2018 College Entrance Examination Essay Material: A person’s fastest pace is “persistence”

I was reading recently and came across an account that was quite touching.

When Shi Manqing, a poet of the Song Dynasty, was working as a general judge of Haizhou, he found that opposite the county government office, "the mountains are high, the roads are blocked, and there are no flowers to illuminate it."

One day, he had a sudden idea and asked someone to wrap peach pits in yellow mud to make pellets. In his spare time, he would throw them into the mountains one by one.

Over the past few years, the mountain has become full of flowers.

Later, Su Shi visited this place and wrote a poem praising: "Sitting on the empty mountain, the beauty blooms, relying on the sky to illuminate the sea with countless flowers." On the surface, the empty mountain harvests blooming flowers like brocade. On the surface, it benefits from the poet's whimsy and elegant taste. In essence, it is

From perseverance day after day.

For several years, no one in Qingdu could remember who participated in the throwing game, and no one could count how many peach stones ended up on the hillside.

However, what is certain is that without perseverance and repeated sowing and silent watching and waiting, there will definitely not be a surprise full of youth.

In fact, it is not the same for those who are determined to study, work hard and start a business.

"Careers are often made by perseverance and destroyed by impatience. I have seen with my own eyes in the desert that hurried travelers lag behind calm ones; galloping horses lag behind, while slow camels continue to move forward." As the poet said,

The road of life is long, and the competition is not about the speed of one place at a time.

In Caowangba Village, Zunyi, Guizhou, the old party secretary Huang Da spent 36 years and with perseverance and perseverance, he finally dug a water channel that "circled three major mountains, crossed three cliffs, and passed through three dangerous cliffs."

It has completely changed the fate of generations of people who have been short of water.

There is no overnight success in the world, let alone "power" that falls from the sky; only those who are not impatient and work hard towards the set goals can reach the other side of their dreams over time.

There is no beginning for extravagance, and there is an end for failure.

The word "persistence" is easy to talk about but not easy to do; it is not difficult to do it for a while, but it is difficult to do it for a lifetime.

Socrates once gave his students homework and asked them to shake their hands hundreds of times every day.

As a result, all students were able to complete the task on the first day, but only half were able to persist after a month, and only Plato was still persisting after a year.

In reality, many people are very high-spirited when they first start a business, but during the long and arduous journey, their motivation and passion gradually fade away.

As everyone knows, even if you are slow, even if you encounter setbacks, as long as you keep working hard and work hard for a long time, you will eventually encounter beautiful scenery.

Persistence can be said to be a vivid footnote of dreams.

Of course, perseverance does not mean moving forward blindly without discerning the direction and regardless of reality.

If the direction is correct, no matter how slow you move, you will eventually arrive; if the goal is missing, no matter how fast you move, you will never get what you want.

Today, with the rapid development of the economy, the "career map" is rapidly being refreshed, and people are faced with more career choices and a faster pace of life.

In this context, some people believe that accumulation and persistence have become outdated, and that hard work has no future.

Therefore, they pursue quick success at the fastest pace, open online stores to make money and then become shop owners. When "Internet celebrities" become popular, they rush to live broadcast... In their impetuosity, they fall into a cycle of inefficiency and hectic step by step.

For individuals, if they do not reflect on their own position and do not pay attention to process accumulation, they will inevitably come up with nothing.

The slowest pace is not a step, but a wandering; the fastest pace is not a sprint, but persistence.

In the past, Saihanba, Hebei Province, had no birds and yellow sand covering its face. Now it has lush green trees, clear sky and clear water. This green miracle reflects the persistence of Saihanba people for more than half a century.

"Everything is precious and lasting."

The persistence of Rigongyizu is always the golden key to open the door of dreams.