How to evaluate the song "People who Race with Yourself"?

In 2006, Jonathan Lee, who debuted for more than 20 years, held a concert of "Sense and Perception" in Taipei Dome. The performance lasted for several days, with unprecedented pomp. Emil Wakin Chau, Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche and Fish Leong appeared as guests one after another. The classic summary of "Everyone has a Jonathan Lee in his heart" was also broadcast by the host Zhang Aijia at the concert.

Halfway through the trip, Jonathan Lee confessed and told himself, "He didn't study very well, but fortunately he had some ideals of his own, which he pursued persistently and foolishly." After that, I sang "Race with Yourself" and dedicated it to the colleagues of Rolling Stone Records who "created a beautiful era together and paid their youth and efforts".

In fact, the original intention of this song was to give it to Jonathan Lee's good brother Zhang Peiren, who was then the head of the Chinese planning department of Rolling Stone Records. Create a "magic stone" trend, tap the "three outstanding figures" of Dou Wei, Zhang Chu and He Yong, and release the album "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty" by the Tang Dynasty band and Black Panther band. The professional resumes of Panther and Zhang Peiren are not glamorous, so it is not too much to say that they have the influence of the times.

But when he was young, both Zhang Peiren and Jonathan Lee were poor. In today's words, he was a failure.

People who race with themselves start with a portrayal:

Dear Wen Lan, my brother.

You seldom hit others, but this time.

You have surpassed yourself.

Although when you leave school,

Everyone thinks you won't succeed.

You don't blame yourself for it.

In order to encourage, there are many brothers who are down and out in the song to comfort each other. "The most common thing is your girlfriend, who left you." And "You and I have failed more than once."

Jonathan Lee wrote an article about being slow and late-maturing: "I have always been a child with poor academic performance, and I still can't answer the square of (a+b) in the third year of high school. Sun Shan failed the high school exam twice. I clearly remember how disappointed my mother was when she was cooking dinner and learned that her only son had failed the list again. My grades can only make me leave home to go to technical college. "

Growing up, Jonathan Lee was often told, "You are too bad, you won't succeed." . When all the signs point to a futile life, he chose silence, "because I don't know what to say." The loser has no right to speak, and of course no one wants to listen. "

Can endure disappointment and bid farewell to attention, but Jonathan Lee can imagine "what he will accept and like". Qin and pen became his tools to the spiritual world.

Jonathan Lee's hometown is Beitou, Taiwan Province. According to him, "this slow-growing town is like an old sweater given to you by your elders. It is obviously out of date, but it is full of warmth." Similarly, although the humble room is small, it is the starting point of the road to music.

"Three Things of A Zong" truthfully recorded the life scene of that day:

I am the son of a gas boss.

Before I prove that I have the ability to make money independently

Father asked me to help deliver gas at home.

I must take advantage of the afternoon when business is slow.

Tie the telephone sign to the telephone pole in the new community.

I must carry gasoline.

Through the smelly night market

This day is my first time on variety show.

It stopped after more than a year.

It has never been written in the song that aspirating is a heavy job. He is very tired every day. After returning home, Jonathan Lee needs to soak his stiff hands in hot water so that he can play the guitar and write songs.

It was not an easy time. However, at the Shanghai concert on 20 15, "Since I can't stay young, I'd better be an uncle." Jonathan Lee expressed his nostalgia: "After I wrote many popular love songs, I began to write songs in many places. In the hotel room, on the road, even in the toilet. But I always think of the little room where I write songs. "

The so-called initial heart, the most unforgettable youth. I have learned that Gan Kun is great, but I still pity every grass and tree.

Hemingway once had a popular saying: "It is not noble to be superior to others. True nobility should be superior to the past. "

Jonathan Lee's metamorphosis has nothing to do with nobility. Just like each of us, we will inevitably experience some trivial things. The final outcome may just be complete, life is dull and there are difficulties, which need to be spent in the crowd.

But "The Race with Yourself" at least provides a way to enter the WTO and illuminates the long journey:

At that time, around us.

There are a lot of questions.

Don't know the meaning of success

Just beyond yourself.

In fact, the key to the problem is not "a truck problem", but "at that time". Once you understand that the meaning of success lies in surpassing yourself, you will have a more transparent understanding of time and life. Even between understanding and doing, there is still a vast mountain of money.

Just after his 48th birthday, Jonathan Lee wrote a song to the radio station called The Silent Man. There is a lyric that goes like this:

The world is so noisy.

Make the silent person look a little silly.

These people should not be underestimated.

If you give him a guitar,

In a word, this is Jonathan Lee's own situation and a love letter to every ordinary person.

We are all people who race against ourselves.

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