A person's life should be spent like this: when recalling the past, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of doing nothing. On his deathbed, he can say, "All my life and energy have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world-the struggle for the liberation of mankind."
-"How steel was tempered"
After reading the book How Steel was Tempered, I feel that the above sentence can best summarize the spirit of the book, and it is also appropriate as the motto of contemporary college students. Although there is no need to ask about the struggle of human liberation now, we are in today's magnificent, highly developed economy and highly developed information society, facing unprecedented severe problems in human society. Here, are we beginning to get confused and wonder what human beings really are?
In the final analysis, human beings are greedy, as a European minister said, every official is corrupt and everyone has a greedy nature. To put it bluntly, corruption not only refers to corruption and fraud, but also belongs to corruption when people use their rights to seek convenience. Examples of corruption can be used to preach at will. Let me give you an example for a moment.
As we all know, Jia Sidao, who took bribes and perverted the law in the Southern Song Dynasty and sold officials and titles, Yan Song, who was flattering and despicable in the Ming Dynasty, and Shenyang, who made a fortune in the Qing Dynasty, all left a notorious mark in history.
I believe many people have heard of John, governor of Connecticut, USA? 6? 1 How did Roland fall? This very young * * * and party member were elected as governors 10 years ago, which broke the record of the youngest governor in the United States and became the youngest governor in American history. They are regarded by Americans as * * * and the party's "stars of tomorrow", and winning the presidency will not be a problem. However, due to the corruption scandal, he finally faced a federal investigation and impeachment by the state legislature. The federal prosecutor said that during his tenure as governor of Kangzhou, Roland accepted free holidays, renovated his country house and other benefits, with a total value of $654.38+0.07 million. On February 23rd, 65438, Roland pleaded guilty to the federal judge. He said: "I cheated the IRS and didn't declare the gifts I received;" Not obeying the law, providing honest services, deceiving the people of Kangzhou ..., and a good political career ended only because of these, which is worth pondering by each of us.
Huang Yuxi, who once enjoyed a high reputation in the field of cloning research and was called the father of cloning by Koreans, suffered a fiasco in an academic fraud incident and lost his reputation. Huang Yuxi, born in 1952, has achieved great success in the field of stem cells: in 2004, he successfully cloned early human embryos for the first time and extracted embryonic stem cells from them; In May 2005, embryonic stem cells were cloned from patients' somatic cells, and on August 4, 2005, the world's first cloned dog "Snape" was successfully bred, which shocked the world scientific community and thought that South Korea was ahead of the United States in stem cell research, and it might win the first Nobel Prize for this research. However, since June 5438+065438+ 10/2, 2005, he has been caught in a series of scandals-the scandal that female researchers provided eggs for Huang Yuxi, which triggered a series of discussions on ethical standards. On June 6th, 2005, 65438+February 6th, Hwang Woo-suk's paper published in Science magazine began to cause controversy, and the Korean procuratorate intervened in the investigation. In June 5438+February 65438+May 2005, Hwang Woo-suk, the "father of cloning" in South Korea, admitted that the research results of stem cells were forged, and the stem cells published in the journal Science in 2005 did not actually exist. On the day of the announcement of the survey results, the once famous South Korean "father of cloning" publicly apologized and resigned.
The example of corruption shocked us and made us think deeply. Everyone hates corruption. Just giving an example will make people gnash their teeth. This shows that we are not insensitive to corruption, and we all advocate honesty. Then why can we stop the birth of corruption? There is a way, and that is to cultivate one's morality.
Self-cultivation means that individuals actively and consciously exercise and correct their ideological consciousness and moral quality, constantly eliminate and restrain their inner immoral desires according to the requirements of social moral norms, and strive to improve their moral cultivation to a perfect level.
Self-cultivation should start from childhood, do not do all evil, and pursue all good. Don't be small with good, don't be small with evil. A person should have the ambition of "being selfish for his country's life and death and escaping from every cloud has a silver lining", then his life will be beautiful and he will be respected by people.
I remember that I called a contemporary college student god in my college entrance examination composition. This college student is Xu Benyu, one of the top ten outstanding figures in China in 2004. Xu Benyu was born in a poor peasant family. 65438-0999 was admitted to Huazhong Agricultural University, majoring in agricultural economics. As a poor student, he got a lot of help. In 2003, he successfully passed the master's degree in Huazhong Agricultural University, but gave up the opportunity for further study and resolutely came to teach at Dashi Primary School in Dashui Town, Dafang County, Guizhou Province. He told us with his own behavior that life can be so meaningful. If tears are a kind of wealth, then Xu Benyu is a rich man. He made many people cry. He walked from the bustling city into the depths of the mountains. He shouldered poverty and loneliness with the immature shoulders of college students, and shouldered responsibilities that did not belong to him. Perhaps, a person's strength can't make a child's eyes full of sunshine, but love is expected. Xu Benyu lit the torch and stung our eyes.
Comrade Cong Fei, a young singer in Shenzhen, is enthusiastic about public welfare and selfless dedication. /kloc-Over the past 0/0 years, he has participated in more than 300 public welfare performances and accumulated 3600 hours of volunteer service. Accumulated donations to poor children 150 people, with donations of more than 3 million yuan. Although he is suffering from cancer, he still remembers to contribute to society and help others. He used his ordinary and great actions to show the broad mind of a literary and art worker who is willing to help others and help the poor. His advanced deeds were widely praised and aroused strong repercussions throughout the country. His death made many people cry, even burst into tears.
Greed is human nature, so is dedication. Integrity cultivation is not empty talk, nor is it unattainable. Cultivate one's morality in dedication and cultivate one's sentiment in dedication. Everyone should "save three times a day and not be unfaithful to others?" Don't believe in making friends? Pass it on without learning, so the distance from the "saint" is not far.
College students are the successors of the socialist cause, and it is very important to cultivate integrity if they want to become the pillars of the country. In the last sentence, they are indifferent to fame and fortune, and the breeze is self-righteous; Frank and clear, upright and upright, born in the chest.