Hope and persistence Zhang Baotong 2017.9.25

In just three years, Girard, the American car sales tycoon, was called "the world's greatest salesman" by the Guinness Book of World Records, and he still holds an unprecedented record for selling expensive goods: an average of six cars are sold every day! It can be said that he is a successful example of perseverance in hope until the end.

That year, he applied for a job as a car salesman in a car sales company, and his boss gave him a one-month probationary period, and if he could sell the car within a month, he would be retained, and if he could not sell the car, he would be fired. However, he toiled for a month, but he didn't even sell a car. That night at the end of the month, the boss asked him for the keys back to the car so that he wouldn't have to come again tomorrow. But he said that it was not yet 12 o'clock in the evening, so today is not over yet.

He drove the car to the side of the road and sat in the car waiting for a miracle to happen. Towards midnight, a man with many pots on his back knocked on his car door to get in and warm himself. He opened the car door to let him in and brought him a hot cup of coffee. The two began to talk. He asked the man what would happen to you if I bought your pot. The pot seller said I would continue to travel and sell the next one. He asked again what if all the pots were sold out? The pot seller said that I would go home and carry dozens of pots out to sell. He asked the pot seller what you should do if your pot sells more and more and farther and farther? The pot seller said I would buy a car, but I can't afford it now. The two talked for a long time. At 12 o'clock in the morning, the pot seller ordered a car from him, and the pick-up time was 5 months later, and the deposit was the money for a pot. Because of this order, the boss kept him. Over the next 15 years, he sold more than 10,000 cars, creating a miracle in the history of sales.

Success is often the result of hope and perseverance. Hope and perseverance are the beacons and ladders of our success. Without hope, our lives are like moving hopelessly in boundless darkness. In this way, in life, we often encounter the wilderness or the vast snowfield, we have walked for a long, long time, but we still can't see any end and hope. At this point, should we wait until there is hope and continue to persevere, or should we keep holding on until we see hope?

The English philosopher Russell said, "Hope is a crutch of tenacity, patience is a travel bag, and with them you can embark on a journey of eternity." In fact, as long as we live in this world, hope will beat in our hearts. Hope is the truest fantasy, hope, expectation and desire in our hearts, and it is the beacon and sunshine of our lives. Hope will not rest until death. This year, when I went back to my hometown, I encountered an incident, my mother's neighbor was an old man in his 80s, the old man was sick, and he fell again, and the rescue was ineffective, so he had to wait for death. However, the children are all in railway engineering units, some in Anhui, some in Hebei, some in Sichuan, and some in Xinjiang to build railways. Even if you take a plane, it will take two or three days to get back at the earliest. The children rushed back as quickly as possible, and by this time the old man was no longer able to breathe. However, because the eldest son was building a railway far away from Urumqi, because the distance was long, and he did not buy a ticket for the next day, he was not able to come back in a hurry. When he didn't see the eldest son, the old man didn't breathe. It wasn't until the afternoon of the fourth day that the eldest son hurried back. Seeing the eldest son, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and closed his eyes. People said that if it wasn't for the eldest son, the old man would have died two days ago. This example shows us how powerful hope can be.

As long as the sun shines, hope shines. Hope is the most precious treasure in our lives. If there is no hope, we will not plow and sow and look to the future. Man lives in hope. Old hopes are realized, or they are gone, and new ones will burn with them. And without hope, despair destroys lives.

I remember that a few years ago, I still lived on the second side of the road in the north of Xi'an Road. Some of the mills and cotton weaving mills there have been some heart-wrenching tragedies because of the closure of the factories and the loss of their jobs. A 10-year-old boy who was a laid-off worker was passing by the market after school when he saw a butcher selling cooked meat who didn't pay attention, took a piece of meat from someone's basin and ran away. As a result, he was caught by a butcher, snatched the school bag, and asked the child to call the adult. The child's mother came and apologized to the butcher, saying that the child did not deliberately want to learn badly, but that the couple had been laid off for half a year, and because of the tension of life, they had not eaten meat for half a year. When the butcher heard this, he felt that the family was very pitiful, apologized to the child's mother, and filled a plastic bag full of cooked meat for the child's mother to take to the child's mother. When the child's mother came home and told the child's father about it, both of them felt that they were incompetent, so poor that they didn't even have the money to give the child a meal of meat, and it was a shame that the child went to someone's meat stall to eat other people's meat. The two adults had lost confidence in life, and when they encountered this again, they felt that it was too embarrassing and boring to live like this, so they bought a pack of rat poison, poured it into the meat and boiled it, and then, as soon as the whole family ate it, they all died.

There is also an old worker's son, who works in a hosiery factory, and the factory can't pay wages, so he gives some socks to the workers and sells them. The old worker's son sold on the street for several days without selling a few pairs, and he was very pessimistic, and he wondered how he could live such a life as a dignified man? In this way, he could not figure it out for a while, so he went up to the fifth floor of his house and jumped down and fell to his death.

In fact, there were many families like them at that time, but after that period, the government implemented the laid-off reemployment project and the shantytown demolition project for them, and now they are all living in the high-rise new area of demolition and resettlement, and some people have already done things in various employment methods, and more people have reached retirement age and can receive pensions, and the whole life has undergone major changes. If those who have committed suicide because of a temporary predicament can hold on for a while longer, the whole situation will change. It's a pity that they didn't see hope and couldn't hold on.

It is not because there is hope that we should persevere, but because we persevere, we will have hope, and it is not because we have the opportunity that we should strive for it, but because we will have the opportunity to have it. Chasing hope is like climbing Mount Everest, it is a long and difficult process. Sometimes you're exhausted, injured, or struggling, helpless, and hope is as precarious, distant, or even out of reach, as Mount Everest. But you must have indomitable tenacity, dominate faith, dominate courage, persevere and courageously, and keep climbing, in order to reach the peak of hope and appreciate the infinite scenery of life.

If you are not in the wide sea, you will not spread your wings to fly. However, when you spread your wings and fly in the sea, but you can't see the edge of the sea and the hope of survival, how regretful and frustrated you will be! In fact, not all perseverance can reach the other side of hope, and not every beginning has a happy ending. For many people, when you start on the road with good hopes, you don't know whether the road ahead will be full of snow or muddy swamps, let alone a water curtain hole or a dead end at the end of the road.

For most people, hope may always be a dream, like seeing flowers in the fog and looking at the moon in the water, which seems to be close in front of us, but it is actually far away, but we should still persevere to the end and not give up. Because the pursuit and persistence itself will fill our hearts with hopes and dreams, and full of hopes and dreams will make our hearts happy and beautiful, will make us full of emotions, and will make our lives more meaningful. Even if we can't see the end of hope, we can at least see the scenery along the way and taste the taste of chasing dreams.

Hope is the source of life, and without hope, life will wither. There are two lights in every person's heart, one is a light of hope and the other is a light of courage. With these two lights, we are not afraid of the darkness of the sea and the treacherous nature of the wind and waves. However, some people give up because they don't see hope, and some people give up because they don't have hope at all. This is the sorrow of life and the failure of life.

Yesterday's dream may be today's hope, and today's hope may be tomorrow's reality. Let us have dreams in our hearts and chase the infinitely beautiful tomorrow towards the sun of hope. 10