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Not long ago, a senior sister who rarely appears in the circle of friends suddenly updated a dynamic:

"Finally admitted to the middle of the heart. ”

A few words of understatement emotion is a master's admission letter from Communication University of China.

Off-screen, I was shocked, didn't she work well in a well-known newspaper in Beijing? When did she go to graduate school?

It turned out that the senior sister who had been in her comfort zone for a long time was not satisfied with her current situation, and a sentence she saw by chance made her replan her life.

"If you don't spend time creating the life you want, it takes longer to cope with the life you don't want. ”

She secretly resolved in her heart:

I'm still so young, why don't I try to get what I want?

That's a pity, how can I tell my younger siblings and my children in the future, let them work hard to pursue their dreams.

In October last year, amid all kinds of doubts and ridicule, my sister quit her job at the newspaper, left Beijing, returned to rent an apartment near the undergraduate school, and began to prepare for the exam wholeheartedly.

Senior sister's road to graduate school is by no means easy, and only she knows how much she has paid and sacrificed behind the blockbuster.

For her, who is engaged in and loves journalism, what she wants is not only a graduate degree, but also a Chinese transmission, her dream since childhood.

In the future, she can be more confident and have more choices.

If you don't try and break through yourself, then the dream of a prestigious school when you are young can only become a lifelong regret.

Chatting with my friend Xixi last night, she confided in me about the current situation, not to mention the 3-hour subway commute every day, and always working overtime to be squeezed by the leader.

What makes her most helpless is that she is the only girl in the entire department, and she can't find anyone if she wants to go shopping.

I took the opportunity to ask, do you regret that you didn't listen to your family's advice and go home to take the civil service exam?

Sissy pondered for a few seconds, "No, I still like my life now." ”

When she first entered the university, Xixi had the idea that she would study IT in the future and work in Shanghai after graduation.

Because her major is completely unrelated to her hobbies, she has been trying to save money during college, and in her senior year, she resolutely took the small treasury she had saved for many years to apply for a training class to learn IT.

She was one of only seven of the 33 people in the training class who persevered and completed all the courses.

It's not that she doesn't want to give up, it's just that she knows what she wants better than others.

With this hard-won skill, Xixi went to Shanghai after graduating from university and became a programmer in the IT industry she loved.

In Xixi's eyes, Shanghai is a city full of charm, with countless dreamers as small and resilient as she is.

Even if it is not easy to work hard in a first-tier city, happiness can still be more than tiredness.

As Takeshi Kitano said:

Although it is hard, I will still choose that kind of hot life.

Mr. Lin Qingxuan, a famous writer, was born in a poor family.

When he was a child, his dream was to sit at home and write and send it out, so that others could send the money in.

But his father slapped him harshly, "How can there be such a good thing in the world!"

Once, Lin Qingxuan, who was still in the sixth grade, was in a daze at a map of Egypt, thinking that one day he would also go to Egypt.

However, in exchange for his father's fierce criticism, "I promise you, you will not be able to go to such a far place in your life!"

In order to achieve these "absurd" life goals, since the third grade of primary school, Lin Qingxuan insisted on writing 500 words a day, 1,000 words in middle school, 2,000 words in high school, and 3,000 words in college.

During his military service, in order to squeeze out time to write for two hours, he blew the trumpet at 6 o'clock in the barracks and got up at 4 o'clock.

He worked as a dock worker, set up a stall and killed pigs, but his dream of becoming a writer and traveler was always rooted in his heart.

Time pays off, and in the persistence day after day, he has realized his dream of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles.

At the age of 30, Lin Qingxuan's works had already won all the literary awards in Taiwan at that time, becoming the most prolific among Taiwanese writers.

The first time he went abroad, he went to Egypt, which was not open for sightseeing at that time, and it was very difficult to go abroad.

When his friends asked him what he was doing in Egypt, Lin Qingxuan replied:

Because my life is not guaranteed.

In "My Girlhood", Lin Zhenxin shouted a sentence that resonated with many people:

Only we ourselves know who we are, and only we can decide who we are.

I think so.

Most of those who truly live their lives have one thing in common, they will take the initiative to choose their own lives and persevere for it, rather than being pushed by life.

We are often accustomed to complaining and sighing, complaining that work and life are not satisfactory, but everyone's life is ultimately in their own hands.

Sanmao said:

The achievements of everything in the world are not accidental.

What kind of life you want to live and what kind of person you want to be actually comes from your choice.