Topic: Don't make excuses.

One day, I was late for school and was criticized by my teacher. I said, "Because of the traffic jam." The teacher said, "You should make arrangements in advance. Don't make excuses for doing something wrong! "

At that time, I felt a little wronged and thought the teacher was too strict. Later, I thought, "Don't make excuses for doing something wrong" is harsh, but it is good for people. It urges people not to avoid mistakes and shirk their responsibilities, but to be a self-motivated and responsible person.

Usually, people always like to make excuses when they do something wrong. When they find an excuse, they will feel that they are wrong and feel at ease. In fact, this is a kind of performance that is not strict with oneself and lacks self-motivation. If the composition can't be handed in, it will be an excuse that there is no composition material; If you fail in physical education, you will excuse your poor physique; If you don't do the cleaning duty of the class, you should go home early on the pretext of having something at home; If you are late for class, you will use the traffic jam as an excuse ... it seems that you have found an excuse, and you have lost your responsibility and escaped criticism. You know, the result is that you have no motivation to make progress.

Successful young people do not make excuses for their mistakes. When Lu Xun was a teenager, he studied in San Tan Yin Yue and was criticized by his teacher for being late for class. But instead of making excuses, he made up his mind to go out early and quietly correct his mistakes. In order to remind myself often, I specially wrote a word "morning" on the upper right of my desk. Lu Xun's strict demands on himself were the basis of his later becoming a great writer.

Making excuses for mistakes has always been opposed by upright people. Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period, severely criticized two students who made excuses for their mistakes. This is recorded in the Analects of Confucius, and Ji will attack Zhuan Xu. At that time, Ji Kangzi, a strongman of Lu, wanted to wage a war of aggression against a small country, and two students of Confucius were serving as retainers of Ji Kangzi. Confucius called the two students and asked them why they attacked Zhuan Xu. The students said that Ji Kangzi was afraid that his descendants would suffer because the city wall was too strong. Confucius immediately reprimanded the students: "A gentleman is sick, and he must do what he wants." An upright gentleman hates people who make excuses to cover up their wrong behavior. You see, Confucius hates making excuses to justify his mistakes.

If a young man doesn't make excuses for his mistakes, he will become a trustworthy and educated person.