Dear Child Jack,

Time flies, the little little dot that was once in your arms has begun to grow up, and you have grown up yesterday! I used to expect a lot from you, hoping that you can have all the happiness you can have. But when you are about to start your middle school life, as a father, I still want to talk to you about a few words, please read it carefully, maybe you will think that we have a generation gap, and you are impatient to listen to my nagging. But I still need to tell you some of the experiences of my youth.

A few years of indulgence in youth may be exchanged for a lifetime of humility!

Today's children are fond of a few celebrities with low education but successful careers, which are used to silence their parents' bitter mouths.

However, the fact is: such people are only a minority, and most children who don't like to learn find that they have exchanged a few years of crazy youth for a lifetime of humility and bottom.

Nowadays, when some children talk about reading and enduring hardships, it is like talking about the change of color of a tiger, and they are afraid to avoid it.

A group of girls who don't learn and don't know how to get together, known as so-called sisters, think that with sisters, there is the whole world. They talk about delicious food, clothes, cosmetics, shopping, watching handsome guys, and chasing idols;

And a group of idle boys got together, known as the so-called buddies, thinking that with buddies, there would be the world. Together they skip classes, smoke and drink, play poker, play games, watch beautiful women and even ...... I thought this was madness, this was the youth that should be.

They look down on good students who don't know how to wear makeup, can't dress up, and only know how to read all day long. He also scolded those good students for being nerds, scolding them for being stupid and only knowing how to read. As everyone knows, after two or three years, good students are full of wealth, enter a prestigious school, and step into another higher stage of life, but they have to consider going to a vocational school to learn a craft or technology, and even consider where to work to make a living.

There is a classic dialogue between father and son in China, which tells us the big difference between studying hard and not reading.

Soon after the son started school, he asked his father, who was a farmer, why people should study. My father said that if a small tree grows for a year, it can only be used as a fence or as firewood. A 10-year-old tree can be made into purlins. At 20 years, the tree can be used to make beams, pillars, furniture, and if a child does not go to school, he can herd sheep at the age of 7, and when he grows up, he can herd a large flock of sheep, but he can basically do nothing but herd sheep.

If he graduates from primary school, he can use some new technologies to farm in the countryside, work as a security guard at a construction site in the city, or become a small trader and hawker, and the knowledge of primary school is sufficient; if he graduates from junior high school, he can learn some mechanical operations; if he graduates from high school, he can learn a lot of mechanical repair; if he graduates from university, he can design high-rise buildings and railway bridges; if he graduates with a master's degree and a doctorate, he may invent and create some things that we did not have before.

"Got it?" said the son.

Dad asked again: Herding sheep, farming, and being a security guard, is there a shame in being a person?

Dad said: Son, there is no shame. They don't steal or rob, they work to earn money and feed their children and parents, and there is no shame at all.

It's not that you don't go to school, or that it's useless to go to school less. Just like a small tree for a year, it is useful, but not as useful as a big tree. It is also useful not to read or to read less, but the less they contribute to society, the less money they make. If you study more, you spend more money and spend more time, but you make a lot of contributions, you earn more money, and your status is high.

That conversation left a deep impression on his son, and from then on, he would make the best choice without coercion or inducement in his studies.

When a person is a young student, he chooses to fall in love when he can learn the most, and chooses comfort when he can endure hardships the most.

What does it mean to endure hardship?

When you complain that you are already working hard, please look at the poor children in the poor areas, they do not have enough to eat, they do not have warm clothes, their feet are cold, and they gnaw on their nests; please think of the teachers who have been greedy for the morning and dark for decades; please compare those migrant workers who are overdrawn but still have no food!

Is it hard to study in a classroom with air conditioning and hot water to drink? Rest in a bedroom with air conditioning and a hot bath? Can you be considered to be suffering when you have the right clothes to stretch out your hands and eat and open your mouth?

In a letter to his son Andre, the famous writer Lung Yingtai wrote: I ask you to study hard, not because I want you to compare your achievements with others, but because I hope that you will have more choices in the future, choose meaningful and time-bound work, instead of being forced to earn a living.

Yes, you are originally very good, as long as you study carefully, you have a lot of choices, otherwise you can only be forced to make a living.

Although reading books cannot bring us more wealth, it can bring us more opportunities!

You may ask, "I am working hard now, is it too late?" My answer is: "I said it's too late, won't you stop studying?" You should shift your focus from asking "can't I have time" to studying hard. Sometimes the more you think about it, the more you can't accomplish anything. If you set the goal and calm down, there will always be results.

So in the next time, whether you are in junior high school or high school, don't ask if you have enough time or what foundation is good. These are secondary. The main thing is that you have to endure hardships from now on and start working hard.

Children, God has been kind to you and has given you a superior life, please don't restrain your fighting spirit, and God has given you a lot of responsibilities, and you can't wear out your confidence in yourself and the courage to struggle.

When you want to give up, you must think of those who sleep later than you, wake up earlier than you, run harder than you, and have higher talent than you, who have already run in the morning light to the distance that you can only look at.

Therefore, please don't choose comfort when you can endure hardships the most, no one's youth is walking on the red carpet. Since you dream of becoming the self that others can't reach, you should choose your own path and make efforts that others can't reach!

Therefore, you can't choose to give up when you should study, you must cherish and work hard at the age when you should study!

Mom and Dad will also accompany you to study together and meet the possible ups and downs of the future together, you are never working hard alone!

You are the eldest child in our family, and you are also a role model for your future brothers and sisters, and a great man once said, "The power of example is endless!"

……

A father who has just grown up with a child

A father who loves you very much

A father who is learning

Love your Father

Two thousand and one summer