Suffering is a stepping stone for genius, for the capable
Man is a wealth, but an abyss for the weak.
--Balzac
On top of 200 acres of greenery, the University of Essex blooms like a flower, with teaching buildings, student accommodation, shops, banks, theaters, art galleries, bars, cafes and sports facilities. When the end of class time came, students from all over the world poured out of the teaching building and went everywhere, including a special Chinese student, who slowly groped back to the dormitory on crutches, he was the first blind student in southwest China, and the only blind student in the current year of Azekis University - Zheng Jianwei.
In September 2013, Zheng Jianwei bid farewell to his parents, left Chongqing, and came to the University of Essex in the United Kingdom alone, starting a difficult life of studying in a foreign country.
The dormitory building where he lived was more than 1600 meters away from the classroom, and at first he often walked the wrong way, but later through repeated groping and walking back and forth, he finally walked to the classroom without hanging up crutches. Since the school did not have a canteen and it was too expensive to eat in the restaurant, Zheng Jianwei cooked in his room. To this end, he bought pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and various ingredients from the supermarket, and cooked himself a simple meal because of the ugliness.
The textbooks and learning materials required by Zheng Jianwei are electronic versions that can be read by blind people. Other international students are very friendly and beautiful to him, often helping him prepare study materials and inviting him to their homes to play, while Chinese secret students take him to go shopping and buy daily necessities.
As a blind student, Zheng Jianwei is particularly happy to come to the Uk to study at a higher education institution, because all this is not easy to come by. For more than a decade, he had silently endured all kinds of suffering from the dark world.
Zheng Jianwei was born blind in both eyes, lived in the dark world as soon as he was born, when he was 7 years old, Zheng Jianwei found that the children around him had gone to school, and he also wanted to go to school. After many inquiries, his parents finally sent him to Chongqing Blind School.
Zheng Jianwei was not only smart and studious, but also studied hard and soon became the class leader. After 8 years of hard study, Zheng Jianwei completed anatomy, massage courses and the basic theories of Chinese medicine. After graduating from middle school, Zheng Jianwei was admitted to the Qingdao Blind School Ordinary High School for the Blind. After graduating from high school, Zheng Jianwei was admitted to Changchun University's acupuncture and massage major, becoming the first blind college student in Qianjiang.
Blind people read books differently from ordinary people reading books, ordinary people can read books at a glance and ten lines, officials can only use their fingers to grope the books on the rate of education, relying on memory to understand the content inside, so the reading speed is much slower than ordinary people. Therefore, Zheng Jianwei often reads until late at night, but no matter how tired he is, he will persevere to the end.
The defect in vision cannot stop Zheng Jianwei's desire to learn and the pace of going outside. During his college years, Zheng Jianwei had the dream of entering graduate school. However, there are no schools and majors in China that recruit blind graduate students, and those who want to go to graduate school can only go abroad. As a result, studying abroad has become Zheng Jianwei's biggest dream. In 2006, zheng Jianwei entered the acupuncture department of Qianjiang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine after graduating from university, and after 3 years, he resigned to prepare for the IELTS exam and aspired to become a blind international student. To study abroad, you must pass the language barrier, but ordinary people have a hard time learning English, let alone a blind person. In the face of difficulties, Zheng Jianwei is still scrappy, thinking that after reading books for so many years, do you still care about English and other slow exams? As a result, Zheng Jianwei taught himself English at home for 3 years and entered the IELTS field three times.
During the exam, Zheng Jianwei took the IELTS exam alone in a separate examination room for him, using a special version of the exam paper that was converted into a special version that adapted to his physiological characteristics, the ordinary version was only 10 pages, while his special version had a thick 100 pages. The original time-limited 3-hour exam was extended to 12 hours due to the special way he answered the questions, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and the invigilator changed several times. People were touched by his perseverance in his tenacious struggle. In three exams with a full score of 9 points, Zheng Jianwei scored a score of 6 and two scores of 6.5 points respectively, and finally obtained the application qualification to study at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.
Sudden suffering has obliterated some people and achieved some people, and for those who have the courage to struggle, suffering is a wealth and an opportunity to urge people to forge ahead. For those who are slow and retreating, suffering is a burden that makes them fall into the bottomless abyss. Only by overcoming suffering can people be qualified to be strong, and can they be respected by others like the French journalist Jean Dominique Bobby, who was born in Paris, is a famous French journalist and God is the editor-in-chief of the famous Parisian fashion magazine "ELLE". In December 1995, Bobby suddenly fell ill with cerebrovascular disease and fell into a deep coma. When he woke up, the doctor told him that he had unfortunately suffered from a disease known as "atresia syndrome" and had lost all motor functions. Without assistance, he could not move, could not eat, could not speak, could not even breathe. Now, he has only one eye in his body—his left eye can move. From a large living person to a vegetative person with only one eye to move in an instant, Bobby felt desperate, and to his chagrin, his recently conceived work was about to rot in his brain.
After a period of adjustment, Bobby made an amazing decision: to complete his work through the only moving left eye. He trained his left eye to become his vital connection to the world, others, and life. The way of communicating is also greatly simplified, using this eye, he blinks once to indicate "yes" and blink twice to indicate "no". Began to "write", Bobby letter by letter to the assistant letter by letter to recite his belly draft, and then copied by the assistant, the assistant each time in order to pronounce the commonly used letters of the French language, let Bobby choose, when she read the letter is the letter in the text, Bobby blinked his left eye to indicate that it is correct, the assistant wrote the letter. Then the assistant repeats the commonly used letters for Bobby to choose, so through the spelling of one letter after another, the combination of one word and one word, and the arrangement of sentence by sentence, slowly writing.
This way of "writing" was extremely difficult, and it took Bobbi almost a year to complete one or two pages of manuscripts a day, and it took him almost a year to finally complete his work. To write the book, Bobby blinked more than 200,000 times. This extraordinary 150-page book is called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. With such a difficult writing, it is obvious that not a single word is superfluous. In the book, Bobby tells his thoughts and thoughts after his whole body is full of yongjing, and shows the touching story of his hard work and struggle to create.
Balzac, who is known as the "father of the modern French novel," once pointed out to the point: "Suffering is a stepping stone for genius, a wealth for the able, and an abyss for the weak."
Zheng Jianwei, a blind student, defeated the dark world and realized his dream of studying abroad. Jean-Minnick Bobby used only one moving left eye, through more than 200,000 blinks, tenacious struggle, to complete a work that made people's hearts tremble, and finally let his life leave no regrets and overflow with sunshine.