1 Mary has been a shy and introverted little girl since she was a child. Her figure has always been too fat, and her face makes her look much fatter than she really is. Mary has a very prim mother. She thinks it foolish to make clothes beautiful. She always said to Mary, it's easy to wear a coat off, but narrow clothes tear easily. ? Mother always helps Mary dress like this. Mary never does outdoor activities with other children, or even goes to physical education class. She's shy and sensitive, and she thinks she and others are? Different? , completely unlikable.
When she grew up, Mary married a man several years older than her, but she didn't change. Her husband's family is very good and full of confidence in her. Mary tried to be like them, but she couldn't. Everything they do to make Mary happy will only make her flinch. Mary became so nervous that she avoided all her friends that she was even afraid of hearing the doorbell ring. Mary knew that she was a failure, and she was afraid that her husband would find out. So every time they appear in public, she pretends to be happy and often goes too far. Mary will be sad about it for several days afterwards. Finally, she was very unhappy and felt that there was no point in living any longer. Mary began to want to commit suicide.
Later, what changed the life of this unfortunate woman? This is just an expression.
Yes, a casual remark changed Mary's life. One day, my mother-in-law was talking about how she raised her child. No matter what happens, I always ask them to be themselves, she said. ?
? Keep it real! ? That's the sentence! In a flash, Mary found herself very upset, because she had been trying to adapt herself to a model that was not suitable for her.
As early as more than 300 years ago, the little-known British architect Chris Chang? Ryan was lucky enough to undertake the design task of Wen Ze City Hall. The young designer made full use of his rich knowledge of engineering mechanics and years of practical experience, and skillfully designed a scheme to support the ceiling of the hall with only one pillar. After more than a year of construction, the city hall was delivered for acceptance. However, the authorities thought that only one pillar supporting the ceiling could not guarantee the safety of the hall, so they ordered Ryan to add more pillars.
Ryan believes in his design, claiming? Is a strong pillar enough to ensure the safety of the hall? , and give relevant examples to demonstrate. Unexpectedly, his stubbornness and excuse angered the municipal officials and almost went to court.
Faced with various pressures, Ryan is in a dilemma: sticking to his own ideas means openly opposing government officials; Giving it up violates the scientific principle you insist on. Then he finally figured out a way to deal with this ignorance? Authoritative person? The best way to kill two birds with one stone He solemnly asked the builders to add four pillars to the hall. But these four pillars did not touch the ceiling, leaving a gap that a person could not detect when standing on the ground.
Time flies, more than 300 years have passed. For more than 300 years, city officials have changed batch after batch, but no one has discovered this secret, and the ceiling of the hall has never been in any danger. The pillar supporting the ceiling is still the original one. It was not until the end of the 1990s that the municipal government found a narrow gap between the pillar and the ceiling when it was repairing the ceiling of the hall. The top of the pillar in the middle was engraved with a line of small words:? Faith and truth only need one pillar. ?
She was born in a poor peasant family and dropped out of school at the age of twelve when she was in the fifth grade. Because she has always loved literature, whenever she is free, she finds out the books in her father's old box and greedily reads them in her hand.
When she was sixteen, her sister decided to go out to work to make a living. That day, she watched her sister's thin body carrying a bag heavier than her, struggling out of the field path, and a sadness came to her heart. If it weren't for the poor family, a few acres of barren land could not make a living at all, and my sister didn't have to go out to suffer. She secretly blamed herself for being useless and unable to share any burden for her family.
One day, after reading the last book in the box, she suddenly had an idea: why don't you just read other people's books and write them yourself? Maybe writing it can change your destiny. From that day on, she picked up a pen.
How incredible it is for a little girl with only five and a half years of primary education to write a book. Some people say that she has overreached herself, others say that she will not get any results after writing for ten years, and her family also opposes it in every way. Faced with all kinds of pressures, she chose to persist.
Because of the poor cultural foundation, I encountered many difficulties when I wrote it. If there are words that she can't write or words that she doesn't understand, she will look them up in the dictionary. She turned over a Xinhua dictionary that had been used for several generations.
Mountain people do a lot of farm work, so she always uses her spare time to write on the broken sewing machine in front of the window. Manuscripts are written in piles, and neatly bound manuscripts are more than a foot thick. Because there is no computer, every time she writes a novel, she has to revise and copy it many times. A novel with 300,000 words should be copied at least 1 10,000 words.
Her parents were moved by her persistent spirit, from opposition to full support.
After three years of hard work, she finally finished her first martial arts novel. She tried to contribute to the publishing house, but due to the shrinking martial arts market, this work, which took countless efforts to complete, was finally buried.
When my sister heard about it, she advised her to write a small draft. So, she tried to send a love story to the magazine, and after half a month, the manuscript was returned. The reason is: it doesn't conform to the magazine style.
Her parents were short of money and had no extra money to provide her with paper and pens, so she secretly went to the garbage dump to pick up waste, bought the cheapest toilet paper, cut it into pieces with a knife and bound it into volumes. In summer, there was no electric fan at home, and she was bitten by mosquitoes. There is no heater in winter, and my hands are as cold as buns. Once, when she was cutting paper, she was accidentally cut by a knife and shed a lot of blood?
In the past five years, she has created seven novels with more than two million words with tenacious self-study and unimaginable perseverance. However, due to the occlusion of rural information, the manuscript written has never found the husband's family. After years of painstaking efforts, she still got nothing. Everyone in the village laughed at her daydreaming, and some even advised her to talk about marrying friends earlier.
However, she doesn't want to get married or die? Second class? People, she wants to do something valuable. She believes that although writing a book has not achieved any benefits, at least doing what she likes is also a kind of enjoyment.
In the face of others' cynicism, she was sad and desperate, but after so many years of hard work, she must not give up easily.
Numerous failed submissions made her aware of the backwardness of handwritten manuscripts. So, she entered a cheaper computer college in Wuhan to learn typing.
She enrolled in an intermediate computer class. There are dozens of students in the class, most of whom have attended technical secondary schools or universities. Is she the only one? Pupils? . So there is a big gap between her and others in her study. At first, she didn't even know twenty-six English letters. After several sleepless nights, she memorized the letters and roots. A month later, the computer teacher announced the learning situation of the whole class. Others type more than 40 words per minute, but she can only type 15 words per minute. She realized that it was time for her to work hard and not waste limited time and her parents' hard-earned money. From that day on, she worked very hard Every day when I get on the computer, my hands fly on the keyboard. When she is tired, she doesn't rest. She sat with a sore back and didn't get up to exercise. At night, when she had a rest, she also made a cardboard box look like a keyboard, drew keys on it and kept practicing with her hands. On graduation day, she won the appreciation of the whole class and computer teachers at the rate of 1 17 words per minute, and left school with honor.
She wants to work hard for a few years and then buy a computer to re-create. However, it was suddenly written at home that her father's leg was injured and needed to be taken care of, and she was asked to go back to her hometown and continue to write with a pen. Although the road to writing is poor and hard, she is determined to win.
God helps those who help him. A year later, she received a manuscript edited by a publishing house and wanted to cast a work reflecting the lives of migrant workers. Two months later, she finally received the good news that the book was approved and published.
After the book was published, it attracted attention from all walks of life. People praise her? A model for changing fate? , said her spirit is worth learning. The district chief also personally sent a computer to encourage her to continue her creation. Now, she has walked out of the countryside through her own efforts and found a good job in a big city.
This person is Chen Jiayi, a peasant woman writer in Ezhou. The reason why she can realize her dream is because she insists on going her own way and takes the blows of others as the driving force of creation. Her perseverance is commendable. If she gave up when she was in trouble before, she would be mediocre in her life and never taste the sweet fruit. Therefore, no matter what you do, you can't give up halfway. Only persistence can succeed!