounding rooms, and doing research, and in the middle of which he also went to the countryside to treat MDR-TB patients in poor areas. Until this COVID-19 outbreak, I began to deal with the coronavirus with my team on a daily basis.

Looking back now, these experiences helped me. Fast forward to almost 30 years, and nothing seems to have changed, and only at this historic moment seems that this persistence has been proven to be correct. Choices that were considered ordinary at the time were suddenly strung together, and uncertainties formed a deterministic result.

Every generation has its own challenges and destinies. Our generation, once thought that they were working hardest, now it seems that they have caught up with the era of rapid development. Today's young people are different, and the country is in the best period in history. For young people, the opportunities and challenges given by the times coexist.

We are in the midst of times at the same time, and we are all ordinary people. Even if you are born poor, from a remote town or a rural area, if you are strong enough and have perseverance, you will have the opportunity to be a tide maker in the tide of the times. There are also some small partners, even if they are not very strong, but they are not fragile, and they can withstand the blow and grow up silently, which is more likely to achieve their life goals.

Some small partners may feel that they are very ordinary, I think we must have confidence, a good era, will let every ordinary person enjoy their own ordinary, let every strivers enjoy the harvest of their own struggle.

The tide of the times can always cross one mountain after another, and so is the fate of individuals. The flow of water must be the first to rely on the endless; even if we are ordinary, as long as we do not end up, we will continue to move forward with the tide of the times.

Looking at next year and many years ahead at the end of the year, we can believe that by persevering in the face of every seemingly ordinary choice, we can eventually be a part of this great era.

Source / Xinhua News Agency client

Original title / Once wanted to resign because the salary was too low, Zhang Wenhong encouraged young people: We can all become part of this great era after all