Yu Minhong's Motivational Speech
There are two ways to live, the first is to live like grass. You are grass after all, even though you live and grow every year; you absorb rain and sunlight, but you don't grow much. People can step over you, and people will not suffer because you suffer; people will not come to pity you because you have been stepped on. After all, people themselves do not see you. Therefore, each of us should grow like a tree. Even if we are nothing now, as long as you have the seed of a tree, even if you are stepped on in the middle of the dirt, you can still absorb the nutrients of the dirt and grow up by yourself. You may not grow much in two or three years, but in ten, eight, or twenty years, you will grow into a big tree, and when you grow into a big tree, people will be able to see you in distant places; when you approach you, you can give people a piece of green, a piece of shade, and you can help others. Even after people leave you, look back, you are still a beautiful scenery on the horizon. Trees are beautiful landscapes when they live, and they are still pillars when they die. To be useful both alive and dead is the standard of being and growing up for each of our students.