Pain is the best teacher of youth

Chapter 7 Let pain and suffering become a kind of experience (3)
The next day, my sister took Qiaoqiao to the Children's Palace to apply for a vocal class.Later, the ballet teacher at the Children's Palace thought that Qiaoqiao was a good dancer, so he let her enter the dance class for free.Qiao Qiao studied vocal music for 7 years and ballet for 4 years, and became a top student in the Children's Palace.Every time there are some important festivals, in the cultural evenings of provincial TV stations or in large-scale singing and dancing activities, the pretty figure will always appear, she is simply a bright new star.After that, Qiaoqiao was admitted to a key middle school in the city. She danced a "Swan Dance" at the school art festival, which made the teachers and students in the school remember her.

Luck and disaster always come alternately.In the winter of Qiaoqiao's third year of junior high school, her father left home suddenly and got on a long-distance bus bound for other provinces and cities.In the car, people found him abnormal and drove him out of the car halfway.At that time, it was very cold and it was covered with snow outside.My father was probably froze, so he ran to a dilapidated water pump house not far away, got into it, and never came out again.

After hearing the news of her father's departure, Qiaoqiao's whole body collapsed.She often wakes up crying at night, calling her father; she is absent-minded and her eyes are glazed over in class during the day.Within a month, she developed symptoms such as thirst, frequent urination, and vomiting.Finally one day, she passed out while making dinner.My sister and mother rushed her to the hospital. The result of the diagnosis was type 1 diabetes, with 4 plus signs for ketone bodies and 3 plus signs for urine sugar, and the condition has developed to an advanced stage.

At this time, the mother's eyes have been completely blind.In the hospital, she cried in a mess, lamenting why bad luck had befallen this sensible girl.According to the doctor, Qiaoqiao's illness is likely to be caused by the physical overdraft all year round and the huge mental pressure. What's worse, according to her condition, she can live to be 20 years old at most.After hearing this, the mother and sister didn't say a word for a long time.

After some emergency treatment, Qiaoqiao regained consciousness.After being hospitalized for half a month, in order to save medical expenses, she insisted on leaving the hospital.The doctor disagreed, saying that she had to inject 3 injections of insulin every day, worrying that she could not do it by herself.Qiaoqiao insisted on asking the doctor to teach her, and said that this disease is a lifetime thing, and she must learn how to prick the needle by herself.Being pestered, the doctor had no choice but to agree to her.

Every day after being ill, Qiaoqiao's life is not easy.Every day after five o'clock, she needs to give herself insulin; before dinner, she also needs to take an injection.When the excruciating pain became a part of her life, Qiaoqiao no longer feared death.She felt that death was also a relief.During the days when she was recuperating at home, she sang when she was bored. Only in singing can she regain the beauty and forget the torment of illness.

At the age of 16, Qiaoqiao participated in the National Talent Selection Contest, and successfully won the first prize in the youth popular group, realizing a dream in her heart.However, the 4000 yuan for the competition was borrowed by her sister, and she was still thinking about how to help her sister pay it back when she was seriously ill.

Finally, with the help of the director of an industry and commerce office in a certain wholesale market, Qiaoqiao got a free booth, and a kind person provided her with goods for free. tax.In this way, their "love sister shop" opened.Half a year later, they not only paid off the 4000 yuan debt, but also made some extra money to buy new goods for the store.After experiencing all kinds of hardships, Qiaoqiao finally saw the dawn of a new life.She believes that as long as she loves life unabated, everything will be fine.

Look, in this world full of loving and being loved, hurting and being hurt, life is stingy to us because it always disappoints us; however, life is so generous and always saves us after disappointment. / Young Writer Seven Years

The one who deals the cards is God, the one who plays the cards is yourself

Unfortunately, it came suddenly at the moment Bill Potter was born.

No one knows why, when Bill was born, he was so "naughty" that he fell directly to the ground.Needless to say, it was a fatal disaster for a squishy little baby.It was that fall that severely damaged his left brain, causing the right half of his body to be unable to obey his commands, and his right arm was basically just a display.He walks like a shrimp, bowing forward and jumping, looking funny and pitiful.

Parents did not dislike little Bill because of this, they loved this special child just like normal children.When he was a child, his mother often taught Bill to play poker games, but many times, Bill got very bad cards. He always lost to his mother, and gradually lost interest in poker.

Seeing Bill's dejected look, his mother told him: "If you combine the bad cards in your hand skillfully, you can win. If you don't believe me, try it?" Bill picked up the cards again dubiously, just as his mother said. In that way, using some special skills can really turn defeat into victory.This miraculous discovery made Bill more confident as he played. No matter what cards he encountered, he would play them seriously.

At the age of kindergarten, his mother smiled and told him a secret: "Bill, the reason why you keep drawing bad cards is because I hide all the good cards." Bill was surprised, and asked his mother in puzzlement: "Why do you Do you want to do this?" Mom took Bill's hand and said sincerely: "My child, because compared with those healthy children, you may be a bad deck of cards, but I want you to know that bad cards may not necessarily be the same. lose."

Bill took his mother's words to heart.He learned to write, draw, shoot basketball, and do handicrafts with his left hand, no worse than other children.After graduating from high school, Bill went to the world-renowned Outerskin daily necessities company for an interview and was successfully hired.At this point, he became a door-to-door salesman.

Bill loves his job and is very dedicated.Every morning, he would take the sandwiches made by his mother and go out, take a few bus stops, and go to the nearby Chester Avenue to sell them.He rang the doorbell from door to door, politely took off his hat, and greeted the person who opened the door with a smile: "Good morning, I can delay you..."

Most of the time, what he encountered was cold stares, and before he finished speaking, the other party closed the door roughly.What he remembered most clearly was Mrs. Linda who was covered in oil on the sofa at home. She was just unfriendly, and even let the dog bite him.

After a week, Bill didn't make a single deal.The boss of the company is not very satisfied with him and wants to fire him.Bill was not reconciled, and asked his boss to give him another week, promising that he would be able to do a good job.

A new day began, and Bill smiled in the mirror and went out in good spirits.He knocked on Mrs. Linda's door again, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Linda, I saw that your sofa has a lot of oil stains. If you use our company's laundry detergent, it will not only make them look brand new, but also emit a faint smell. Qingxiang. I came here today to help you clean it for free. If the result is not as I said, you can let the dog bite me." Hearing what he said, Mrs. Linda invited him into the house with suspicion.

Bill was very serious about helping Mrs. Linda clean the sofa, busy with his hands, and kept chatting with Mrs. Linda.Mrs. Linda suddenly expressed a sense of loss. She said that she only had one son, and now in Italy, she and the puppy were the only ones left in this room.

Seeing this situation, Bill said sincerely: "Mrs. Linda, don't be too sad. From now on, I will spare time to visit you every day. If you need any help, just let me know!" Bill's kindness and enthusiasm, Impressed Mrs. Linda, she became Bill's first customer.

Since then, Bill has won the hearts of customers one after another with his enthusiasm and sincerity.By the age of 22, Bill was already a "gold medal salesman" of Otterskin, with annual sales performance as high as 4680 million US dollars.This boy who was once teased by fate, this boy who was ridiculed by others, has reached a height that ordinary people can't reach.

It is God who deals the cards. You must hold the cards no matter what. All you can do is try your best to play the cards in your hand well and get the best results.The same is true in life. Believe it or not, Helen Keller was blind, Rick Vujic was born without limbs, and Stephen Hawking was paralyzed. !

To live in your love, to breathe once in a long time.In the distant wasteland, there is a stream of water, and there are leaves dancing in the village.We have an open space not to ask what fate knows. /Chinese Poet Gu Cheng
Not afraid of losing life, only afraid of losing grace

At a joint comics exhibition in Europe, a cartoon that was incompatible with other works caught everyone's eyes. It seemed to condense the author's anger towards life. Splashed with acid water.However, unexpectedly, this painting with anger finally won the grand prize of that comic exhibition.

Whose painting is this?What kind of legend is behind it?For a time, many people wanted to reveal the answer to this mystery.

Later, everyone learned that the author of the painting was Johnny Hickleton, and when he won the grand prize, he was already terminally ill and bedridden.

In 1967, Johnny was born in a small town near London, England.Like most children, he lives in a happy and warm family.Since childhood, he has loved drawing and painting.His father was on good terms with the cartoonist Ron Smith, who often visited Johnny's house and brought some of his own drawings.Once, Smith said to Johnny: "You have a talent for painting, and you will concentrate on practicing painting in the future! You will be successful in the future, this is your destiny." Johnny listened to this sentence, and then For many years, he took it as his spiritual pillar.

Soon, however, Johnny's hands and feet began to experience numbness. At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that he was too tired and would get better after rest.But the reality was not so optimistic. His numbness became more and more serious, and sometimes he fell down inexplicably while walking.

After the family learned about it, they quickly accompanied him to the hospital for examination, and the results showed that he was suffering from multiple sclerosis.This is a rare disease that is caused by the immune system.Generally speaking, a normal person's immune system will only attack those bacteria or viruses that invade the body, but Johnny's immune system is different, it specifically attacks the nerve cells in his brain.If the nerve cells are destroyed, it is inevitable that the whole body cannot be controlled. The final result is that the whole person falls into a vegetative state, and the organs of the whole body fail and die.

Johnny was so young, he didn't want his heart to stop beating.In order to prolong his life, he began to take some strange medicines, some of which were given to sheep and ponies to strengthen their hearts.He tries to eat a small measuring cup every day, imagining that his heart can be as strong as a tiger, although at this time he can no longer walk and can only move around in a wheelchair.In order to avoid making himself cranky, he finds something for himself to do every day, such as taking care of the beggar downstairs, sending him a blanket, and so on.Of course, most of the time, he still likes to express his inner voice through painting.

His heart is full of hope, and those things that he wants to do but cannot do are shown through the brush in his hand.Cameras are installed everywhere in his home, not to prevent theft, but because he wants more people to witness how he survived.Once, he said to the camera: "I will not kneel in front of the disease. Even if my body can't move, but when I lie down, my eyes still have to look around. I must live. I have done enough Even if I put a big cup in front of me and suck liquid food like a baby in the end, I will make a decisive blow to the disease and retain my dignity as a human being."

Johnny spends half his 24 hours a day drawing.Sometimes he wakes up with a pen in his hand.Over the past few years, the anger towards the disease accumulated in his heart, like a volcanic eruption, has been vividly expressed in his works, and gradually formed his own unique comic narrative language and visual expression style.A series of humorous cartoons transformed him from an unknown person into a famous professional cartoonist, and became popular in the European and American comic circles.

Five years later, Johnny completely lost his conditioned reflex function below the knees, his legs were as soft as noodles, his hands were shaking constantly, and he could no longer pick up a paintbrush.He is well aware of his own situation, but subconsciously suppresses this thought all the time, fearing that his actions will have a negative impact on the people around him.He arranged his daily life to the full, put on sneakers on his unconscious feet, took a lot of painkillers, and devoted himself to public welfare activities without hesitation.

In 2007, six years had passed since Johnny's illness was diagnosed.At this time, he was known as Johnny Dead Branch.In the early morning, the first thing he did after waking up was to take a large amount of painkillers, and then endured the severe pain all over his body to go to the toilet.For many people, this kind of life is really difficult, but under such circumstances, Johnny still insists on creating every day, and has left a lot of priceless works handed down from generation to generation.

Later, Johnny's deeds caused a sensation throughout the UK, and the video of his life began to be broadcast on many TV stations.In the video, he perfectly does not have the feeling of depression of being terminally ill, but is full of energy and smiles on his face.The most memorable thing is that he often repeated this sentence in the video: "I sincerely wish people all over the world to be healthy and happy! I want to let myself live decently, not afraid of losing my life, but only afraid of losing my demeanor."

The turning point of life is often premeditated. When we are constantly looking for a beginning, in fact, it has already opened a small gap in a false door, waiting for you to see the sunlight coming through. /Wang Xiaorou "Fulfillment of Wishes"

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