January 3rd Diary - On Learning
If people don't learn, they can't be ambitious. To have heard something so many times that one can repeat it back.
We naturally went to school at the right age, and our parents were very serious about choosing schools and teachers, teaching us to write and draw with strokes, and teaching us to read and sing word by word. From the moment we remember, we were silent in front of the book and on the table. As a child, learning is invincible and can transcend everything. If there is a top student in the family, it must be the pride of the whole family. Me too. Children who only have learning in their eyes are the love of all parents and teachers.
The excellent results can cover up all the flaws.
Why, because, all believe, learning = future.
Of course, I don't deny it, because I am a beneficiary of learning. For as long as I can remember, I have grown up in glory.
I have never denied that learning is a lifelong undertaking. Because of this, I was able to pursue my studies without distractions: elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, and graduate school.
Compulsory reading textbooks for junior and senior high schools, classics, forced learning, enriching but unwilling. But after all, a lot of knowledge is forced. Dry goods? Let's take it a long way. Otherwise, how can I understand so many poets and writers who are ambitious and difficult to pay, how can I know the changes of light and shadow, how can I know that the dirt in life is the result of chemical changes, how can I appreciate the beauty of mathematics in nature, how can I advance to the world today, and open my mouth and close my mouth in foreign languages?
From my own point of view, I can only admit that all the studies before university, although very beneficial, are too utilitarian. Countless exams also didn't give me time to think about the reasons and think about the future. In other words, at that time, all the future was on the test paper, and success or failure was only the proportional relationship between the checkmark and the fork on the paper. I wanted to go to a good junior high school in elementary school, I wanted to go to a good high school in junior high school, and I entered the best high school, so I took a breather in the endless competition and tried my best. lived up to my time, and I was worthy of myself and all the people who were looking forward to me at that time.
It's just that even though I was young at the time, I could realize that the second soul in me was longing and shouting. I am also grateful to my mother for not forcing me to give up all entertainment activities because of the college entrance examination. I am grateful for my hard work in exchange for a university with a good environment for living and learning, so that I can go further.
Yes, I love everything about undergraduates.
Maybe I don't express my emotions, but I always feel indifferent and noisy. Of course, this is off topic.
I really started to study on my own in my sophomore year.
Unload all the burdens of your freshman year and let yourself be pure. I walked into the library by chance and took the initiative to borrow some famous books for the first time. I still remember the first book I borrowed, which was "Love Letters". It was winter, and I still remember that afternoon, I carried a small stool, sat on the balcony, and it rained lightly for a week, and it was sunny that day in Hangzhou. The book is delicately packaged, and I am wearing loose pajamas and opening a hole, which I will take as the door of knowledge and slowly open it.
An unexpected treat.
Since then, my reading has broadened. I finished reading "Dream of Red Mansions", which I hadn't read for ten years, and I also began to read some books with family and country feelings. It's not just about children. fell in love with Yan Geling's world affairs, Yu Hua's sorrow, Sanmao's heroism, the tragedy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the stubbornness of "The Kite Runner", the subtlety of "White Night Walking", the sigh of "Skin", and many fragments that I can't remember the name, but go deep into the bone marrow.
I am grateful for my learning. Thank you for being able to pay full attention while reading.
I think I really like the feeling of talking to the characters in the book, or the beauty of communicating with the author. I often rush to excerpt some sentences, but I keep telling myself that when I read a book, I am looking at the feeling of the soul. On those frenetic days, I would get up at about five every day, exercise, read, memorize words, read books, competitions, and movies. Learning allows you to experience different lives in a limited life, and when you practice, you can meet the people and stories in the book, you will stop at a certain scenic spot, and then recall what happened here. I am full and willing.
But please don't limit your reading to books, otherwise, be a nerd.
When it comes to reading, in the end, there is nothing to talk about. The conclusion is necessarily beneficial. A person who has not accumulated and has no knowledge has no way to become the ultimate winner. I have seen countless entrepreneurs who have gained fame and fortune, but they can't talk freely and express their experience in more precipitated words.
Nowadays, people from all walks of life are often confused - is there really a golden house in the book?
Many marketing accounts are rendering reading useless - I read a lot of books, but I can't support myself and can't live a good life.
Probably this society is really in a hurry.
Or maybe I'm really not in a hurry. The idea of Romanticism was ingrained in my head, too deep, too deep.
In the circle of friends, there are a lot of social people. After graduating from college, at the fork in the road of life, some people choose to practice, and some people choose to continue studying. And now, it has been more than a year since I went to research. Do you have self-doubt? Yes. Although I get up every day, I still say to myself that for myself, the current input will one day make you shine, tell myself that the cultivation of culture is beyond the reach of the charm of the skin, and tell myself that there is a golden house in the book.
I confess that, in spite of all my reading, I have not been able to utter anything as much as Bacon did on reading. But I'm sure I've really improved on a spiritual level. I'm willing to prove it that reading books can really improve your temperament. A perennial reader will be more open-minded, more humorous, and his personality charm will really rise rapidly.
As a British college student, or a current master's student, I am still exploring on the road of learning. And many people often ask - what can you do after learning English? Or, does English have English and American pronunciations? But many times, I want to refute them, and English is more than that.
When I stand in front of a sculpture, I can tell them what kind of stories have happened in front of this sculpture, and in front of the paintings in the exhibition, you can know what kind of story this painting tells, and tell them that there are so many bumpy and bizarre stories not only in China, but also in Western society.
If reading has changed me the most, then I would like to say that reading has given me the courage to speak. In the past, I changed from wild to silent, and then from silence to humorous and interesting person. People often wonder where I learned so many jokes that came out of my mouth, and I could follow some thought-provoking words after strange jokes.
I know that this is a gift of time and the result of learning.
Accumulate steps, and eventually become a great tool.
The scenery ahead is just right, don't rush, do it and cherish it.
When you feel broken, perhaps, you can also open a book and find a spiritual interlocutor.
Best wishes.