In distant Africa, there is a rural village called Douz.
The average temperature here is as high as 42 degrees Celsius, and the sun is blazing at all times of the year, except for a brief period of rain in autumn.
In such a harsh environment, most animals cannot survive.
There is one fish that makes an exception, and that is the barramundi.
Not only can barramundi survive long periods of lack of water and food, but they can also wait for the rainy season to regain new life.
How does it do that?
It turns out that whenever the dry season comes, the barramundi digs a hole at the bottom of the riverbed and buries itself in it, leaving only a small hole to breathe.
Subsequently, it endures constant drought of the soil for up to a whole year.
In the process, it cannot eat or move, but can only lie dormant and wait for the rainy season to come.
When autumn finally comes, it will wake up from its deep dormancy and desperately inhale the water vapor from the mud into its lung sac.
Eventually, the surrounding soil softens and the barramundi comes back to life, crawling out of the burrow and reborn.
In the face of the difficulties of survival, lungfish do not wait for death in agony like ordinary animals.
Instead, it will endure until fate takes a turn.
In fact, each of us will suffer from the difficult dry season like a barramundi in our lifetime.
Sometimes it's the pressure of life, sometimes it's the frustration of work, sometimes it's the financial woes, sometimes it's the frustration of feelings......
There are moments in life that are extremely difficult.
But the more difficult the stage, the more you can't disarm and surrender, and the more you have to rely on yourself to get through.
As the writer Ibei said:
"In life, bitterness is inevitable, the important thing is that you have to turn it over.
Because of the dark wall, there is always a blue sky on the opposite side. ”
In the past few years, I have often felt that I have not had an easy time.
In the first two years, when the house price was the highest, I bought a house, and now it has fallen by nearly one million, but I still have to pay the high mortgage every month;
The child is in a critical period of learning, and it takes a lot of money to invest in his education every year;
The elderly in the family are not in good health, and they have to go to the hospital every three or five days, and I often run at both ends of the company hospital.
In order to have an easier life in the future, I can only work overtime.
Sometimes just after returning home, a customer calls over, and immediately turns on the computer and stays up late to change the plan.
Two days ago, I looked in the mirror in the middle of the night and found that I was less than forty years old, and I had grown a lot of gray hair.
Just when I was lamenting that life was difficult, I inadvertently turned my eyes out the window and found that at two o'clock in the morning, there were still people busy running takeout on the streets.
At that moment, I finally understood:
In this world, everyone has a piece of paper, chapters and chapters, full of their bitterness and helplessness.
Sometimes we also think that the storms of life are only tilted towards us.
But in fact, who has an easier life than whom?
Many years ago, Dou Wentao was arranged by the TV station to host a program called "Wentao Shooting".
Dou Wentao was very resistant from the beginning.
Because it is very different from his previous hosting style, and the content is full of controversy, and there is not even the participation of guests.
But in order to survive, Dou Wentao still made this show for 8 years.
In the past eight years, in order to meet the requirements of the TV station, he often had to record a program many times.
Every time he recorded, he felt exhausted and almost on the verge of collapse.
One day, it was already 6 o'clock in the morning after finishing the show, and the sky outside the window suddenly began to rain heavily.
At that moment, four words suddenly appeared in Dou Wentao's mind - there is no love in life.
But he had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept it.
In this world, there are few ordinary lives, and unsatisfactory is the cruel reality.
No matter how glamorous the surface is, there is also an unknown bitterness behind it.
The intern who clocks in on time every day may not be able to make ends meet with his monthly salary;
The man with the briefcase in his hand needed to pause in the car for a short time before going home to silently digest the fatigue of the day;
The white-collar girl who stepped on high heels to work would hide in the bathroom and sobbed silently because of the pressure of the workplace......
It is said that life is like a meandering river, full of twists and turns and tribulations.
Behind every hurried figure, there is endless pain and endless sorrow.
In the face of the weight of life, everyone is moving forward with a heavy load, and no one is immune.
The writer Chamberlain said:
"People cannot reach dawn except by the road through the night."
Only after those dark moments will there be sunshine shining on your way.
And once you choose to give up halfway, there may be a desperate situation ahead.
I remember that I once had a friend who graduated from 985 college and won many awards along the way.
Unexpectedly, when he was not yet 30 years old, he chose to say goodbye to this world with a hemp rope.
It turned out that just after he graduated, he suffered many setbacks in his life.
Friends who graduated from the same college got along one by one, but he repeatedly changed jobs and couldn't be reused.
At the same time, his girlfriend, who has been in love for many years, also chose to leave him.
Before he died, he once handed over his resume to a favorite company, but he never heard from him.
Disheartened, he chose to leave this world in an extreme way.
But what he didn't expect was that the day after he left, he received an offer from that company in his mailbox.
Unfortunately, he didn't wait for dawn.
At that time, if he could hold on a little longer, his fate would have been a completely different ending.
Perhaps, every adult has had the idea of retreating when he has been scarred by fate.
It's just that some people choose to give up before dawn.
Some people gritted their teeth and persevered, and they were caught step by step until the dawn came.
When Guo Degang first broke into Beijing, he lived in the cheapest house and ate the cheapest green onions.
He didn't dare to go out during the day, because the landlord would scold him, so he could only quietly go out over the wall in the middle of the night to get something to eat.
Even when he had a high fever, he had to sell his BB machine so that he could buy some medicine.
In the most difficult times, he often thought:
"If you can crash into a car accident, you will be happy."
But after changing his mind, he still carried it and survived.
In the following days, while enduring a life of poverty, he insisted on talking cross talk.
In this way, Guo Degang's name slowly became famous throughout the country, and the suffering of the past has become a cloud of the past.
Sometimes the difference between people lies in the ability to endure suffering.
If you can't hold on, your life will stop there.
Hold on, and you'll find that suffering is just another synonym for grinding.
Borges said:
"Life is miserable, and I set off again with my broken oars."
Although life is full of ups and downs and misfortunes, as long as you can grit your teeth and persevere, you will find:
It turned out that the hurdle that could not be passed has long been light and light.
There is no so-called skill in life, only hard work can reach the other side.
Moderator Martin once said:
"Every powerful person has gritted his teeth and spent a period of time when no one helped, no one supported, and no one asked for warmth."
Those who stand at the pinnacle of life have all gone through hardships and climbed up step by step from setbacks.
Wu Baifu, the "father of instant noodles", has encountered ups and downs in his life.
He lost his parents when he was a child, went bankrupt, went to prison, and almost didn't survive several times.
As an adult, he got involved in the knitwear business.
Just when his career was booming, the air raids of World War II reduced his factory to ruins.
Unwilling to fail, he turned to run a department store.
But fate seems to be particularly cruel to him, due to lack of funds and business mistakes, he went bankrupt again and became a poor man.
More than 20 years of ups and downs have not made him give up hope.
He reinvigorated himself and was determined to invent a portable, easy-to-brew pasta.
He built a humble hut in his backyard and rested only four hours a day to devote himself to the study of noodles.
During those days, it was simply miserable.
After countless experiments, he gradually solved the problems of noodle preservation, brewing, and related ingredients.
Finally, it took him a year to develop instant noodles, and his life ushered in a new turnaround.
Xi Murong said:
"Setbacks will come and they will pass, tears will fall and they will be put away.
Nothing can discourage me, because I have a long life. ”
In this cruel world, it is not easy to survive in peace.
But instead of falling into the quagmire of pain, it is better to transform the bitterness and frustration in your heart into an inexhaustible motivation to move forward.
We must believe that the end of all the bitterness will be a beautiful prospect like flowing clouds.
Stay up, stay alive, keep going.
All the encounters along the way will become unique scenery in your life.
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The writer Yangshuo once said:
"As a human being, if you don't have a battle with life, you can't really understand the meaning of life."
Life right now, for many people, may be really difficult.
However, people always have to be in prison in order to grow; You have to fall into a trough before you can be reborn.
In this process, you just need to grit your teeth, walk another way, and hold on for a while.
When you turn loss into tenacity, and pain into growth, you will eventually meet the life you want.
Source: One book per night