Pain is the best teacher of youth

Chapter 24 Set sail with dreams, let youth fly (2)
Don't forget the well digger when you drink water.Until now, I am still very grateful to Teacher Cheng. Without her, I would not be where I am today.She is a teacher, but she is also like a mother. She once said to me earnestly: "You are a child without an umbrella. When it rains heavily, people can walk slowly with an umbrella, but you have to run hard..."

To go to college, I used a loan of 4 yuan.For my family, this is simply astronomical, not to mention adding interest.In the past few years, I have been carrying this matter in my heart, which is both pressure and motivation.Before I went to college, I didn't know anything, I hadn't watched a few movies, and I didn't know any popular TV series.After arriving in Beijing, it was the first time I saw high-rise buildings, and it was the first time I took the subway. I blushed when talking to people...but I told myself that I must be strong.

In order to earn living expenses for myself, I have never stopped working since my freshman year.Some companies' commercial performances, or school performances, or as extras in movies and TV dramas, as long as there is an opportunity, I will not miss it.I often arrive at the gate of the studio at 5 o'clock in the morning and come back in the middle of the night. Even if I pay 20 yuan a day, I am willing to do it.

Most of the students in the class live in the city. Some of them are from very good families, and they don’t have to worry about food, clothing, and opportunities.I don't have all of these, I can only start from playing every small role.After the performance, if the director is willing to ask your name, that will be the greatest success.If the director can notice you, it means that there may be better opportunities next time.

In my freshman year, my good luck also came.CCTV's "Dream Theater" came to our school for a special show, and I happened to be selected and starred in a sketch.Unexpectedly, the response was very good.Later, I got to know a well-known host of CCTV, and he asked me to do a column with him.Frankly speaking, that experience taught me a lot.Now, I spend about one-third of every month filming. My life is non-stop work and work, and sometimes I can earn 1000 yuan a day.Without delaying both my studies and my career, I wrote a letter to my family, telling my parents that the 4 yuan loan would be repaid soon.I think they must be very happy to see it.

The more plays I acted in, the more I learned.In those roles, I slowly matured.After having such an experience, I also began to understand my parents, especially my mother.She has no education, but she has been working in the city these years. I can imagine how much hardship she has endured and how much courage she has.But this is life, real life!

There are no textbooks in the school's acting class.In class, the teacher teaches face to face, and the homework is to perform sketches, and rehearsals continue at night.Getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning to do exercises, practice exercises, connect lines, hang your voice, and say tongue twisters, it's exactly like a troupe, hard work but very interesting.

Nowadays, more and more people want to be actors, and for students like me, the chances of success are slim to none.Most of them start out as outliers, maybe just playing some inconspicuous soldiers, without any lines, only fleeting shots.However, I cherish every role, no matter how big or small, I put in 100% of my efforts to do it well, it is an opportunity for me to express myself and prove myself.I have played migrant workers, white-collar workers, intellectuals, third parties... all kinds of roles, I am only 23 years old, but these roles have given me too many things, making my mental age and experience far exceed the real one age.

A play is a kind of life.Every role is a special life experience, and I found my way of living in acting.I am very happy and very happy.From the countryside to the city, from ignorance to a professional actor, there is an element of luck, and more is the return of hard work.I think that's how life should be, and you can never stop moving forward.

Don't give up your fantasy.When the fantasy is gone, you can still live, but you are still dead. / American writer Mark Twain
Start where you can work hard
On July 1922, 7, in a poor farm family near Venice, Italy, a baby boy named Pierre was born.Two years later, the First World War broke out, and the flames of war spread throughout Italy.In order to survive, the Pierre family went through countless hardships and finally settled down in Grenoble in southeastern France.

Peel loved dancing when he was a child, and he wanted to be an excellent dancer.However, the real environment could not support his dream at all.You know, his father has to ride a horse up a high snow-capped mountain every day to collect ice cubes, transport them to the city and sell them to rich people, earn a few small money, and it is very difficult to maintain a basic life. Got extra money to send Peele to dance school?Considering Peel's future life, his parents decided to send him to a tailor shop as an apprentice in order to learn a craft in the future and help reduce the burden on the family.

Life in the tailor shop was not easy at all. Peel had to work more than 10 hours a day, but the salary he earned was not enough for his living expenses and apprenticeship fees. He was very tired.He thought in his heart that this was a waste of time and life.The anguish of having ideals but not being able to realize them tortured his heart every day.Occasionally, he would even come up with some terrible thoughts: living like this is really not as good as ending life early in order to seek relief.

In desperation, he suddenly thought of a person——Budry, who was the "father of ballet music" he had admired since he was a child. The spirit of devotion to art.So, he decided to write a letter to Budry, hoping that Budry could accept him as an apprentice.At the end of the letter, Peale wrote: "If you do not reply within a week and refuse to accept me as an apprentice, then I will have to devote myself to art and commit suicide by jumping into the river."

Maybe the words were too harsh, or maybe Budley really wanted to help Pierre, in short, he wrote back.However, to Peale's regret, Budley didn't mention anything about accepting him as an apprentice in his letter, but only talked about a period of his life experience.

It turned out that Budley wanted to be a scientist when he was young.However, the conditions at home were not good at that time, and he could not support him to go to school. He could only live a life of singing with a street performer.He reminded Peel: In life, there will always be a certain gap between reality and ideals. People must first choose to survive and live well before they can realize the so-called ideals.If you don't even cherish your own life, then this person is not qualified to talk about art.

Budry's reply made Peel suddenly wake up: Since life has pushed him to this road, he must work hard to go on!Afterwards, he stopped thinking about it, and no longer clinging to the dream of dancing. He started to study sewing skills hard.He seems to be born with the ability to make clothes, and in just two years, his craftsmanship has surpassed that of his master.He often designs some novel clothes, which are very popular with some local noble ladies. From time to time, someone will come to ask him to design women's clothes.Peel likes novelty, elegance and various styles of stage costumes. In order to broaden his horizons, he began to study all kinds of stage costumes with great concentration.During the day, he worked in a tailor shop, and at night he went to work as an actor in a local amateur theater troupe in order to gain personal experience.The novelty and gorgeousness of stage costumes left a deep impression on Peale, and also had a great influence on his future design style.

At the age of 17, Peel rode a battered bicycle to Paris.At that time, the Second World War had already kicked off. Paris was full of refugees, and the streets and alleys were full of German soldiers.Peele violated the curfew and was thrown in jail, but luckily he wasn't Jewish, and was eventually released.

Time flies, and at the age of 22, Peel has made a qualitative leap in clothing design and production, and is recognized as the best tailor in the local area.Soon, he started his own fashion business and established his own company and clothing brand, which later became the world-famous Pierre Cardin company.

Once, Peel talked about his childhood dream in an interview. He said: "Actually, I don't have the quality of a dancer. Being a dancer is just an illusory dream of youth and frivolity. If I hadn't given up being a dancer then The ideal of a dancer would not be what it is today."

Ideals will always shine brightly.Almost everyone had an ideal when they were teenagers, and they were all excited and depressed for that great goal.However, real dreams are not imagined, nor is it enough to have a passion for nothing. Only by diligently doing everything around you and taking every step of life in a down-to-earth manner can you achieve your dreams possible.

If a person has not determined the goal of sailing, no wind direction will be favorable to him. / French thinker Montaigne

Opportunities sometimes need to be created by themselves

At the age of 18, most of my peers are still studying hard in high school classrooms, preparing for the turning point in life - the college entrance examination.He was an exception. At this time, he already had his own foothold in a big city.

He studied in a technical secondary school, and went to Shenzhen to work after graduation.In that huge and fiercely competitive city, without a high degree of education, relying on his own diligence and ability, he made his own small achievements in less than half a year and sat in the seat of the company's management staff. Position, monthly salary 5000 yuan.

However, all this is not what he really wants. He always has a university dream that he can't let go of.Therefore, he gave up the superior working conditions, returned to his hometown, and participated in cram schools.It is still the diligence and perseverance that made him the first local student admitted to Tsinghua University in 15 years.

After graduating from university, he joined a newspaper as a financial reporter.In just four months he was one of the newspaper's best reporters.It stands to reason that such an achievement should make him very gratified, but by chance, he saw a potential "sense of crisis" in a colleague.

That day, he saw a colleague who was about 30 years old was working hard in the office, doing the same thing as himself every day. Although his qualifications were older than his own, his performance sometimes was not as good as his own.He suddenly shuddered, thinking that in another ten years, would he become like this?Do I have to stay here for the rest of my life, repeating the same thing every day?

Indistinctly, he was shaken, and his young and restless heart began to stir again.This didn't seem to be his real dream either. For the first time in his life, he thought of starting a business.He's not a verbal motivator who just talks and doesn't practice.After several months of preparation, he wrote his first business plan. However, in this era, creativity is not enough, and a plan without funds is like talking on paper.what to do?Unwilling to be defeated by money, he took the initiative to seek venture capital.

(End of this chapter)