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Raise your flag

The ideal is a bright flag, in the corridor of life soughing, looking at the distant walls of this bright color, we are more determined to grow.

By Martil Guevara Published 2 years ago 3 min read
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Raise your flag
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I once scoffed at the abstract concept of "ideal", who said that success must have ambitious ideals? I have no ideals, but still "mixed" into the prosperity of it? However, when failure after failure hit me, a series of confused me, friends, classmates a little progress touched me, I suddenly understood that individuals need ideals. Because of the ideal, Ma Qiang from the ordinary class with their own down-to-earth into the experimental class; because of the ideal, Zhang Yuqi all day with books still enjoy themselves; because of the ideal, Tang Xiaoxiao can adhere to the day after day practice, but never stop because of fatigue ...... They all seem to be like a poem written: "I am root, a lifetime underground, growing silently, down, down ...... I believe that there is a sun in the heart of the earth." So, the idea is the candy that sweetens the way you chase it.

High school is a smokeless battlefield, where countless tragedies are staged and countless heroes are born. Of the outstanding alumni of Fanzhong, all of them have a pair of invisible wings. This pair of wings took them out of the campus, high school students can continue to pursue the height of their own life so that they stand out; with the ideal, high school students can face failure with perseverance, and then finally usher in the brilliant; with the ideal, high school students can accumulate, and then in the sea of people to find their position, show their style ... ... ...So, the ideal is the paintbrush, colorfully decorating your view of the boring high school life.

Ideals also apply to life.

In the third year of King Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, a horse was chosen by Master Xuanzhuang to take the path to India via the West. Meanwhile, a donkey was pulling the mill.

Seventeen years later, the horse returned to Chang'an with the Buddha Trail, while the donkey was still pulling the mill.

Let's compare what the horse and the donkey have gained during these 17 years; the horse has gone on a fabulous journey, walking across vast deserts, crossing mountains high into the sky, stepping over meadows, and climbing over snowy mountains ...... while the donkey? The donkey is still standing in the same place, circling the mill all day long.

The horse and the donkey had traveled roughly equal distances, and while the horse was heading towards the West, the donkey did not stop even one step. The difference was that the horse and the master genuflected had a distant goal, and they consistently followed it, while the donkey, however, was blindfolded and spent his life circling the mill, so he could never walk out of the narrow little mill.

This story taught me that life needs ideals. With ideals, Sima Qian made the great work "The Records of the Grand Historian"; with ideals, Stephen Hawking made a great leap in physics by steadfastly orienting himself in the torture of illness; with ideals, the Chinese people heroically washed away the humiliation of being enslaved for a hundred years and achieved the birth of New China and the rise of the Chinese nation! Therefore, the ideal is a bright light that leads us to create a new world.

Dumas said, "Life without a goal is like sailing without a compass," and Goethe once said, "The important thing in life is to set a great goal and resolve to achieve it."

So, my friend, if you do not yet have an idea, please make sure you raise the flag of your ideal in time; if you already have an idea in mind, please walk firmly in the direction of the flag.

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