The past is just a memory, and now is the future.

We always like to do one thing, and that is to recall the past.

Our past possessions and successes are part of our reluctance. We always think that today's self came to the present by relying on all yesterday's things, and we will continue to build on them in the future.

But I want to say that the past is the past, because it has passed away, leaving only memories and our present selves. But what really determines our future is not these, but whether you are striding forward at this moment.

In Extreme Challenge, the men's gang went to a middle school to make a swearing-in meeting for the children there. Facing groups of lovely 18-year-old children, what is presented on their faces is hope and beauty.

All the students are standing side by side on the school playground. They are on the same starting line.

There are white lines drawn in front of them. The men's gang throws them six questions. If one is satisfied, they will walk six steps forward to the next white line.

These six questions are roughly: Are your parents college graduates? Are they going to send you abroad? Have you ever cultivated one of your hobbies? Have you ever invited a one-on-one tutor for you?

After asking six questions, I saw that the students at the same starting line gradually fell behind. Some of them walked to the first row, some were in the middle, and some were still wandering in the same place.

At that time, they felt as if their lives had been frozen. We were only 18 years old. How could there be such a big gap?

what should we do in the future?

It seems that such doubts often appear in my life.

in the past when I was growing up, I would question myself and deny myself.

I have no good talent; Without excellent parents, I can provide high-quality education conditions; I don't have extremely rich life experience, which can support me to go further.

such doubts often ring in my ears, and I even feel that my future is nothing more than a mediocre life, and that's all. Those so-called excellent and yearning lives have closed the door to me forever.

I have given up on myself countless times. I really don't seem to be a person who can succeed if I fail in the college entrance examination, the existing environment and my own conditions.

when something can't achieve its expected goal, I want to let go. I don't think I'm the material, and I don't have the possibility. Why bother with myself and waste time?

there are not a few people who have similar ideas with me.

We are all children brought up in ordinary families and have no talent. Not even Kochi.

I went to an ordinary school and lived an ordinary life. I will often feel inexplicable powerlessness and fear where my future is.

Can we really change our destiny by working hard?

can we really surpass others from a very different starting line?

at this point, you might say, did you really give up? Since it's so tangled and so powerless?

Maybe this is the answer of many people, but what I want to tell you is that it is not.

Even though I often want to give up, even though my starting line is far from many people at the moment, there is always another voice telling me in my heart: Maybe you can do it.

The story of Extreme Challenge is not over yet. Those students who are distributed around the starting line have learned such a message that there are twenty gifts not far in front of them. As long as you can rush into the twenty, you can have them.

The existence of this gift means that you still have a chance to go to that place and take what you like, as long as you are willing to run.

But at this moment, they have no so-called parental help or foreign aid support. If they want to get gifts, they have to rely on themselves. You have as much motivation as you want.

When the whistle sounded, all the students pulled up their legs and sprinted forward. There was no difference between the first and the last, only who ran faster and harder than who.

In the end, twenty lucky students got gifts, many of them were students who were at a disadvantage when they started.

At this time, it seems that the students who got the gift won a complete victory and overtook. Those students on the playground were blocked by a wall, and they had no hope.

is that really the case? I saw that the children outside the house knocked down the barrier that hindered them from moving forward, rushed into it, and still stood side by side with the twenty classmates.

many things that determine our future are not the accumulation of the past, but us at this moment. When we leave the hotbed, our parents and ourselves, children without umbrellas can only run hard on their own.

I was depressed for a long time after I failed in the college entrance examination. I didn't know where my future was, and I studied a major I didn't like. I thought my life was hopeless.

when I first joined the work, I saw many students admitted to graduate schools or graduated from prestigious schools and went to work in their favorite enterprises, while I was doing an extremely ordinary job with an extremely ordinary salary. I didn't know what my career development would be like.

But every time I want to give up, the other me will pull me out. She tells me, "Don't give up. Now you don't mean the future you."

So, I chose to go to college. It took me nine months to tell myself that I could also accomplish my original goal. I don't like my major anymore, but I still got many certificates and won a national inspirational scholarship.

So, I began to work hard. I can't learn many things, so I will study hard and accumulate.

After 25 years old, when many people think that a girl's life will be frozen, I quit my job and started a new round of study and challenges. Before I was 3 years old, I achieved some goals that I never imagined before.

but I know that every progress is the result of present efforts.

Now I am still an ordinary person, nameless and unprofitable, doing ordinary things and living an ordinary life.

but I no longer doubt myself and fear the future.

We are afraid of many things because we don't have the motivation to run and the courage to continue to challenge. We are bound by many current situations and we dare not break through.

A 27-year-old college student, who was admitted to graduate school this year, is still learning knowledge and achieving his goals. The 32-year-old cousin began to learn makeup and photography to open up her own spare time; The 78-year-old grandmother studied computer knowledge, hoping to know the new world through the Internet.

If you want to make progress and become better, the status quo is never an obstacle. The real obstacle is our own cowardice and giving up, and we admit that we are a loser from the heart.

Everyone has a different starting point, but our destination is also different. Who knows, you won't be the first person to run to the destination?

you don't know if you can run, and you don't know how far you can run until you are willing to run hard.

The past is only a memory, but now we are the key to the future.

Run hard, no matter what tomorrow is. Only when you run can you see where the future is and what is under your feet.