Hello everyone! The topic of my speech today is: Ideal holds up college students in the new century.
According to the survey, nowadays college students are more realistic and want to realize their own value, because we all have our own dreams and ideals.
The ambition of my youth and my longing for a better future have never been extinguished in my heart, but I have been working hard, and my efforts and sweat have brought me autumn harvest, and all this is just the beginning, a prelude to a magnificent movement. Our birthday is the starting point of life, the stream is the starting point of the sea, the seed is the starting point of hope, the gravel is the starting point of the tower, and a day is the starting point of the year. Yuan Ye of life, the starting point of life journey, is everywhere. Finding a good starting point means finding the right direction for success.
Reality always seems cruel, and the gap between ideal and reality sometimes makes us feel lost. I remember a writer once wrote in an article: When I was a child, someone asked me what my ideal was, and I always replied proudly: "I want to be a scientist when I grow up." Twenty years later, if someone asks me about my ideal again, I will calmly say, "Be an editor." I admire my courage when I was a child, and I admire my sobriety now. After all, 20 years have passed, and my ideal has completed a long journey from fantasy to reality. It is no longer out of reach, but within reach. As a knowledgeable and intelligent college student, we should be able to make our own wise choices, that is, face the reality, accept the reality and truly set our own correct goals.
Of course, the ideal should be practical, and we can achieve it through hard work. A story suddenly occurred to me. This story was quoted by Song Meiling in his speech to the US Congress in 1943. The story goes like this: Two thousand years ago, there was an ancient Buddhist temple near the Mount Hengshan platform. A young monk came here to practice. He sat cross-legged all day, folded his hands and murmured, "Amitabha, Amitabha." He reads Buddha day after day because his ideal is to become a Buddha. The master of the temple then took a brick to grind a stone, and kept grinding it day after day. The young monk sometimes looks up to see what the old monk is doing. The host just kept grinding stones with bricks. One day, the young monk couldn't help asking the master, "Master, why do you grind stones with this brick every day?" The host replied, "I want to use this brick as a mirror." The young monk said, "bricks don't make mirrors." The host smiled and said, "You can't become a Buddha by reciting Buddha's name all day." What does this Zen-filled ancient oriental story give us? What? I believe that every student present today will understand that we should have ideals, but we should also put them into action and let practical actions implement them. Only in this way can we walk on the road with the rhythm of youth, shake the oars of youth, shout the songs of youth, bathe in the rising sun of youth, take the dream woven in our hearts, seize the opportunity, walk with confidence and smile, and never wait.
We are fortunate to live in the ivory tower of the university. People outside want to come in and people inside want to go out, but from the whole society, the university is still a mysterious spiritual paradise.
Why don't all of you here give it a try, compare our ideal to a ray from now on, then cut it into several sections, regard that unreachable ideal as the endpoint that we can reach with our feet in the near future, and then cut, walk, walk and cut again. One day, the deep and shallow footprints behind us will become the steps of our life leap.
Our college students in the new century should firmly believe that they will not have nothing, insist on expressing themselves, dare to communicate and write their confidence on their faces. On that day, we will definitely become the protagonists on the social stage.
College students in the new century should hold up their ideals and light the lights in their hearts. Carefully plan study, plan growth and design life.
College students in the new century, let the eagle perched in your heart soar, sweep the smoke in the street, transcend your fragility and confusion, soar towards the ideal highland, the fiery red sun, the blue sky and the tomorrow dominated by us without regrets.