#"Flashing Moments" Theme Essay + Issue II #
When adults educate their children, they usually say that you have to have ambitions and ambitions in order for you to achieve your ideals. This ambition is the English word ambition, which also means "ambition" in English.
Baraão was a young French media tycoon who made his fortune selling decorative portraits. In less than a decade, he was ranked among the top 50 richest people in France, and unfortunately: he died of prostate cancer in 1998 at the Bobigny Hospital in France. Before his death, he left a will: 1) donated 460 million francs of shares to the Bobigny Hospital for research on prostate cancer, and 2) awarded another one million francs to those who uncovered the mystery of poverty.
The French newspaper Corsican published his will after His death. He wrote in his will: "I was once a poor man, but I entered heaven as a rich man." I didn't want to take my secret of being rich before I stepped into the gates of heaven, and now I'm locking this secret in one of my personal safes at the central bank. I put the three keys to the safe in the hands of my lawyer and two agents. If anyone can guess the mystery of "what the poor lack most", they will be congratulated by me. Of course, I could no longer reach out my hands from the tomb to applaud his ingenuity, but the 1 million francs in my safe would go to him.
There was all sort of speculation and speculation about the matter, with some believing that Baraang might be crazy and even suspecting that the newspaper was hyping itself up for its own increased circulation. Nevertheless, there are still many people who want to try their luck, and after all, those who guess the mystery will get 1 million francs!
So a large number of letters were sent to the Corsican newspaper, and most people thought: Isn't the poor short of money? This is the self-evident source of poverty; The answers are endless and varied.
On the anniversary of Baraang's death, his lawyers and agents opened the safe under the supervision of the notary department. 48,561 letters were taken apart in public. A nine-year-old girl named Tiller guessed the answer.
This result was really shocking, and many adults with enough life experience were stunned and defeated at the feet of the little girl. The little girl easily said the answer with her naïve life experience: what the poor lacked most was ambition, which was strikingly consistent with the answer left by Baraang.
When asked by a reporter about the nine-year-old winner: How do you guess that the answer to the poverty of the poor is due to lack of ambition?
I don't want the little girl's answer to be so funny: Every time my sister brings home her 11-year-old boyfriend, she always warns me: Don't be ambitious! Don't be ambitious! I think ambition may be what you want most.
When a poor man is hungry to the point of being injured, he cannot lift the strength to see whether the moon in the sky is round or semi-circular, and if the pie in the sky falls at his feet at this time, he will pick it up without suspense and send it directly into his stomach, and then eat and sleep well to spend the night, and neither dreams nor reality will be entangled in ideals and ambitions.
Of course, people are different, the same situation, but some people will be in the cold winter night, in the broken house with four walls leaking wind, listening to the sound of the whistling wind, pillowing their arms, opening their eyes that can illuminate the night, dreaming of yellow sorghum, eating delicious food, thinking about a better future...
At this moment, he is being ignited by the flame of ideals in his heart, and is being stirred by the ambition that has sprouted in his heart, and he cannot sleep at night; perhaps, he will sit up from the bed with a carp, stride to the window, and look at the heavens and the earth with his glowing starry eyes: the black hands around him cannot see the five fingers, and the cold is compelling.
He warned himself: This is the darkness before the dawn, the light will come soon, the warm spring will come as scheduled, and I will be useful by nature! A new I have been born who loves the world, loves himself, and has no sense of inferiority!
If a person always wants to follow the steps, wait for luck to find the door, or even covet pleasure, do not seek progress, and do not have an upward desire and strength that rises from the heart to pursue the ideals he wants to pursue, then his ambitions or ambitions will never be realized.
Rockefeller was the world's premier oil tycoon and a well-known philanthropist. His net worth is as high as $400 billion. He believes that in this world, anyone can succeed and make a lot of money, but there are two kinds of people who can't jump into the ranks of the rich: those who only want to enjoy and don't want to pay, and there is also a kind of people who have no ideals and dare not take risks.
Rockefeller was born poor, when he was in middle school, he took a graduation photo with his classmates, and Rockefeller, who was wearing old clothes, happily looked forward to taking pictures, but was disliked, and the teachers and photographers at the time made a little trick, so that Rockefeller did not appear in the photo with his classmates. Poverty did not make him feel landless, nor did it limit his imagination and unremitting pursuit of the future. He wrote down this great shame in his heart, and secretly swore: I must get ahead, and it is nothing to take pictures; when I become the richest man in the world one day, my portrait will be painted by the most famous painter. He became the first billionaire in American history.
Rockefeller did not have a rich father, but instead his father was a charlatan who made a living selling counterfeit drugs. But Rockefeller did not complain about life, but with ambition, he worked hard to change the status quo. He learned early on to share his mother's worries and shoulder the burden of family responsibilities. At the age of 16, he spent six weeks, looking for work one by one, and finally found a position as a bookkeeper with a monthly salary of $17, which was a good salary at that time. He was ecstatic and assured himself that in the years to come he would set aside one-tenth of his fortune for charity. That's what he said and that's what he did. For example, Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the early years of China was built with donations from Rockefeller's family.
Rockefeller believed that the poor who were rhetorical, down-to-earth, unwilling to endure hardships, thrifty, ambitious, and without ideals, that is, ambitions, could not get rich.
A tree grows from a sapling into a towering tree, has experienced countless storms, and the reason why it has never fallen is because it has an ideal in mind: it will grow into a giant tree with a turquoise canopy, which will shield people from the wind and rain in winter; and silently hang green shade in summer to send shade to people.
A flower, from bud to bloom, has experienced the wind and rain and the sun, because she has a deep obsession in her heart: I want people to come close to me, to smell the fragrance emanating from my body, and say: What a fragrance! I want people to see my richest, most gorgeous look and say: How beautiful! People's heartfelt sighs emanate from their hearts, indicating that they are happy, and I am happy. Is that ambitious?
Everything in the world thrives because of its interdependence and competition with each other. Whether it is the poor or the rich, with a positive attitude and a righteous spirit, with good ideals, grand ambitions, good intentions, no fear of difficulties and obstacles, to pursue what they want in their hearts, then they will get better and better.