Contemporary college students are mostly young people aged 18 to 24. This stage is the golden age of life, the mature stage of their self-awareness, and the crucial period for the formation and establishment of their world outlook, outlook on life and values. Establishing a correct outlook on life will have a great and far-reaching impact on the whole life in the future.
So, what is the outlook on life?
Outlook on life is people's overall view and viewpoint on life, and it is the sum total of many concepts such as the essence, purpose, value, significance and road of life. Outlook on life is the product of certain social historical conditions and social relations, the ideology of a certain society or class, and the conceptual reflection of people's material and spiritual needs. People in different societies or classes have different outlook on life. The content of outlook on life includes happiness, bitter optimism, honor and disgrace, love, friendship, life and death, etc.
The outlook on life is optional. Different life choices determine different lives. Different choices show different attitudes towards life and different outlook on life. Life is like this. Faced with various choices, some people choose courage, while others choose cowardice. Some people choose greatness, while others choose smallness; Some people choose noble, while others choose mean.
"Serving the people wholeheartedly" is the inevitable choice of young students, and this slogan will never be out of date. "Serving the people wholeheartedly" is a new moral thought to meet the requirements of the times. This sentence was originally a speech for Zhang Side at the memorial service of the Central Guard Corps. Zhang Side was a soldier of the Central Guard Corps. 1933 take part in the revolution and work hard. 1September 5, 944, he was burning charcoal in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, and the charcoal kiln collapsed. He was buried and sacrificed for trying to push his teammates out of the kiln. Mao Zedong said in his speech: "Our * * production party and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the * * * production party are revolutionary ranks. Our team is entirely for the liberation of the people and works for the interests of the people. " In On the Coalition Government, he once again stressed: "The only purpose of this army is to stand closely with the people of China and serve the people of China wholeheartedly." Judging from the requirements put forward by Mao Zedong at that time, it should be said that this is a requirement for the revolutionary army, the New Fourth Army, the Eighth Route Army and revolutionary workers, and it is a very high standard.
"Serving the people wholeheartedly" embodies the fundamental requirement of socialist morality, the objective requirement of socialist economic foundation, the requirement of establishing and developing socialist market economy, the spiritual motive force of fulfilling professional duties and the highest standard to measure the right or wrong of professional behavior.
"Serving the people heart and soul" later became a high-level summary of the party's purpose in China. "Serving the people", after the founding of the People's Republic of China, has also been regarded as the motto and slogan of action by the party and government organs at all levels of the China Production Party and their staff.
Serving the people is the core of proletarian life values, the concentrated expression of socialist moral construction, and the important content of guiding young college students to establish correct ideas. The people are the creators of history, the masters of socialist society and the driving force of history. But in the current reality, some fields are immoral, and money worship, hedonism and individualism spread; Some party member cadres and Party cadres have lost their revolutionary will, and some have the right not to do things for the people, to abuse power for personal gain, to take bribes, and to seek various illegitimate interests. The concept of "serving the people" has faded and even been considered "outdated". These negative social thoughts have seriously penetrated into the minds of young college students, and some personal interests of college students, such as employment difficulties and the disparity between the rich and the poor in their families, have further prompted some young college students to be more realistic in thought, more utilitarian in action and more cynical in character, which has laid a great hidden danger for social development. Therefore, it is of great significance to educate and guide young college students to establish the outlook on life and values of serving the people wholeheartedly.
From the social point of view, youth is the most vital and energetic factor in society and a valuable human resource for national construction and social development. Establishing the consciousness of serving the people and enhancing their ability to serve the people will help young students make more contributions to society, correctly handle the relationship between the state, the collective and the individual, always respect the people, care for the people, love the collective and be enthusiastic about public welfare, and take serving the society as their own responsibility; It is also conducive to young students to face life with optimistic, positive and healthy psychology and behavior, to be kind to others and society, and to become socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, body, beauty and labor needed by society; At the same time, young students, as social activists, will use their own behavior to drive people around them. Strengthening the education of young students' thought of serving the people is an important way to improve the quality of the whole people.
Personally, in the relationship between man and society, man is both an object and a subject. As an object, people's contribution to society is of social value. As a subject, in the process of transforming social nature, we must realize our own value. On the surface, it seems that the life values of serving the people only emphasize the realization of social values. In fact, while realizing the social value of serving the people, one's own value has also been realized to the maximum extent, and the individual has been fully satisfied materially, especially spiritually. In other words, "serving the people wholeheartedly" does not ignore the realization of individual self-worth.
Confucius and his disciples had a conversation, which went like this:
Lutz, a disciple of Confucius, asked Confucius one day, "How can I become a gentleman?" Confucius said, "Cultivate one's morality to respect." This sentence means to cultivate, train and educate yourself with your heart. "Respect" is interpreted as prudence in ancient Chinese. Lutz said again, is that enough? Confucius said, "Cultivate one's morality for peace." This sentence means to cultivate, train and educate yourself before serving others. Lutz asked again, is this enough? Confucius said, "cultivate yourself to protect the people, cultivate yourself to protect the people, and make the people sick." This sentence means to cultivate, cultivate and educate yourself, and then serve the people, while cultivating yourself and then serving the people is not easy for even a saint like Yao Shun to do.
Young students who "cultivate self-cultivation, keep the family in order, govern the country and level the world" should pay attention to the construction of self-cultivation, take self-cultivation as the starting point and serve the people as the high-level pursuit. At the same time, the realization of personal value is always inseparable from social value. Young students should integrate their wisdom and ability into the collective wisdom and ability, serve the people and others with their wisdom and ability, work for the welfare of the people with their wisdom and ability, give full play to their wisdom and ability, respect their individuals and truly realize their life value.
It is not easy to truly serve the people wholeheartedly, which requires young students, especially young party member, to truly establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, truly stand on the people's side, take "serving the people wholeheartedly" as a belief, and put this belief into practice. Some people think that "serving the people" is something invisible and intangible, and it is an empty shelf. Serving the people is actually very simple: young students work hard to learn scientific and cultural knowledge and enhance their ability to serve the people, which is to serve the people; Actively participate in various activities organized by classes and schools to promote the smooth implementation of activities, which is to serve the people; Give a helping hand to those around you who need help, which is to serve the people; Properly handling some unfair and unjust problems in society is also serving the people ... In short, "serving the people wholeheartedly" is not a slogan, not empty talk, but a belief that we young students should always remember, and it is a real action!