| If you have ever, in the night, in the darkness outside your room, stared at the twinkled stars in the sky, have you felt how mysterious they are? As far as the clouds don’t cover them, they are above your head silently, looking at you from above your life. Maybe, they stand for the eternal fate in the whole world and universe. Fate is like the river in the night. It contains therein living and life of every one of us. Nobody can escape fate completely. But we must make efforts for our own fates.
One’s soul. What’s soul? It is higher than mind, is one’s holiest quality.
Thought and action. From now on, we need to think about out own lifetime and to look for and create by degrees unique meaning of everyone’ life. Meaning of life and living is created by everybody himself or herself. Before he has created life meaning, life is meaningless. Moreover, meaning of man’s living and life needs accomplishing through what he does. So you can see, many people, due to idleness, never think or choose initiatively and they spend their lifetime in blankness and void. They do nothing and have nothing to fill up the void of their life to make it full. Even though they have a lot of money, will they feel happy? In our lifetime, we have incalculable things worth doing and there is no end of it. There is boundless pleasure waiting for us to find by ourselves. Although life itself is sometimes not satisfying, can’t we say that in any sort of life, as long as we are willing to find, there is the existence of happiness? The world is wide and the space that it offers every one of us is also wide. Think, take actions, get ready for better life and go to find the mystery and surprise of life and the world!
At any rate, we should try in order to become a real human being. Our dream for life is the impetus of our lives. Those who have no dreams or are afraid to dream will lose their living. What kinds of suffering and hardship there are in life, we must remember, in our hands, there is hope all the same. We must love our life. Whether life is happy and whether life is meaningful depends completely on our own. What is hope? It is the reason that can persuade one to live.
A real human being is a great person. He or she isn’t a finished person. It is also different from the often heard words or appellations like example, model and advanced person. One day when you grow up, if you are able to say to yourself one day that, “although my life is not finished, although I am a person that have made a lot of mistakes, although not all people admit what I have done, I have faced life sincerely, I genuinely hope to do things better, for my own as well as others’ lives I do what I can do, so I think I feel no regret for the appellation ‘human being’, I feel proud of my self.” At this moment, you will believe that your self is great.
If one has love for life, he will realize this love on some people. His own life and these people’s lives compose the carrier of life’s love.
Remember, even if we can’t change drought of earth, we can’t in the least let our souls dry up. If one stops thinking, stops imagining, stops feeling and stops creating, then he has already been dead actually. Rainwater on the earth is impossible for us to control, but in the heart of every one of us, as long as you try devoutly, keep your heart not contaminated by idleness and avarice, keep its vigor and youth, then there in your heart, in your deep heart will down come timely rain, and it will keep moist and won’t dry up. Let’s believe that life of every one of us is a surprising process. If only we try to live, there is a gain. Life won’t gain nothing. What you can gain is in your heart. It only needs you to dig and find out. One’s whole life is just like the universe, full of mystery and surprise alike and full of incomprehensible and unsolvable things in his limited life.
The process of everybody’s growth is a process of molding himself or herself. Probably, your self will decide what you will be. When a tree comes up at first, it is always slender. But when it has grown up, you will find how strong its life force is and how hard is its trunk. As we stand on the earth where we live, we are all trees. We take nutrition from around people, the society, the nature and from under feet. As last, what everybody will be like perhaps lies on this process. When you look up to the blue sky, you should feel your self is like a tree, you should try to extend your leaves to the higher sky.
? Power of dream. Dream is the prime mover of life. The first step is to think bravely. Not all the dreams and aims can be realized. But in the process of your pursuit of your every dream, your will gain something. The best way of doing one thing is: try to do it, but don’t always think about what you will get thereby, whether you will eventually achieve your aim. Thus, you can care no longer for too much gain and loss. Being swayed by considerations of gain and loss will restrict one’s motion and make him unable to do what he wants to do to the top of his bent.
What can we do? This is a topic that I want to talk about in calss but have no time to prepare. My idea is: as long as we dare to think, as long as we make untiring efforts, we can do anything that we want to do. Dream, live, try. I hope you can all blossom vigorously in a drought place like the flowers on cliff.
Life itself is more complicated and grander than all else. From early on, numerous people have started questing all kinds of mystery of life with the hope to solve them and answer them in their lifetime. But history has proved that nobody could prove he himself has already fully anwsered all the questions about life. But is such effort fruitless? All the progress that man has made till today are based on unceasing exploration.
Look, the world always looks so ruthless and cold, full of things that make us sad. However it is just the reason why people try to make change. As we grow, we must know that fortitude is an essential thing in life. People all consider that the society is worse, filled with inclemency. But we ought to bear in mind that everybody of us is living in the society, so all problems in the society are related to us. We should take responsibility for ourselves.
When you say you are happy, I am so gratified, for what a good life attitude it is! Though our life here is not agreeable, one shouldn’t lose the ability of his saying “happy”. First it is a faith. There is one force that is higher than all power. That is the force of religion. Religion, faith, self-confidence and hope, in Chinese version of all these words, there are one character “Xin”, namely, confidence.
It must be made clear that there is no eternal joy, no happiness that is not accompanied by agony. Living in this world itself should make one highly grateful. As the fact that only if there is black, there is white, just because agony exists, people know what joy is. That people’s standards for happiness are different leads to different identification of their life by people. Life isn’t easy and comfortable for anybody. Man’s life, how lengthy a journey it is, but also how short it is and how weak man’s life is. Cherish life, cherish your living, cherish everything that your have and try hard for life.
About friendship. Intimacy is not necessary the symbol of friendship. The ancients said, “The gentleman agrees with others without being an echo. The small man echoes without being in agreement.” It means that real friends are harmonious but not completely identical. Everybody keeps his own opinion, attitude and standpoint, not effacing their individuality just because they are friends. But among sham friends, perhaps they looks accordant with each other, being in close relationship in every aspects, but actually they don’t give mouth to their real thoughts, dreaming different dreams on the same bed. In your present age, friendship may be the problem that all of you care for the most. Nobody can tell you how you should make friends at all. You can only do in the light of your own principle. Those who can’t make you more active and more devotional are not real friends. Between friends, perhaps the most important thing is to respect mutually, being honest to each other. To care for your friends is to care for yourself. His happiness will finally become your happiness. The most lasting friendship must have been tested and there is no exception. All unstable things, after fire and flood, will all be torn to pieced. But for real heart-to-heart friends, even if you are ten thousand miles away from each other, the relation is still firm.
Don’t ask friends to do all for you.
Oftentimes, when I see you, see your joy and hear you singing, I can’t help thinking, what will your future be like? Will you then be happy as now? I am always imagining your looks when you have grown up.
Mountains belong to you, children. When you are standing on the top of the mountain singing, joy flows in your eyes. How simple is your joy! This kind of joy is just like the footloose happiness of weeds that grow in the wasteland. You standing on the mountain, your gazes seem intent to get across the far-away continuous mountain, overlooking the further distance, with a special dedicated look. Sometimes I feel therein are both perplex and aspiration. Mountain, not only the mountain is yours, but the world outside the mountain is also open to you. However, the only wing is dream, only brave dream can carry you to fly to the distance. Night is falling. Below the mountain, villages and towns are slowly immerged into this darkness. But the children are crying for joy, for they haven’t seen dots and dots of lamplight in the under town on the mountain in such a late night, as if they are stars having dropped onto the earth. We groped to climb down the mountain, walking towards the place that has lights …… We should sing for hope forever.
Author：Cong Feng
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