On the road to success, it will never be smooth sailing, overnight. Life is not satisfactory, it is often eight or nine, bumpy and bumpy, is the norm of life, adversity is difficult, is the necessity of growth. Only after experiencing hardships in life can we truly appreciate the true meaning of life, understand the value of life, and enjoy the joy of success.
In Mencius, "Mencius," Yun said: "The heavens will descend upon the Si people, and they will first suffer their minds, strain their bones and bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess up their deeds, so they will be tempted to endure and benefit what they cannot do." Man perseveres, and then he can change; he is trapped in the heart, weighed in the worry, and then he works; he signs the color, he speaks in the voice, and then he parables. If you enter, you can't go home, and if you go out, you can't be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will always die. Then Zhi was born in distress and died in comfort. ”
The harsh environment is fertile soil for nurturing trees. If a person is born in comfort, in pleasure, and only knows how to enjoy, he will make people lose their minds, do not think of making progress, and be willing to sink; if a person is born of sorrow, self-improvement, and regards suffering as a whetstone to sharpen his will, takes pleasure in suffering, and strives to be promising, suffering becomes a clarion call to inspire people to forge ahead, and hardship becomes a ladder to promote people's progress.
The Western Han Dynasty classicist Kuang Heng, emperor of the Han Dynasty, reigned supreme. Kuang Heng loved to read since he was a child, but his family was poor and could not afford to buy books, so he worked for people for short time during the busy agricultural season, did not want to pay for work, and only asked others to borrow books for him. At night, unable to afford candles, he saw that the candlelight of the neighbor's house came through the wall, so he chiseled a small hole in the wall and continued to read by the faint candlelight of the neighbor's house. This is where the idiom "chiseling the wall to steal the light" comes from.
Kuang Heng was diligent and studious, and his understanding of the Book of Poetry was particularly thorough, and he was the leader in the Study of the Book of Poetry in the Confucian circles at that time, but his career path was not smooth, and he took the examination nine times before he won the C Section and was supplemented as the literary history of Taiyuan County. After Emperor Yuan of Han ascended the throne, he appointed Kuang Heng as LangZhong, moved to doctor, and gave shizhong. During Kuang Heng's tenure, he often quoted the "Book of Poetry" as a basis for expounding his ideas, advising Emperor Yuan of Han to "reduce the degree of the palace room, the decoration of the province, the examination system, the cultivation of the inside and outside, the near loyalty and integrity, and the far qiaoyou", promote moral indoctrination, and carry forward the style of courtesy and benevolence. In the third year of Jianzhao, Kuang Heng was replaced by The Minister of Finance, the Marquis of Fengle An, and a very popular subject. Later generations commented on Kuang Heng: "Incomparably diligent, knowledgeable from ancient times to the present, excellent in scripture, outspoken and outspoken, upright, respected, listed as a generation of names by the Book of Han and passed down from generation to generation." ”
The Northern Song Dynasty philosopher Zhang Zai said in the "Western Ming": "Rich and noble, will be houwu's life; poor and poor, Yongyu Ru Yu Chengye." This means that wealth, fame, status, and divine blessings can improve people's quality of life and make people live comfortably and comfortably; poverty, sorrow, and hardship can temper people's will and help people achieve career success.
A person's true strength is not in material abundance, not in the superiority of the environment, but in the strength of the heart, in the face of hardships and hardships, still maintain indomitable determination and courage; in the midst of setbacks and failures, still adhere to consistent ideals and beliefs.
After the storm is the rainbow, after the crisis is the success. Many turning points in life are often obtained from crises, from hardships, and from perseverance.
When Master Nebula earnestly advised the world, he said: "Suffering is a necessary process for success, and if you want to achieve something, you must immerse yourself in hard work, work hard, read hard in the cold window, and study hard." Because suffering is the increasing edge of life, it is impossible to succeed without hard reading, without hard study, without hard practice, without hard grinding. ”
The sword blade came out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance came from the bitter cold. Without a cold bone, how can you get plum blossoms?
For everyone who adheres to the ideal: to bear hardship is to eat supplements, to eat bitterly, to be a superior person. All the remarkable successes in the world are not coincidences, but the result of perseverance and hard work in the face of hardships and hardships.
Sima Qian, the author of the "Chronicle of History", cited a large number of examples of ancient sages who, despite their difficulties, wrote books in anger: "King Wen detained and performed "Zhou Yi"; Zhongni'er wrote "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan's exile, Naifu "Leaving Sorrow"; Zuo Qiu was blind and had "Chinese"; Sun Tzu's foot was set on his feet, and the "Art of War" was revised; Bu Wei Qianshu, the hereditary "Lü Lan"; Han Fei imprisoned Qin, "Speaking difficulty" and "Lonely Anger"; and "Poems" three hundred pieces, most of which were written by Xiansheng's anger. ”
In life, there will always be all kinds of unpredictable twists and turns and ups and downs, and without experiencing all kinds of tribulations, how can you train a copper-skinned iron bone? If you don't pass many tests, where will you achieve fame in the future? The direction of the headwind is more suitable for flying, not afraid of ten thousand people blocking, only afraid of surrendering. When you are still a sparrow, the goal is to become a goshawk, fight in the sky, soar thousands of miles, work hard and forge ahead along such a goal, all the difficulties are just a kind of grinding, and even the biggest resistance will become a help.
To bear hardship is to make up for it, dare to bear hardship, be willing to bear hardship, self-improvement, persevere to the end, and will inevitably be bitter and willing to achieve a better life.
Author: Guan Gong Culture Peng Yunhao
--This article was published in Hong Kong Commercial Daily