The Road Is Full Of Flowers After The Turn

Since he was a child, he dreamed of becoming an excellent athlete, but his parents didn't support him. In their view, the "right path" is to go through college regularly and then work in a stable career as a doctor or lawyer. To sober him up, his family cut him off financially.

At that time, he slept only four hours a day. To make ends meet, and pay for school, after a day of intensive training, he also dragged his tired body to drive a taxi to earn money. The double pressure of spirit and material, constantly swallowing his faith, the future in his eyes vaguer and vaguer.

One day, he drove in the heavy rain of the street, his heart in pain, looking at the empty street in the rain, but do not know where the runway of his life was. Ahead, a divided island appeared in his sight.

"Just hit it, and there will be no more pain or trouble," he thought. He slammed on the gas and raced down the island. Just before he hit, he suddenly made a sharp turn and stopped. He was not content to leave this world in obscurity.

Back in the cramped rented room, he lost himself in thought. After thinking about the pain, he took courage again and decided to go for it. After that, no matter what difficulties and dangers he faced, he never gave up his faith.

He became a famous marathon runner and set the first world record for crossing the Sahara Desert on foot.

He is Lin Yijie. Years later, as he recounted his experience on the stage of the Orator, he recounted that sharp turn. "Life takes a sharp turn," he said. "When you come to a dead end, you don't want to give up, you want to take a sharp turn because you will see a new runway after the turn."

British writer Steven Bogan once despairs not finding a runway in life. When he was a teenager, he began to be obsessed with words. He insisted on writing for more than ten years, but every time he put it out, he would either go silent or receive a rejection letter.

That day, looking at the box of rejection letters, he was so desperate that he wanted to give up. He ran out into the street, trying to drown his pain in the noise. Then there was a gust of wind and a $10 bill fell to his feet like a leaf. As he bent down to pick it up, an idea flashed through his mind.

He began his journey after handing over a $10 bill to a resident of a small town in Kansas. Whenever the bill changed hands, he would talk to the new owners and learn about their careers and lives. Before each parting, he asks how the other person plans to spend the $10 for the next "tracking."

In just one month, he followed the $10 bill through six states, meeting all sorts of people -- farmers, drivers, musicians, missionaries, bankers, nurses, veterans, and more.

After the trip, Bogan wrote a book about his experience, "Follow the Money: A Month of Ten-Dollar Bills." It was surprisingly successful.

The $10 bill was a sharp turn in his life. Not only gave him a strange journey but also let him in the failure of the writing road to see hope, to shed the cloud on the moon.

We are often like this, walking, standing on the cliff. If two eyes a black, they give up themselves, and can only fall into the boundless darkness. As Lin Yijie said, what you need at this point is not to give up but to make a sharp turn. Turn past, there is always a flower full path of the road that belongs to you.