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Embrace the pain of growing up

Success is not in the mouths of others; fame and fortune are not in the eyes of others; happiness or happiness is in your own heart; good and evil are good and evil in your own mind.

By Margaret WarrenPublished 3 years ago 6 min read

When I was a child, I hoped to grow up, because I always thought it was good to be an adult, and adults who thought that children could not do it could do it. When I really grow up, I realize that childhood is beautiful. Because I don't know what real sorrow is. Growth is an inevitable process, and it is also a process full of hope and surprise, and of course it is inevitably full of pain.

Growth without pain cannot be regarded as growth in the true sense, because the meaning of growth itself includes pain. It is pain that makes a person mature. For example, a person who has never felt the warmth or coldness of human feelings will never be able to understand the delicate and complex interests between people. Another example is a child from a wealthy businessman or a wealthy family. Unless he has experienced the decline of Cao Xueqin's family, he will only feel that the friends around him are very good to him.​​

Growth not only refers to the increase in age, but also includes spiritual maturity. Attitudes towards suffering change as the experience of suffering increases, and as a result, differences gradually begin to emerge from person to person. Negative people are destroyed by suffering, positive people fight against suffering, and finally achieve success that is difficult to achieve in good times.​​

President Roosevelt was very timid as a child. There was always a look of fear on his face. During class, his legs would tremble involuntarily as he was called to recite by the teacher, and his lips would constantly tremble as if exposed to the freezing cold. He was very slurred because he was cowardly and lacked the courage to speak out loud. He would answer the teacher's questions quietly, then slump back into his seat like a deflated ball. He doesn't even like laughing very much, because he is a buck tooth, and "laughing a lot" will expose his shortcomings in this respect even more for him.​​

However, as he grew up, he became more and more confident. He knew that many of his companions laughed at him, but he ignored it and walked his own way firmly. He slowly learned to make friends and made a lot of friends; he slowly learned to get rid of his inability to talk, not only spoke a lot, but also loudly; he had a problem with his nose, that is, his voice was loud. But in the process of growing up, he turned this into his own unique feature, so that when Americans mention President Roosevelt, they always think of his loud snort, which they think is a strong spirit of determination.​​

He doesn't regard his flaws as a stumbling block that blocks his progress, but uses them to make himself stronger, and while constantly accepting ridicule and blow, he trains his psychological quality. In the process of growing up, he endured a lot of hardships, but because he has a positive spirit to face suffering, he has gained far more from the pain of growing up than he imagined.​​

The fact that he eventually became the President of the United States was entirely inseparable from his attitude towards growing pains. It was the pain that made him mature, and made him gradually have the qualities to be a president. He is also plagued by polio and can only sit in a wheelchair, but his figure is getting taller and taller in the hearts of the American people. He was the first and most popular president in American history, a four-term president, and one of the most famous presidents in American history.​​

Yes, growth is inseparable from pain. Pain can make a person achieve the goal of growth more smoothly, and at the same time, it can destroy a person's future. It all depends on the person's own attitude towards suffering.​​

When a boy was in junior high school, he came home from school one afternoon and found that his father had passed away forever. The loss of his father left him, a teenage child, in constant grief. However, life has to go on, and as he gradually emerges from his grief, he immediately faces a very real problem. Father is the pillar of the family. Now that he is gone, who will carry the burden of life in the family in the future? Is it all to the mother? cannot!​​

He knew that he was no longer qualified to go to school as happily as other peers, and even if he had worries, it was only his own trivial matters. He must come early from the junior high school campus full of childish thoughts and voices to social reality.

This is a huge suffering that a child encounters in the process of growing up. However, he responded calmly. Because he knew he had to embrace the pain that had become a reality—a notion that itself proved that he was on a new path of growth.​​

He came to the provincial capital alone, looking for a job to support his family. However, when he just came out of the junior high school campus, he encountered a very big problem when he came to the provincial capital - he basically can't do anything. This is how to do? Fortunately, the last small restaurant accepted him, and he became a dishwasher.

He earnestly worked his hard-won job, gritted his teeth and persisted no matter how tired he was, and he was very pleased that he could earn wages. He even got excited at the thought that his mother would be a lot less burdened because he started earning money—a fact he was proud to admit as a sign that he was more mature than before.​​

Yes, he has grown up. He is not afraid of suffering, but he is afraid that he will not be able to improve himself. Therefore, while doing his own job, he secretly learned to cook. Because of his diligence and studious, later, the owner of this small shop made him a pastry chef.​​

There is no suspense. Inspired by his courage to endure hardships, God gave him a good result-he finally owned his own bakery. Originally, for someone like him who didn't even finish junior high school, it was pretty good to be able to do this. He can fully support his family, and he can let his mother retire with peace of mind. However, he was not satisfied. He feels he still needs to develop.​​

Yes, it is not easy for everyone to be satisfied, but not everyone is willing to endure hardship because of dissatisfaction with the status quo, and is willing to stretch out their arms to embrace the pain that will inevitably arise in the process of growing up. He would. Because he understands that a person's growth not only refers to the growth of age, but also includes mental maturity and career development. These all need to endure hardships, he is not afraid, he is willing to gain all aspects of growth by constantly overcoming pain.​​

He worked hard and learned the experience needed for business operations. Then he sold his bakery, and with the money he had saved over the past few years, he turned to the real estate business. At first, of course, the road was very difficult, with wolves in the front and tigers in the back. However, with the qualities he cultivated through years of hard work, he persisted. Today, he has become a billionaire entrepreneur. He has successfully grown from a kid who dropped out of middle school to an entrepreneur. It was full of pain, of course, and he survived it. This person is Li Menghua. He told us with his own actions that growth is inseparable from pain. As long as you embrace it bravely, you will get a new self and a better future.

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About the Creator

Margaret Warren

In the wilderness of the boundless heart, I was a loner; in the wilderness of the boundless heart, you were a loner. We met because of fate.

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