If you don't have a dream, what is the difference between that and salted fish?
At the beginning of this article, Xiao Shuai quoted a line that Stephen Chow once said in the movie "Kung Fu". If a person lives without a dream, then he is like a salted fish with no value. And the story we tell today is a story that changes the fate through knowledge because we want to realize our dreams. Today, Xiao Shuai shares with you the story of the high-scoring inspirational drama film "The Boy Who Rides the Wind" adapted from real events.
<h1>First, the background of the story of "The Boy Who Rides the Wind"</h1>
The Republic of Malawi is a country in southeastern Africa that is lowly productive and heavily dependent on international relief. In this country, the vast majority of the labor force makes a living by growing tobacco, coffee beans, tea and other products. Because it depends on the sky and the earth to eat, once Malawi encounters a serious famine year and a serious famine, the people will rely heavily on international relief. However, the food distributed by the government is simply not enough for so many people to eat, so the people still face a serious hunger phenomenon.
The story we are telling today, "The Boy Who Rides the Wind", is the story of William, a young boy in the country of Malawi, who used knowledge to realize his dreams and change his destiny. William is a teenage boy who attends elementary school in town. On this day, every year, the boss of the town who buys tobacco and coffee beans will go to the countryside to sign a contract with the villagers to set the price for this year. This year, due to the upcoming dry weather, the boss decided to buy in advance and reduced the price, at first everyone was not satisfied with the price, and then because they were forced to accept it.
In that poor country, poor town, and poor village, being able to get a few thousand yuan a year to sell grain is the most important survival guarantee for local villagers. And in these thousands of yuan, a large part must be taken out for children to read. A family like William's, a family of four, Dad, Mom, sister and him, William's tuition for elementary school can't afford to pay. For people with that level of poverty, it's good to be able to struggle on the subsistence line.
William's family ate corn-ground semolina and dough, almost all of them. In this kind of life, people may not even be able to take care of their health. The only bicycle in William's family is his father's beloved, who rides a brand-new bicycle to work in the field every day, and it also says "Made in China".
It was in such poor and impoverished living conditions that Malawi, the country of Wilhelm, ushered in the most difficult famine years.
<h1>Second, the struggle in the life of famine gave birth to the innocent dreams of teenagers</h1>
At the beginning of the famine, many villagers cut down many large trees in front of the village and sold them to the town company in order to earn money. But what they don't know is that without these trees, they will lose the mudslides that can withstand the torrential rains, which could bring even greater disaster to the entire village.
Soon, bad luck came.
After several days and nights of torrential rain, the trees in front of the village disappeared, and the river broke its banks. The land of the village was completely flooded. The land is planted with coffee beans and tobacco, on which the villagers depend, and without these things, the villagers will be destitute.
When the rainstorm ended, the village ushered in a long famine. The land cracked and crops could not grow. William's father did not believe that crops could not grow, and he went to the field every day to turn the ground with a hoe, hoping that one day the crops would suddenly sprout green shoots.
And William saw all this in his eyes. Although he was refused to attend classes because he could not afford the tuition, he was fortunate to have the help of his sister's boyfriend, a young volunteer teacher. He saw that the light bulb in front of the teacher's car could generate electricity by turning the wheel, and after some thought, he went to the library to teach himself a lot of books for senior students and learned about the principle of magnetic power generation.
In the process, his knowledge is already quietly changing his destiny.
He first found discarded pumps and wires in the garbage heaps shipped from the city, which made him think of the possibility of pumping water. So a simple and naïve dream planted seeds in his heart, and he began to look for a generator that could drive the pump. In fact, from the moment he first saw that the wheel could drive a light bulb to generate electricity, his life had begun to change. The first steps of his dream had already begun.
Secretly going to school to eavesdrop on the teacher's science class was ruthlessly driven out by the teacher, sneaked into the library and was found by the teacher and rejected, and finally he got the teacher's approval through his hard work.
A person who works hard for his dreams will shine.
In this way, his dream of building a windmill has been known to almost all the teachers in the school, and the teachers respect his efforts, and every time he goes to the library, the teachers will smile at him and cheer him up. Although it is a very dilapidated library with only a few dozen books, it carries the dreams and efforts of teenagers growing up. Driven by curiosity and a desire for freedom, he eventually learned the theory of magnetic power generation.
<h1>Third, the gap between dreams and reality is always so unsatisfactory</h1>
Although the theoretical knowledge was learned, there was also a basic method of making windmill-driven water pumps. But the first problem in making this windmill was to get Dad's bicycle wheels. The link between the windmill and the pump is connected by wheels, which drives the pump to generate electricity. This was very difficult for William. He took the radio driven by a small windmill to his father's farmland and told him that he had successfully used the wind to send electricity.
It seems like an iron rule for every boy to get his father's approval from an early age. The same was true for William. His action was not approved by his father, but made his father particularly disgusted. Dad ordered him to come to the ground the next day and plough the ground with him. William looked at his stubborn father, at the barren land without a glimmer of hope, and he understood that all he had done was in vain. But for Dad, he believed that God would give him a glimmer of hope and would take care of his efforts.
Unfortunately, sometimes, direction is more important than effort.
Even if Dad turns the ground like this for a month, he may not be able to see a young shoot. Even if you can find a young shoot, you will not live long. Objective facts are there, dry land, hot sun, will not give crops a glimmer of hope and opportunity to grow. What William had to do was to find the right direction and get rid of the futility, but it was not recognized.
At this time, we understand that it is useless for people who understand knowledge to talk about no amount of great truths in front of people who do not understand knowledge. Perhaps they should be vulgar people all their lives, relying on the sky to eat and make a living on the ground; or perhaps people who understand knowledge only understand knowledge, but do not learn how to deal with communication with people who do not understand knowledge, which creates difficulties in communication.
<h1>Fourth, the teenager finally realizes his dream, and knowledge changes his destiny</h1>
Later, William and a few friends went to find his father to forcibly dismantle the bicycle, and his father brandished a hoe to guard his last dignity as a father. William gave up, and his father was still stubbornly overwhelmed. Because of the famine, the family did not have enough food, so she eloped with the young teacher and left the house, leaving the last sentence "I am gone, there will be one less person in the family to eat." The bitterness of this sentence is heart-wrenching.
Her mother was the village flower of the village, and when she was young, she lived with her father to her current age. After her sister left, her mother finally couldn't hold back the pain in her heart, and she cried and cried to her father, "How much more do we have to lose, and you are willing to give up?" "Yes, in all the years that couples have survived, they have been losing. They lost their land, had their family's food robbed during a famine, and now their sister has left the house.
As a father, but he has not been able to support this family, and he has been losing it, it is indeed a bit unreasonable. The father's stubbornness has not brought wealth and good luck to the family, but is constantly stubbornly losing. At this time, my father suddenly realized that he had been doing something wrong. He recognizes that his stubbornness is sometimes irrational behavior.
He began to believe William.
He dismantled the bike and let William use it to drive the windmill. William set up a huge windmill next to a well at the head of the village. He confidently climbed to the top of the windmill ladder and watched as the windmill began to spin with the wind. Immediately after, a clear spring flowed out of the pump and into the farmland. William smiled happily, and his dream was finally realized. Dad also smiled happily, he not only saw an excellent son, but also saw the hope of the young shoots.
Dad hugged William into his arms, and endless guilt, self-blame and regret all melted into William and Dad's embrace. Father and son looked at each other happily, witnessing the fact that on god's late days, William relied on his knowledge to realize his dreams and change the fate of the villagers. In the end, William also received local funding and was given the opportunity to go to a promotion to study.
All this seems to be a legendary story.
But it's actually a true story that happened in Malawi.
Knowledge changes destiny, this sentence is very common to us. But after watching the story of "The Boy Who Rides the Wind", we really understand. Knowledge is really very useful, knowledge can broaden our horizons, give us basic cultural confidence and confidence, let us not bow our heads like difficulties at the trough of life, and let us stay awake at the peak of life. In this film, knowledge not only gave William the courage to realize his dreams, but also helped him save the lives of the entire village and change his own destiny.
No matter what stage you are at this moment, at what stage of life you are on the road, you must remember a word. To have a dream, to work hard enough, to learn more knowledge. Learn more knowledge, maybe you have to take various exams, participate in various interviews, I believe that as long as you have enough knowledge, turn knowledge into power, it will bring you profound and eye-catching changes.
Instead of complaining about others, it is better to learn more knowledge from this moment.
Knowledge changes destiny and requires your execution.
May every one of you be like the boy who rides the wind, with brave and fearless motivation, moving towards your dreams!