Life is a person's most precious thing, and everyone has only one life. A man's life should be spent like this: when he recalls the past, he will not regret wasting time; He will not be ashamed of his mediocrity. When he died, he could say: My whole life, all my energy, was dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world-the struggle for the liberation of all mankind. Man should live a full life, because sudden illness and tragic accident may end his life at any time. -Pavel Colta King.
This is a well-known saying. In the era of revolutionary war, this sentence inspired generations of enthusiastic young people to devote themselves to the revolutionary cause of the motherland. However, now, the years of bonfire are drifting away from us, and the heroic scene of shedding blood is rarely heard. We live in a harmonious, stable, comfortable and United society, and our life is happy. We no longer need to "fight for the liberation of all mankind". Is this famous saying out of date? In fact, many of us would have lost our revolutionary predecessors' high fighting spirit, full enthusiasm and infinite love for life if there were no life-threatening artillery fire and hunger that prevented survival. I have to admit, in today's society, luxury is prevalent, and people who love ease are not uncommon. We have a handful of money in our hands, or sit in the office doing repetitive work day after day, or spend boring time in entertainment places, or in front of computers or televisions. Sometimes we seem to be busy all day, but we don't know what we did in bed at night. Without an aim in life, there is naturally no motivation. Although we don't want to, we are really waiting for death.
Do I want to be such a person? No, I want to make my life meaningful. I want to make the most beautiful flowers in my life. Although I can't light up all mankind like Paul, I should at least light up my heart. So, the question is, why are there so many mediocre people in the world? What seems to be missing from their souls? The answer is simple-values.
Values refer to a person's overall evaluation and view of the significance and importance of the surrounding objective things (including people, things and things). The priority and severity of opinions and evaluations on such things is the value system. Values and value system are the psychological basis that determines people's behavior. Values are people's reflection of social existence. It is a criterion used by social club members to evaluate behaviors and things and choose their desired goals from various possible goals. Values are embodied in people's behavior orientation, evaluation and attitude towards things, the core of world outlook and the internal driving force of people's behavior. It dominates and regulates all social behaviors, involving all fields of social life. I was lucky enough to be admitted to Southeast University, which is an important period in a person's life and plays an important and decisive role in the future development and personal value. Here, I will form various ideas and behaviors, or various value orientations, which are exactly the values I formed during my four years in this university. Some of us may want to be rich, some want to be ordinary, some want to have a great future, and some want to live a happy life. There are various orientations, which are the embodiment of our values and will inevitably have an impact on me. In fact, the value of life is not reflected in an instant, but in a long period of time, we must think about all kinds of things independently. The result of thinking must be to make some corrections to your life path and move in the right direction until you realize your ideal. It can be said that values are like a dim lamp, guiding the road of life; Like an invisible hand, pushing you forward; Such as the beautiful scenery on the roadside, make your life journey more colorful.
A person's life is like ebb and flow, and it is difficult to decide whether to go to war. You should see the danger of falling to the bottom at the tide, and have the confidence and action to hit the peak at the tide. Lincoln had a rough life and suffered many setbacks. Who believes that the shoemaker's son will become one of the greatest presidents in history? Deng Xiaoping has experienced three ups and downs. When people criticized Deng, who would have thought that he would design a brand-new blueprint for China in a few years? When Bill Gates dropped out of school, who would have thought that he would become the richest man in the world? There are countless examples of this. What kind of miracle can happen in the world, the premise is only one thing, I am still alive! I have my own life, I have confidence, so I will work hard. Therefore, the first element in my values is: love your life and believe in your own strength. Loving life here does not mean being narrow-minded. Some people are alive and he is dead, and some people are dead and he is still alive. That's what I'm saying. We should keep an optimistic lifestyle, be full of passion and meet challenges. You don't know when you will encounter "big trouble" and you can't predict the outcome. What you can do is to prepare actively and shout with the fullest enthusiasm: Come on, I'm ready!
On the road of life, we will meet many forks in the road, and at these forks, we need to think here and make repeated choices until we make our own choices. Then we will walk through the crossroads we choose. Once we walk through the intersection of our own choice, we enter a road of no return. As the saying goes, "there is no turning back when you start working, and there is no regret medicine to buy." Therefore, the second element of my values is: make your own choices. The choice includes many aspects, including big ones, such as which university to choose, what job to look for, what girlfriend to choose, or bravely give up now and open up a world of your own. There are also small things, many seemingly trivial things in daily life need to make their own decisions. But one thing is clear, no matter how big or small the choice is, we must face it seriously. This is an attitude and a responsibility. The "butterfly effect" is very famous in the scientific community. A butterfly in the tropical rain forest of Amazon River basin in South America can trigger a tornado in Texas within two weeks with an occasional flap of its wings. Extending to life, any small choice may change your life. So: seize every minute of your life and make a good choice.
There are many things that play an important role in our life, including love, friendship and affection; There is success, fame and glory; Health, rights and trust. Everything has its value. Therefore, the third element in my values is: cherish the present and do what should be done at present. Indulge in fantasy, it will only waste your precious time and energy, and lower your horizons. It's not that you should not have lofty aspirations, but concentrate on doing the present thing, not thinking about the distant mirage, being a low-key person and doing high-profile things. Take every step seriously, and the end point is success. Of course, we can't just stare at the road and ignore the scenery around us. If we give up the beauty of life and desperately pursue our own things, we will only be exhausted by ourselves and abandoned by life. Learn to enjoy life correctly, and life will be colorful.
Although the roadside scenery is beautiful, we can't just enjoy it and forget to hurry, then we will always be latecomers, and the value goal at the end of the road will never be seen. People exist both as individuals and as members of society. Individuals always live in society. As a kind of "thing", they must and may meet the needs of society and others with their own attributes. A person's success can be said to be the realization of life value in a personal sense. When he shared the fruits of his success with the society, his success had a broad meaning, his thoughts were sublimated to a new realm, and his life value was reflected to a greater extent. Therefore, the fourth element in my values is: learn to give. Dedication is a sincere and voluntary act of giving and a pure and noble spiritual realm. A life that knows dedication is a magnificent life, and a person's life is dazzling because of dedication. Many caring people from Hong Zhanhui, Cong Fei and Zhang Pingyi have been praised by us. Jackie Chan and Bill Gates are admired by the world, not only because they have achieved great success, but also because they have devoted themselves to public welfare undertakings, are kind-hearted entrepreneurs and know how to repay the society. We believe that their lives are meaningful and successful. The meaning of life lies not in the length, but in the connotation. When you take away a part of your life, maybe time, maybe money, maybe some organs, or even life, your life is limited and extended, and your value is fully reflected at this moment.
Finally, the fifth element of my values has to go back to the words of Pavel Colta King at the beginning of the paper, although it is not for liberating the cause, but for the prosperity of the motherland! Looking up at the sky, the stars of history still shine! Our China is ancient and great, and our China is magnificent and eternal! Being in history, we are immersed in it and share the wonderful and sad past; Looking ahead, we will find that the road ahead is more distant and difficult. Standing in today's era, we look back: a nation needs not only a solid material foundation, but also a strong national self-confidence and self-esteem, and a broader and deeper national spirit to develop independently. The Yellow River flows in our veins, the Great Wall makes us forever strong, and the Shenzhou manned spacecraft makes our world infinitely vast. The national spirit of "unity, peace-loving, hard-working, brave and self-improvement", which has been inherited for 5,000 years, is waiting for us to carry forward and make our tomorrow more brilliant. For the prosperity of the motherland and people, we should ignite the fire of hope with passion and water the flower of success with the sweat of youth. Only by dissolving one's own ideas in the development of the motherland and closely linking one's life with the destiny of the motherland can such values be more meaningful. Only when the motherland is strong and the nation is revived, and every China person has dignity, will we dare to say in front of foreigners: I am from China!
Loving life, cherishing the present, grasping the direction, learning to contribute and embracing the motherland are the five most important aspects in my value system. Of course, in addition to these five aspects, my values also contain many things, such as being brave in innovation and setting up lofty ideals. When I am psychologically ready, I dare to say: My life is the most wonderful, even if it is stormy!