New Year's inspirational message: tall and straight like a tree, as stubborn as grass.

New Year's inspirational message: tall and straight like a tree, as stubborn as grass.

Yu Minhong, the chairman of New Oriental Group, once used the story of “trees and grasses” to vividly describe the attitudes and standards of being a person in the national inspirational speech. He believes that there are two ways of life.

The first way is to live like grass. Although you are still growing every year, but you are a grass after all, you absorb the rain and the sun is shining but the people can step on you but people will not suffer because of your pain. People who are suffering will not pity you because you are stepped on, because people themselves do not see you, so each of us should grow like a tree, even if we are nothing now, but as long as you have the seeds of the tree, even if you are stepped on In the middle of the soil, you can still absorb the nutrients of the soil. You may not grow up in two or three years, but in ten years and eight years, you will be able to grow into a towering tree. When you grow into a towering tree, people can see it in distant places. You come close to you, you can give people a green shade, you can help others, even if people leave you, look back, you are still a beautiful landscape tree on the horizon - living is a beautiful scenery, still a pillar of talent It’s the standard of living and the standard of growth for every classmate advocated by Yu Minhong!

After listening to this evaluation, perhaps many people will make a mistake for the grass, and think that the example of Lao Yu is a misunderstanding of the spirit of Xiaocao. From an early age, we have memorized the poems of "popping from the original grass, one year old and one dry, the wildfire is not burning, the spring breeze is born again". Tagore once wrote in his poem: "The footsteps of the grass are small, but it has the land under the feet!" In all the plants, the grass can be said to be the least demanding in the world, and it is purifying and purifying all the time. Natural environment. All seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the flowers are open and thankful, the leaves are dry and fall, only the grass, in the spring, summer, autumn, frost, winter snow, consistently show the eternal green. You can't see "Yaocao Hebi, spring into Wulingxi", summer "Jiangyu 霏霏江草齐", "Autumn jiangnan grass is not withered", winter "but cold smoke and grass condensate". The plain levee, the shore of the squat, the head of the mountain... The sleek green scorpion, then the sky, connected to the ground, brought the earth to life and brought people angry. "Less demand, more dedication." What kind of spirit does life need?

Obviously, whether it is a big tree or a small grass, they all play different roles in nature and play their irreplaceable functions. In this sense, our standards of being human and growing cannot be based on a single choice of one or the other, blindly from a standard or a single value evaluation system.

The New Year’s bell has already sounded, I wish you all a happy new year and the good luck of the Year of the Tiger.