The Beijing Winter Olympics have just come to an end, and the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games are in full swing. The children also watched the opening ceremony and have been keeping a close eye on the schedule lately.
I stumbled upon a comment that someone said, "Normal people, who wants to watch a disability game?" My heart clattered.
Isn't the Winter Paralympic Games exciting?
The challenge of normal people is to challenge the limits of human beings.
The challenge of people with disabilities is to challenge the limits of destiny.
Whether the disability comes from congenitality or later, natural disasters or man-made disasters, these real lives fight against shortcomings, limitations, and illnesses to fight out the "infinite power in the limited". Choking the throat of fate, this power is admirable, uplifting, not only adults, but even children who have never seen a disabled game can tear up their eyes.
The Paralympic Games are wonderful, and it has a different style, and it is a rare educational blockbuster to watch with children.
Today, I will take stock with you, and the wonderful moments I have seen at the Winter Paralympic Games recently ----
Challenge the impossible, light up the "light" with "darkness"
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games on March 4 is not only wonderful, but also a blooming art. The children said that the most impressive thing was the scene of the lighting of the main torch.
Unlike the previous Winter Paralympic Ignition Ceremony, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games innovatively and boldly selected a visually impaired athlete as the last main torchbearer.
He is the blind athlete Li Duan. Li Duan was once an excellent basketball player and a teammate of Wang Zhizhi. One day in 1996, while cleaning a mobile fire extinguisher, it suddenly exploded, and debris hit Li Duan's head, causing him to fall into a coma for several days, and when he woke up, he could no longer see it.
However, such a blow did not make Li Duan give up on himself, he learned Braille, turned to athletics, became an excellent blind track and field athlete, and won 4 Olympic gold medals.
In order to be a good torchbearer, Li Duan did not know how many times he had rehearsed. But the task was challenging for him, who was blind in both eyes.
At the opening ceremony, Li Duan's last torch naughtily made a little joke with him, for half a minute, all the sight-healthy people looked at the torch platform under his hand, but he could not "see", could only rely on groping...
When he went through several twists and turns, shaking his hands, and finally embedding the torch into the main torch platform formed by thousands of snowflakes, the audience cheered for him. This real "mistake" made netizens break the defense - "He lit not only the torch, but also the light in our night sky!" The Olympic spirit is nothing more than that. ”
This light lit by the visually impaired gives us a new definition of light.
Sweat is poured successfully, and the process is more valuable than the gold medal
In the men's biathlon men's sitting event on March 5, China's Liu Zixu won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in 18 minutes 51.5 seconds with a time of 18 minutes and 51 seconds, and the first gold medal in snow sports in the history of the Chinese Winter Paralympic Games.
A childhood car accident took Liu Zixu's left leg and cast a dark shadow on his life, and the invitation of the Shaanxi Disabled Archery Team in 2013 changed his life. The father hoped that the sports spirit could help his son get back on his feet, and Liu Zixu began his sports career.
Liu Zixu's biathlon competition includes cross-country skiing and shooting, and the players have to complete cross-country skiing from 6-15Km, during which they also have to hit a shooting target 10m away. This places high demands on physical endurance and shooting accuracy.
In the 5 years of closed training in preparation for the Olympic Games, Liu Zixu not only completed rigorous training, but also often added weight to himself, always resting when his body was tired to the limit. The fatigue and pain in training he mentioned from others, and his parents also looked at his teammates' circle of friends to know that he was injured.
He did not flinch, and under the watering of sweat, Liu Zixu's achievements climbed steadily. After winning the gold medal, he only said plainly: "I played my own level, concentrated on the game, and didn't think too much about anything else." ”
On Liu Zixu's Olympic road, the process of hard work seems to be more precious than the result. And all people who are more sound than him can understand ---- focus, hard work, hard work, and tenacity are the core strength for all human beings to move forward.
In the plight of the body, optimistic flowers can also blossom
"We promise to respect and abide by the rules, and participate in the Winter Paralympic Games in a fair, inclusive and equal spirit..." At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, a beautiful little girl stood at the oath and read the oath on behalf of the participating athletes, she was Zhang Mengqiu.
Zhang Mengqiu suffered from pediatric cerebral palsy, resulting in a certain motor dysfunction in her body, and her reaction speed was slightly slower than others. The essentials of the action explained by the coach can be learned by others in 1 hour, but she needs 2-3 hours to digest. However, she just has a strength not to accept defeat, training 6 days a week, skating 6 hours a day, she repeatedly polished her technical movements, racing against the clock to continue to improve.
Three games, two gold and one silver, Zhang Mengqiu on the day of the Goddess Festival for the third time on the podium, compared with the previous two awards when the "twist braid" and "love braid", the goddess day Zhang Mengqiu changed a new shape - around the head 1 big braid, there are 6 small braids.
The innate lack of regret did not take away her pursuit of perfection, she smiled and said, "Before taking the cute route, this time I want to have a cool hairstyle!" "This sweet-smiling, optimistic and cheerful little girl is like the sun after the rain, so clear, warm, bright, she is Venus, she is the goddess.
In the gray and dark, the heart is towards the sun
Liang Jingyi's gray and dark life began from the day he was born. Due to the weight of up to 12 kilograms at birth, the conditions in the village were limited, and the midwife grabbed the baby's arm and tried her best to pull Jing Yi out, causing the nerve in his left arm to break.
Image from China News Network
Due to the disability of his left arm, Liang Jingyi's childhood was gray, because he could not stand the ridicule of his friends, and he did not wear short-sleeved shorts even in the heat of three volts. But the optimistic mother has been guiding Liang Jingyi, and Liang Jingyi's mother is not in good health due to heavy bleeding during childbirth, and she also suffers from diabetes. In order to bring optimism and hope to Liang Jingyi, she initiated the establishment of the Gaoyang Office of the Baoding Heart-to-Heart Charity Association to carry out various public welfare activities such as helping the elderly, helping the disabled, and saving orphans.
His mother's positive energy deeply infected Jing Yi, who walked out of the enclosure and stood on the ski high platform.
Skiing is a dangerous sport, and it is easy for people with physical disabilities to fall down with unstable center of gravity, but Jing Yi will stand up tenaciously after each fall. Even if you crawl with a rolling belt, even if you are injured.
2018 National Champion, 2019 Winner Again, 2021 Asian Champion, liang Jingyi won the gold medal again in the men's Super Slalom - Standing Posture Competition at this year's Winter Paralympic Games.
Jing Yi's biggest wish after the game was to give financial financing to her mother: "Because she has always supported me behind my back, no matter what I do." ”
Breaking through the darkness and breaking the cocoon into a butterfly, Liang Jingyi touches us and also brings us the courage and strength to still be bright in the face of setbacks.
Behind the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, there are many touching and exciting stories, and the athletes on the field also always show the sportsmanship of breaking through the limits and surpassing themselves.
Compared with the Olympic Games, the hard work, self-improvement and gratitude contained in the Paralympic Games make it more like a rich mine from which we can draw rich spiritual nourishment.
Take the children and the whole family, look at the gifts of life, and see how those athletes who "got the imperfect card" changed their lives against the sky and became the best of themselves.
Although we seem to be "sound", our life time is limited, resources are limited, and our ability is limited, and our "spiritual scarcity" is more depressing than physical difficulties. But looking at the inner tenacity of these "external disabilities", glittering for themselves, for the country, for the movement, can help us find inner strength in the moment of anxiety, harshness, and excessive stress! Don't compete with others, only compete with yourself.
Small advice
I hope that everyone will remember the names of these Winter Paralympic athletes, and hope that business institutions and the world can "see" these sparkling people. In the dust of fate, they blossom the most beautiful flowers, and the value of blooming should also be recognized by more employment security, group support, and business affirmation in addition to praising and celebrating gold medals.
Well, take your children to the Winter Paralympic Games, at least, tell these stories, and help your children plant this little seed