When I was a teenager, I saw a movie “She is lonelier than fireworks”, the talented cellist Dupré, from childhood blooming amazing musical talent, with a huge halo and countless applause, but stuck in not knowing how to live.
There is an episode I still remember, she was performing in a foreign country, the days are long clothes always need to change, try to go to the street laundry, can not communicate, than hands and feet – finally, she sent the clothes to her hometown, so that her sister washed and sent her over. One day she said to her sister, “You know what? It’s hard to be a genius. ” Her sister replied, “It’s also hard to be an ordinary person. “
At one time, I thought the hard work of ordinary people meant nothing more than bread and butter, a tighter economy, a lack of connections, and a shorter insight. I was wrong, it may also include the sense of bewilderment that is blocked by the excellent, the sense of powerlessness that realizes that they are ordinary, “this life is just so” discouragement.
The girl in the front row was half a head shorter than her, unassuming and quiet, but she had a tenth grade in piano and a tenth grade in violin, and her parents were considering choosing a third instrument for her to study. The girl can play “thunder and lightning polka” and has participated in many world-class choral competitions.
The boy in the back row of Xiaonian’s class was very rowdy, and if he didn’t grab a word in class, he was sleeping, or else he was playing games. The teacher never criticized him, and soon Xiao Nian learned that the boys had participated in international Olympiads and Shin-O competitions, winning gold and silver medals. In addition, there are many people who can rock climbing, fencing, ice hockey, equestrian, diving, figure skating ……
At first, I guided her in this way: “Let’s not compare those, and others than learning. “However, most of those aforementioned students were in the top 50 of their grade. I am exhausted, in the process of raising Xiaonian, the training of the best, the skills to practice, not a drop. But at this moment, she and I both clearly see: between not bad, good, excellent and outstanding, is a rift that is insurmountable and cannot be fought against.
I want to encourage her to fly first, but this is not something that can be solved by diligent study and hard work. Xiao Nian seriously asked, “Mom, do you have enough money to send me to equestrian school? I answered her cautiously: “It’s not about money, the horse farms must be far away, I don’t know how to drive… It was about money, but I couldn’t admit it.
I said to Xiaonian: most people in this world are ordinary, depending on which level of ordinary. There is always a place where you lose, and even if you keep playing until the Olympics, you can’t keep winning every time. The unique generation of masters, there are also moments of gloomy retirement. If you can’t do it all, why not pick one of your favorites and plow through it?
Once upon a time, there was a man who loved history and wanted to study under a teacher when he was young, but the teacher refused, saying, “You’re too stupid. The teacher refused, saying: “You are too stupid.” The stupid man then put in stupid efforts, and for ten years, he did only one thing in his spare time every day: read through the History of Ming Dynasty. In the end, he became a generation of Ming history experts and wrote “The Fifteenth Year of the Wanli”, his name was Huang Renyu.
The man who told me this story was once the top student in the college entrance examination himself, but now he is over 50 years old and has achieved nothing. His sentiment is: “When a wise person does something, he naturally picks the easiest one. Everything is easy, everything is half-assed. And people who do great things, need a little blunt force, need to dead eyes, eyes, ears, mouth and nose closed to the outside world. “Yes, most people are not smart enough, but only a very few people are dumb enough.
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