Remember a mosquito in winter?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the outstanding female politicians in the world today, and her unpredictable image of the Iron Lady has left a deep impression on people. Angela Merkel was born in July 1954. She was an excellent girl since she was a child. She has a quick mind and a wide range of interests, and has always been a good student with excellent academic performance at school. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, little Angola confidently participated in the election for the president of the student union of the school. However, Angola, once regarded as a favored child, suffered a fiasco, and her classmates accused her of being unsmiling and lacking in affinity. Conservative and lacking in creativity, he is totally unfit to be the president of the student union. Little Angola couldn't accept criticism from others, and he was so sad that he didn't even want to go to school for several days. Angolan father Kasznar is a knowledgeable church pastor. He knows his daughter very well and loves her very much. Father has high expectations of her. In order to enable her daughter to treat life's setbacks with a correct attitude, Kasznar told her a short story about her own personal experience.

"One morning in the middle of winter, there was a cold wind blowing outside. When going to the toilet, Kasznar suddenly found a small black dot in the upper left corner of the mirror. When he looked carefully, it turned out to be a big mosquito. Slender feet, long mouth, striped abdomen, very ugly. He raised his hand to make a hard clap, but the mosquito fluttered its wings and circled twice in the air, stopping in the corner of the bathroom. ?

Suddenly, Kasznar felt vaguely touched and stopped chasing mosquitoes. In his mind, he has three reasons to keep it alive: first, it is a brave mosquito. It is freezing, and its tribal members have long since disappeared, but it can challenge its physical limits and gain a foothold in the harsh environment. Kasznar respects this life. Second, it is an energetic mosquito. After harsh natural selection, it is still strong and sensitive as usual, and this life has been a miracle. Kasznar cherishes such a miracle. Third, it is a mosquito that loves life. How can it live optimistically when all its peers have died?

Kasznar told his wife about her strange feelings, but she didn't agree. Her words forced Kasznar to rethink this lonely mosquito. The wife said, "If our bathroom is not as warm as it is in spring now, can this mosquito survive?" ? Obviously, this mosquito is a stupid mosquito. It longs for warmth and comfort and doesn't know that danger has come! Damn it! As he spoke, his wife picked up a can of insecticide and sprayed the bathroom thoroughly. As a result, the lonely mosquito fell to the ground in an instant, died without struggle, and did not give people the tragic feeling of heroic sacrifice. ?

After talking about this experience, Kasznar said to her daughter earnestly, "We have two completely different understandings and evaluations of the same lonely mosquito. Dear children, in life, when someone praises us as heroes or belittles us as bears, it is just that they impose some ideas on us, which does not mean that we are really great or small. Just like this lonely mosquito, fame can't change its attributes, we will always be ourselves! Don't be swayed by other people's tongues! " ?

Little Angola stared at his father with big eyes, and the clever Angola understood what his father was talking about. From then on, the little girl no longer paid attention to other people's evaluation, but continued to struggle step by step and succeeded step by step according to her own life ideal. First, she became a physicist with outstanding contributions, then entered the political arena, served as the chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party, served as a government minister, and finally became the first female chancellor in German history. When People interviewed the female prime minister, she proudly said, "What I will never forget in my life is the mosquito my father said. It helped me through many difficulties in my life. " ?

(Excerpted from New Horizon)