It's another year of reading day, so what's the use of reading with you today? First of all, I will tell you a story, in a mountain, lived a farmer and his little grandson. Every morning, Grandpa would get up early and sit on his desk and read a book. One day, the grandson asked, "Grandpa, I want to read like you, but I can't read." Every time I close the book, I forget everything, just the so-called opening of the book, at a glance, closing the book with a blank face. I wonder what's the use of reading so many books before? ”
The old man pointed to the basket in the corner and said, "This basket is for coal, you take it to the river, help me bring a basket of water back." So the little grandson did as grandpa said, but the water in the basket leaked out long before he came back.
"You'll have to run faster next time." The old farmer smiled and once again took the little grandson to the river. This time the boy ran fast, but the water still leaked before he returned. After trying many times, the boy finally said, "Grandpa, the basket can't hold water, it's useless!" ”
Grandpa smiled and said, "You think it's useless, but look at the basket again." "The boy turned his head to look at the basket, and he found that the coal basket, which had been broken and dirty, had become very clean from the inside out."
The same is true of our reading.
Books are the river, and our hearts are the basket full of coal. Every time we use the basket to catch water, we can't catch anything, but the basket will get cleaner and cleaner. The more books we read, the more difficult it is to remember them all, but our minds will slowly become pure, and we will know how to use our brains when we think about problems.
What is the use of reading? When you grow up, you will forget. Like eating, the meals we ate as children will be forgotten, but those nutrients have dissolved into our bones and blood as adults. Perhaps the same is true of reading, it is an indispensable spiritual food for a person's spiritual growth, and reading can meet a better self! Many of the roads traveled, the people I have seen, and the books I have read over the years have not been remembered clearly, and they have become smoke and clouds. But their nutrients are preserved, in our temperament, in our conversation, in the bits and pieces of life and words.
Reading is to make you a person with temperature, understanding of fun, and thinking, in order to let you have a heart that does not change in the ups and downs of life.
Reading, in order to be able to talk to your lover in the future, not only to discuss chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, but also to talk about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and hops, even the most exquisite vase has a broken day, no matter how beautiful the face has an old day, only the books you have read and written will gradually accumulate in your body and become your wealth.
Read more books, you will find that the world that you have never paid attention to before is so vivid, beyond the mobile phone screen, there are thousands of rivers and mountains; where the footsteps cannot be measured, the text can be; where the eyes cannot reach, the text can.
Broaden the breadth and breadth of the soul, and be able to have a heart that does not change in the ups and downs of life. Read more books, and you will find that in the face of the endless ocean of knowledge, no matter how big the troubles are, they are only a drop in the ocean.
Those things that cannot be understood, the truths that cannot be understood, the dilemmas that cannot be walked out, and all the problems encountered in life will have answers in the book.
Perhaps, people are born confused; but reading books will certainly help us to break through the fog in front of us and find our own way. Read books so that you don't meet people I don't want to meet. Reading is to become a person with temperature, interest and thinking.
Books are not only a refuge for life, but also a treasure chest for life.
A five-foot body, in just a few decades, can actually gallop ancient and modern, through the heavens and the earth, at least half of this miracle is due to reading.
How to be a tall person? To read. General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "Leading cadres at all levels should deeply understand the close relationship between modern leadership activities and reading and learning, deeply understand that the reading and learning level of leading cadres determines the level of work and leadership to a large extent, truly regard reading and learning as an attitude of life, a work responsibility, and a spiritual pursuit, consciously love to read and read well, and actively promote the construction of a learning party and a learning society." ”
How to be a newcomer? To read. Entering the era of fog cards of "Internet +", you can't read dead books and dead books. First, reading books should be a mixture of specializations, and second, thinking should be both internal and external. In the Poetry of Suiyuan, it is said: "Nibble on mulberry, and those who spit silk; bees pick flowers, and those who brew honey." This is instructive for how we can turn "what we learn" into "what we get." Reading thousands of books is not as good as walking thousands of miles, walking thousands of miles is not as good as reading countless people, reading countless people is not as good as guiding the way, this high person is thinking. As the saying goes, "politics is like agricultural work, thinking day and night", only through the interrogation and thinking like a thorough discussion, such as grinding, can we always see the clouds in the epiphany, internalize these spiritual nourishments into the bones of their own thoughts, and then construct and master their own methodology. Third, the application should be solemn and harmonious. Since we are against dead reading, of course we should also oppose dead use. The so-called "going into the mountains to ask the tree, going into the water to ask for fish", we must vigorously refrain from prescribing medicine, preaching with a straight face, and try our best to be able to be harmonious and elegant according to the times and circumstances. In short, "everything is insightful and learned, and human feelings are articles", as long as students are willing to study and understand with their hearts, there will always be gains.
Read well, there is no book in life, every page counts.
Author: Zhang Yunyong (Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Yunnan Unicom)
Drawing: Cui Shuyin
Editor: Xue Jing
Review: Jiajia Zhou