Author | Luo Facai
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If there is an existing novel, the plot is as follows:
The big heroine is born to be a winner, her parents are famous schools, she has sports talent since childhood, and she can ski 60 days a year and win dozens of championships.
In addition to skiing, she also likes to study, nearly full marks in the college entrance examination to enter a prestigious school, and is also interested in quantum physics in the future.
In his hobbies, he plays basketball well, rides horses, plays the piano, and sleeps 12 hours a day, but the efficiency of waking time is many times that of ordinary people.
There is also a talent for language, American English and Beijing accent switch at will, famous descendants have received soft words, and all kinds of international fashion brands love her...
To do all this, she was only 18.
If anyone writes such a book, it is estimated that readers will hang up on the Internet and ridicule it - the author's gold finger is too big, and the Mary Sue's is not close to reality at all... And so on.
But this happened to Gu Ailing.
After the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's big jump won the championship, Weibo top 10 hot searches, 9 of which were her.
Her upbringing like a hanging has made countless people feel that fate has spoiled her too much when pinching the clay people.
Someone said, "It's always said that if God closes a door for you, he will open a window, and I want to ask, which window did God close for Gu Ailing????"
Yeah, I want to ask too...
Probably the only thing that closes is the window of becoming an ordinary person????
How incredible is Gu Ailing?
In the early hours of the morning a few hours before the gold grab, she did not even sleep, surfing happily on social networking sites, and fighting with the keyboard warrior netizens who smeared China.
Some people say that Chinese netizens are violent figure skaters, and Gu Ailing responded fiercely: "In China, I see that 90% of the comments are friendly."
After doing all this in the early morning, during the day she stood on the field that was originally her weakest, and the third jump broke through the limit, and even she did not practice this action much, which was the first time she did it on the slope.
And this freestyle ski women's big jumping event, or her most vulnerable winter Olympic registration, only trained for one year.
Even this time, the costume was designed by herself.
As the sky swept past, the wind blew open her number plate, and the golden dragon shone in the sun.
This kind of talent, this kind of power, makes people only look up, but it is also as if it is illuminated, deeply inspired, full of energy.
When the homepage is all video photos of Gu Ailing skiing, this talented and beautiful girl pushed skiing to the climax of the national grass planting, in fact, we can see more things.
For example, the sense of self-confidence that comes with strong thinking.
Before the Winter Olympics, some people were worried, saying not to kill Gu Ailing and lower their expectations.
Gu Ailing replied jokingly directly at the bottom: Is there such a lack of confidence in me?
We all saw the results later.
But what moved me more than the results was the strong self-confidence itself.
Chinese advocate low-key behavior, and even some advocate doing things to be low-key, to be humble, not to speak too fullly, not to be too confident, otherwise it is easy to be eaten back.
This is especially evident in girls, who are educated from an early age to be humble, low-key, and courteous.
This quality is not bad, but the Internet is more and more tolerant of a high-profile person, even if your results are good, as long as you are "crazy", and then if you lose, you will usher in a terrifying "Internet storm".
But should life be like this?
Be sure that every child must put on a humble posture when saying their goals, saying that it is good to do their best? Can't say, "I think I'm going to win," "I have confidence in myself"?
Can't we have self-confidence? Even with our talents, can't we show and show off?
Gu Ailing does not eat this set, in her strong thinking, what she wants to challenge, confidence in her own strength is confidence.
Even if you make a mistake, get up and start over, what "killing" and "punching the face" are invented by netizens themselves.
"All I have to do is challenge myself to be free from any gossip in the life I love."
She told all people with low self-esteem: before doing something, don't think about bad results, don't be afraid of what will happen if you fail, and self-confidence can create a strong person.
Don't twist and pretend, don't hide ambition, can do fashion icons, designers, endorsements at the same time, I can arrange everything with the permission of strength, pick up the double board I am the champion of the snow field, the adult world I want all.
I really love this unabashed strength.
In Gu Ailing's dictionary, there is nothing women should do, but women can do more.
She has had this awareness for a long time, which is inseparable from the exemplary power of strong women's mothers.
At the beginning of her ski training, facing more racing for girls and free skating grounds that were almost all men, she didn't hesitate to choose the latter, which she thought was cool.
She was the only girl on the team, and she was even ostracized, but later, her results were better than anyone else's, and she exchanged her efforts for respect.
She told everyone that sports belonged to girls too.
Chinese female footballer Li Jiayue also said something similar: "I never thought of becoming a man to play football."
"I was originally a daughter, and I don't look like a man beyond a man."
These girls tell us that bravery, strength, determination... These qualities have never belonged exclusively to men, and neither have women.
She also advocated that girls should not pursue so-called beauty, but health.
What Gu Ailing brings us is a kind of strength, not just envy for his life.
Gu Ailing's mother has an impressive sentence: "More affirmation of the child's process, rather than the result of the senior year of praise."
In her education, the results of the exams are not the most important, what is important is the process of mastering knowledge.
For Gu Ailing, the power of love is greater than any external factor.
Keep learning, find the ideal, and get happiness by realizing the ideal.
It is precisely because of this concept that Gu Ailing maintains strong self-discipline and internal driving force.
She knows that her hard work and efforts are for the skiing she loves, she is trying to challenge herself, not for her parents to get medals, not to get extra points to go to a good university...
I have always felt that all the confusion and wandering in life come from something we lack love.
In today's national inner volume, no one tells us what such efforts are rolling, in addition to making money to buy a house, do you have something you really love and fight for it?
Gu Ailing's life is indeed irreproducible, but you have to admit that what is more rare than the emergence of a genius is that this genius has not gone crooked every step.
If you just see that she was born at the top of the pyramid and ignore her long-standing self-discipline, it is really regrettable.
She appears in the eyes of all of us, not just to be looked up to, but to bring a whole new way of seeing the world.
Although she is 18 years old, we may be 28 or 38 years old, but it is never too late to wake up.
The children of our generation finally do not have to bear the so-called honor and disgrace of their parents, and can soar freely.
Girls of our generation can now begin to realize that instead of having body anxiety and valuing health more, men can do it themselves, even better.
We can realize that the power of love is much more effective than the money drive, the suffering drive.
We can't do Gu Ailing, but we will all be better ourselves.
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