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Xin Wei turned over the

Xin Wei turned over the

By GUILLERMO ZAVALAPublished 3 years ago • 3 min read

Xin Wei, 30, is a head nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit of a Grade-three hospital.

Xin Wei graduated from secondary school at the age of 18. That year, she and her classmates were interning at the hospital and waiting intently for arrangements, when the school received the devastating news that the four-year classes would no longer be assigned. With no access to a hospital and the appalling low pay of a private clinic, Xin Wei had to leave her profession and apply for a job as a salesperson in a communications company.

Unsuccessful people treat life with nothing more than two attitudes: conform to or fight. And the unfulfilled girl Xin Wei hold a breath in her heart, she felt that she did not get the life she wanted.

So she made a decision: take the college entrance exam.

The work pace of the communication company is tight and the tasks are heavy. Because of the assigned tasks, Xin Wei is busy every day. After work, she is often too tired to speak. Back to the rented dwelling, she hurried to eat the steamed buns bought on the road with plain water and began to study on the table. The room was narrow, the night light dim like a slide, day after day reflected the old walls and the girl's back, winter covered with three layers of thin quilt, hot summer feet soaked in the basin.

Xin Wei turned over the book twice, but still felt that time was passing exceptionally fast, because it was time for the college entrance examination.

On that day, she sat in the classroom with many students to answer questions. In two days, she had five papers, cultural courses plus specialized courses, and handed over the accumulated knowledge of four years of technical secondary school and one year of self-study.

After two months of waiting, Xin Wei was lucky enough to get the admission letter from Shandong Medical University.

On the day she got the notice, Xin Wei danced with excitement.

She quit her job a week before the start of the semester and was able to save enough money for a year's tuition and living expenses.

In the university, Xin Wei was the most diligent student in her class. She got up at six o 'clock every morning and went to remote places to read aloud with a word book in her arms. She insisted on finishing the homework assigned by the teacher every day.

Despite her efforts, Xin Wei was not able to stay at the hospital where she practiced when she graduated from university. First, there were only a few places in the hospital, and second, the school was full of outstanding students who were good at dancing.

Later Xin Wei in an interview, with brilliant oral English was admitted to a hospital.

Life in the hospital was very busy. In addition to work, almost all of Xin Wei's other time was filled with various examinations in the hospital. The same group of students complained, and gradually she spent her remaining time on love. Xin Wei silently clutched her books and prepared for the on-the-job postgraduate exam.

On the day she graduated from graduate school, Xin Wei took the vacation she had saved up and went to Qingdao. She grew up loving the sea, and at 26, she was going to treat herself.

These three years, Xin Wei in the work with excellent professional quality from the pediatric surgery of the general nurse transferred to pediatric internal medicine to do the head nurse, at the same time, Xin Wei married in this year has a baby.

A year later, Xin Wei was transferred to the icu, and two years later, she became the youngest deputy director of nursing at the hospital.

Do you think I wrote this story about Xin Wei to prove that "there is no shortcut to life, only reading is the truth"?

That's not true.

What I want to say is that we are not the kind of people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, who have no father and no other support, and who have to work harder in order to get closer to the life they want.

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    Written by GUILLERMO ZAVALA