The attitude of life towards you depends on your actions

2020.7.4 The weather is sunny

I have seen a sentence in an answer before.

You went to the mountains to chop wood, met someone herding sheep, and chatted happily with him for a long time. As a result, other people's sheep are full, but you haven't even chopped a piece of firewood.

I just focus on chatting with others, but forget my original intention. Indulging in pleasure without taking action will result in nothing.

How life treats you depends on your actions.

Without action, how can we gain anything?

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I watched a video at TED, which was a speech by an American girl, Liz. She was called "the ugliest person in the world" because of her strange disease and ugly appearance. When her appearance was uploaded to the Internet, some netizens left messages saying, "Why did her parents give birth to her?" "Burn her to death!" ", "She should commit suicide" and other bad words.

We will be afraid of the ridicule of others and the criticism of those cold-eyed sarcastic remarks. However, as the father said to his son in "The Pursuit of Happiness": "Don't let others tell you that you can't be a genius." , not even me”.

Liz, who was spurned and reviled by others, lived another life.

Later, Liz obtained a higher degree, established her own online video channel, published several inspirational books, and filmed the documentary "Brave Heart" based on her own experience.

In his speech, Liz told everyone that although you have experienced many hardships, what do you want to use to define yourself? Is it the suffering, injustice, or the achievements you have made for your dreams? Presumably, only the latter is the value that truly belongs to our own lives extracted over time. Defining and labeling yourself with your true value is the responsibility for this life.

She often said: "My life has been very difficult, but that doesn't matter. I will let my goals, my success, and my accomplishments define me, not my appearance."

Because of her appearance, Liz’s first impression is that she is despised and disliked in life. Just imagine, compared to beauty or ugliness, everyone would choose the beautiful one. Indeed, today is a society that values ??appearance. Research shows that people with appearance advantages are more likely to be accepted by others and are more likely to be cared for by the same or opposite sex. And the disadvantage of appearance is a stumbling block that hinders a person from moving forward.

But ability is never limited to appearance.

Through her own efforts, Liz overcame the rumors and satire in the outside world, and relied on her own actions to go from being called "the ugliest person in the world" to "the lucky one favored by God." She moved step by step on her own, climbing from the bottom of the black hole to the sunlight bathed in brilliance and reflection.

Her luck begins with her actions and ends with her attitude. After she obtained a higher degree, established an online channel, and published a self-help book. Those who had ridiculed and looked down on her, who would care about her appearance.

What others remember is ability. The same is true in life. The harder you work, seize opportunities, and take action, the luckier you will be.

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When we were in high school, our teacher once played the movie "Storm on Harvard Road" to us. The heroine comes from a poor family, her parents are drug addicts, and her father is in a shelter. Liz started begging when she was 8 years old. When she was living on the streets at the age of 15, her mother died of HIV infection. Liz was deeply touched and decided not to continue this life. She wanted to change her destiny and return to high school. At the age of 17, he completed the four-year high school course in two years and won the New York Times first-class scholarship in 1996 to study at Harvard.

This is about the experience of the heroine, who has entered the highest university in the United States from the slums through her own persistence and action.

There is also a good negative example in the play, which is the heroine Liz’s good friend Chris.

Chris, like Liz, was born in a slum and was taken in by a foster care institution. At the beginning of the film, the two became good friends because of their similar family backgrounds and experiences.

After her mother died, Liz knew that only by becoming a scholar could she change her destiny, get out of the quagmire, and get rid of the stigma of the slums. So she worked hard to get the chance to study, often studying and sleeping in subway stations and corridors, and completed the four-year course in two years. At this time, Liz had already found the direction to fight. She tried to drag her good friend Chris back to the right path, so that she could plead with the teacher to get a place.

However, Chris would rather live on the streets than go to school. He ridiculed Liz as an arrogant idea and even persuaded her to give up getting into Harvard.

Later, Liz, who was not favored, actually entered the top university in the United States and received a full scholarship, changing her destiny step by step. And Chris, who would rather become a puddle of mud than take some action to study and become a talent, still accomplished nothing in the end.

Everyone has desires and desires. What kind of person you become and what kind of life you live depends on your own actions.

Just like the line in "Wind and Rain on the Road to Harvard": The world is spinning, you are just a speck of dust, and the earth will still spin without you. Reality will not change according to your will, because other people's will will be stronger than yours. The cruelty of life can make people overwhelmed, so some people are immersed in hesitation and confusion all day long, unwilling to open their eyes to see the situation clearly, and unwilling to think about the small factors that have accumulated to create this situation.

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We are born ordinary. We cannot change the wealth or poverty of our native family, the temptation and criticism from the outside world. We can't make decisions about those ironclad facts, but what kind of life we ??want to live and what kind of person we want to be, the only one who can decide us is ourselves.

We often think that in a society where haste exceeds speed, it is just a delusion to have a decent job and live a peaceful and enjoyable life.

But don’t forget, delusion begins with dreaming.

I want to communicate with students at a higher institution and experience an excellent academic atmosphere; I want to try the excitement of subzero Hokkaido skiing; I want to experience skydiving in Hawaii overlooking the rugged mountains and emerald coral coast; I want to see the scattered colors of the polar circle night sky.

Before I can long for these lives, I have to put in more effort and action than I imagined.

Life is a natural law of survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit. Who has not been afraid of being eliminated by this world?

Faced with the threats of various conditions in life, mobility is the only bargaining chip that can support you from the first step to the last step.

I know there are people everywhere in the world who may tell you how things should be and how to do it, but at the same time no one can predict what the results will be unless he tries it himself. .

Trying is action, and the result after trying is your attitude towards life.