What is "back"?
The Modern Chinese Dictionary tells us that "retreat" points backward and moves backwards, as opposed to "entering".
The river came out of Tongguan and did not retreat, so it was increased by the obstruction of Taihua; The wind came out of the Chongling Mountains, and did not retreat, so it showed its anger because of the separation of Wushan Mountain.
In the face of obstacles, individuals do not shrink back and grow; Only when a nation does not shrink back can it develop.
For individuals, not backing down is the premise of showing talent, pursuing dreams, and ultimately growing.
The poet Yu Xiuhua once wrote: "A body that can rise the moon must have carried countless sunsets."
In the face of his own "sunset" - congenital cerebral palsy, Yu Xiuhua did not flinch and carried all the suffering; In the face of external accusations and pressure, Yu Xiuhua did not back down, and eventually became a romantic poet we know.
The same is true of the Irish female writer Voynich, who flew like a bullfly in the sun and ran in the wind and rain, inspiring generation after generation.
From this point of view, innate inadequacies and the suffering of fate cannot be avoided, and only by embracing suffering in spirit and action without escaping from suffering, and forging ahead without timidly retreating, can we uphold the meaning of life.
China has stood tall in the east of the world since ancient times, and wars, aggressions, and disasters have never brought her down, and the reason is that the Chinese nation has never flinched.
The Chinese nation, which has endured hardships, has the courage to struggle to the end against all difficulties, and in ancient times had the spirit of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth and establishing a destiny for the people", and now it also has the heroic ambition of "striving hard".
It is precisely because of the chinese nation's invincibility that there is such a heroic city as Wuhan, there is a real action of "one side has difficulties, eight parties support" during the epidemic period, and there is a China with incomparably rich foundation and incomparably confident steps.
"A generation has a mission of a generation", and the mission of the youth of my generation is to stand firm, like countless predecessors, not afraid of difficulties, not to shrink back, "to open the way in every mountain, to build bridges in the face of water", so that this land can continue to maintain the courage of "nine days to catch the bright moon", and can turn one daunting mountain into a ladder to continue to climb.
The Russian poet Akhmatova once wrote: "I was born at a time when, in short, only this age is blessed."
It was the best of times, and WWF didn't back down in the face of poachers' bullets, they stepped forward and propped up a prairie for the black rhinoceros in Africa; In the face of disease and war, MSF did not flinch, they stepped forward to bring hope to people in the chaos of war.
In such an era, the people of the world should also face the dilemma, and at the moment when the epidemic and terrorism still exist, all countries in the world should not and cannot shrink back, so as to embrace a better tomorrow.
Yeats, the nobel laureate in literature, once said, "Go, children of the world, hold hands with an elf, and walk toward the wilderness and the rivers."
So, I want to shout to myself, to others, to people, to countries, to the world: "Go! Because can't back down! ”