When his father was alive, he said that the biggest regret in his life was that he did not go to the Red Army. Born in the 20s, when the Red Army's Long March passed by the village entrance, he once followed the troops, ran away, begged for a long time, and asked to join the army! Helplessly, he was not yet 15 years old at the time, thin, weak, and short, and the uncle of the Red Army touched his head, shook his head and said, Baby, no!
"Alas, if you had joined the army, your father would not have been a small unit leader for the rest of his life!"
My father's words, though a joke, resonated with me.
I also feel that I am not born at the right time, and I regret a lot of things.
In 1966, graduated from high school, with excellent grades, the first in the class, and had an iron heart to apply for the University of Science and Technology of China and realize the dream of a scientist. When Chairman Mao and his old man waved an order, the people of the whole country were full of vigor and set off a "unprecedented" cultural revolution, threw down their books, and made a revolution.
The revolution was noisy for a while, chaotic and chaotic, feeling a little confused, so he went home to wait for work, trapped in the small house of the county government compound, read idle books, lala erhu, and also worked as a small worker in the construction team for half a year.
When the whole country began not to grasp the revolution and only promote production, the old man called on "intellectual youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants", so he and his sister worked as a peasant by the Jinsha River for two years...
Seven delays and eight mistakes, until the resumption of the college entrance examination, walking on the boulevard of Fudan University, is already a bearded fork, a father, almost 30 years old!
Isn't that what is not the right time?
Sometimes when I think about it, I really feel sorry for my youth being delayed, and I regret it!
That day, I met a friend and talked about it, and he told me a story about the writer Wu Zuguang.
Wu is a theater everyone, talented, but a very bumpy life. When he was a child, he was confronted with warlords; when he was young, he encountered the Japanese army invading China; he looked forward to the liberation of the whole country, and within a few days of comfortable days, a family was beaten into a rightist faction, and they were assigned to the Northern Wilderness, and for more than twenty years, they suffered a lot of hardships and hardships.
It is said that his life is not smooth enough, however, Lao Wu is very far-sighted, especially open- and open-minded, whenever anyone asks him for ink treasure, he will write the four words "Life is just in time", before and after, he actually wrote hundreds of paintings, all of which are these four words, and nothing else!
Why is a person who is "born at the wrong time" so obsessively and favorably "born at the right time"?
If you think about it, there is a philosophy.
People who generally lament that they are "born at an inopportune time" are probably life encountering their own irreversible and helpless external forces, suppressing their talents, burying their youth, making their own flowers and bones blossom, not blooming to the fullest, and their fate has not been as ideal as imagined, so smooth, so brilliant.
This is indeed a fact, undeniable.
However, everything has to be thought of from both sides. Take me, for example, when I encountered the Cultural Revolution, I delayed my study in college, but isn't it also a rare experience to encounter and experience such an abnormal state of heated minds of the people of the whole country? People who have experienced the Cultural Revolution are not also much more urgent and profound in their thinking about the fate of the country and the nation, and their demand to wholeheartedly develop the economy and not to engage in any political toss, so that their psychological quality is not more rational and mature?
In the same way, having been a young intellectual, having gone to the countryside, and having suffered hardships, it has taken some time, but isn't it also helpful for your own growth, for the cultivation of your own hard-working spirit, the cultivation of the mentality of the common people, and the understanding of the real social situation of the people at the bottom of China?
Although, that is a last resort, it is a historical regression.
Sometimes, when we meet with these old intellectuals, we even feel that our descendants have not suffered too much and are too ignorant, and they wish they had to go to the countryside for two years and suffer more to get it.
In the face of nature, we humans are actually very small, very fragile, and very passive. The arrival of a great movement or disaster, the sudden arrival of an external force that you did not expect, is not something that your little individual life can decide, change, or resist.
In other words, in this life and in this life, your "destiny code" has long been written and cannot be changed!
What to do? Come here, with a "life at the right time" mentality, calmly go forward, actively respond to the "this one" unique situation given to you by the outside world, and in your own unique experience of "this life", to taste your unique irreplaceable sour, sweet and bitter, isn't it also very interesting, it is worth it?
I remember someone saying that a person's life is welded by a period of experience and suffering. The more wonderful and tortuous this paragraph is, the more interesting your life will be.
This is your unique irreplaceable life.
The older he is, the more old Zhan believes in the eight words: great destiny is up to heaven, and small potentials can be achieved.
Hey hey, I'm the only one in the world, and it's good to be born at the right time.
