In ancient times, there was training to encourage young people, but now there is pain of humiliation and aggression. Growth will never run to the light because of external factors. Only by constantly striving for self-improvement can we strengthen our minds, strengthen our hearts and break through the darkness.
Everyone knows the "egg growth theory" and understands that people are like eggs. If they break from the inside, they can be reborn. Yes, growth is not passive. It is a process of constantly transforming the subjective world. It needs to actively face and respond to the test of everything in the world and always give itself a shot in the arm. Self-improvement is such a tonic. All things that strive for self-improvement will always grow, get the most tenacious soul and sing all the way.
On the contrary, passively waiting for others to knock on the door of growth is like a sheep entering a tiger's den. Stuck in your illusory dreams, you don't make progress until you are in danger but don't know much about it. If there is a faint touch outside the bubble at this time, it will be enough to break the false self-sufficiency of this overflow without blowing off the dust. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China's dream of a great country was wiped out by the sharp knives and guns of the great powers, and it became the palace of foreigners. The Chinese nation was played by foreign forces, and then the Qing Dynasty perished. Great powers fall apart in an instant, among which, the growth of the country is out of the question. No self-improvement, no growth.
But pursuing the road of self-improvement may be the right choice, otherwise blindly self-improvement is "one-sided exclusion" and will eventually bring disaster to yourself. There is an old saying: "Heaven is strong, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement." It is intended to enrich itself by netting all the desirable interests in the world. People who are self-reliant must be pragmatic. They take decisive action and never wait for relief from others. If they wait blindly, "self-reliance" will become "suicide" and they will never be able to go to a bright day without falling to the ground.
Self-improvement leads to growth. Many classic examples in ancient and modern times can be a mirror with profound implications. Gou Jian of the State of Yue, Sima of the Han Dynasty, endured humiliation and strengthened himself, remoulding his life; In the Warring States period, Chen Wu, Qin and Han Dynasties, Liu Xiang rose, and the water was still in the past; Van Gogh, Paul, Hawking and Beethoven, their fates were so bad that they created the frontier of renewal. If you can't improve yourself in life, you will waste the beauty of this life in vain, leaving only a boneless body.
Miyazaki Hayao once said: "People only have the beauty of coming out, but not the brilliance of coming out." Growth never needs to wait. Growth requires self-improvement, courage from the inside out, and amazing power to break through from the inside out. Only self-improvement can make life shine, and only self-improvement can make the spirit of life spread for thousands of years and still exist. Is the charm of life forever.