High school composition material and mentality

There was a poor farmer who had very little money, only enough to buy a piece of land that no one wanted. This land is so barren that he can neither grow grain and fruit, nor raise pigs and cattle. Only poplars and rattlesnakes can grow. My husband and wife called him stupid, and everyone around him held helpless sympathy.

But the farmer feels that although the land is barren, it is his hope. He didn't complain, let alone despair, but tried to turn those things that everyone disliked into his own wealth. He began to breed rattlesnakes in large quantities, and then took out the snake venom and sold it to major pharmaceutical companies. Snakeskin is sold to factories for leather bags at high prices, and snake meat is made into delicious cans and sold all over the world. With the growth of his snake industry, many people come here to travel, and the number of tourists reaches tens of thousands a year, which is another rich income. His wasteland, which no one wanted in the past, became his cornucopia, and this rattlesnake village in Florida, USA, is now famous.

I think many people may not envy the farmer's wealth, but they will certainly appreciate his cleverness.

His successful experience tells us that in the unchangeable life situation, we should learn to turn negative numbers into positive numbers, calmly eliminate the disadvantages of many holes, and strive to find a hidden advantage that can open the breakthrough, so as to change our original bad fate to the greatest extent.

Indeed, for most of us, luck will not be too good or even bad. For example, we are talented but can't find a satisfactory job. We can only face an ambitious and mediocre career, but we want to achieve something but are buried at the bottom of society, just like that farmer had only a barren land.

But as long as you are good at using your wisdom, you can reverse the disadvantages in life and win by surprise. A successful scholar has a quip: "The most important thing in life is to learn to profit from your losses."

It is especially important for us to understand this when we have to face the life in a barren land.

(Lin Runhan's Hundred Flowers, No.7, 2003)

8% trouble

A psychologist did an interesting experiment.

He asked a group of experimenters to write down all their worries for the next seven days on Sunday night, and then put them in a big "worry box".

On the Sunday of the third week, in front of the experimenter, he opened the box and checked every "worry" with the members one by one, and found that 90% did not really happen.

Then, he asked everyone to throw the rest of the paper back into the carton and wait for three weeks to find a way. As a result, when he opened the box that day, he found that those troubles were no longer troubles.

Trouble is self-inflicted, which is called asking for trouble. According to statistics, 40% of ordinary people's troubles belong to the past, 50% to the future, and only 10% belongs to the present, 92% of which has never happened, and the remaining 8% is something you can easily deal with.

There is a secret that doctors know, that is, most diseases can be cured without treatment. Similarly, most troubles will be much better the next morning. The secret of overcoming anxiety is to develop a detached attitude, treat the worries overflowing in your heart as a river flowing in the past, don't let yourself indulge in it, always pay attention to reality and things around you, and must develop the habit of thinking positively about everything. Sometimes our hearts are like being in the darkness of winter, so writing down the reasons for happiness one by one can lead us out of the maze of troubles quickly. (Shanxi Evening News 165438+ 10/5)

Heart window

There are two foreign stories about windows:

A sentimental little girl, seeing the funeral procession in the west window of her home, could not help but look gloomy and burst into tears, curled up in front of the window in a daze. Grandpa saw it, called the little girl to the east window, opened the window for her to see, and saw the family holding a wedding. The festive atmosphere immediately infected the little girl's mood, and she smiled through tears. From then on, in her young mind, her grandfather's philosophical teachings will always be engraved: there are tragedies and comedies, failures and successes, pains and joys in life. You can't just open a window and see the scenery!

Another lively little girl, unfortunately, broke her leg in skiing and was admitted to the hospital. She was lying in a hospital bed, unable to move, in agony, and living like Lacrimosa for a year all day. In the same ward with her, by the window is a kind old lady. Her injury has almost healed, and she can sit up and look at the scenery outside the window obsessively every day. How much the little girl wants to see the world outside the window! But her legs were pulled by the splint, so she couldn't sit up, and the bed was not close to the window, so naturally she couldn't enjoy the scenery outside the window. Every time the old lady pushes the window to see the scenery, the little girl can't help but ask with envy, what are you looking at? Can you tell me? The old lady readily promised: good, good! So, the old lady gave her a detailed description of the scenery and what happened outside the window every day. The little girl listened, imagined the beautiful scenery in the snow, felt relaxed and happy, and the repressed loneliness in her heart vanished in an instant. A month later,

The old lady was discharged from the hospital. The little girl couldn't wait to beg the doctor to transfer her to a hospital bed by the window. She struggled to stand up and craned her neck to look out of the window. She was shocked: there was a black wall outside the window! But the little girl suddenly realized that it was the old lady who opened a window for her! Whenever she is frustrated and sad, she will think of this respectable old lady and the beautiful scenery outside the window described by the old lady?

When people are on the verge of suffocation and spiritual crisis, they need a pair of hands like God to help them open a window of the soul. Of course, it should be a window full of joy and hope. In fact, it's just a little effort, which is not difficult for everyone to do, but it is often ignored, forgotten and even despised?

(Excerpted from Ye Dachun, author of Liberation Daily on June 9, 2003)

oneiromancy

A scholar went to Beijing for the third time to catch the exam and stayed in a shop where he often lived. Two days before the exam, he had three dreams. The first dream is that he grows cabbage on the wall. The second dream is that it is raining. He is wearing a hat and an umbrella. The third dream is that he is lying naked with his beloved cousin, but his back is to his back.

These three dreams seem to have some profound meanings, so the scholar hurried to find fortune-telling dreams the next day. Hearing this, the fortune teller patted his thigh continuously and said, "You'd better go home. Think about it, isn't it futile to grow vegetables on high walls? Isn't it unnecessary to wear a hat and an umbrella? Isn't it impossible to lie naked in a bed with my cousin, but back to back? "

Hearing this, the scholar was disheartened and went back to the store to pack his bags and prepare to go home. The shopkeeper was surprised and asked, "Isn't there an exam tomorrow? How did you go back to your hometown today? "

When the scholar said this, the shopkeeper was happy: "Hey, I can interpret dreams, too. I think you must stay this time. Think about it, isn't it high to grow vegetables on the wall? Doesn't wearing a hat and an umbrella mean that you are prepared this time? Lying naked in bed with your cousin doesn't mean you should turn over? "

Hearing this, the scholar made more sense, so he took the exam happily and got a flower exploration.

The consequences of thinking the worst.

One stormy night, a young man's car broke down on a remote mountain road.

He cursed loudly while checking the condition of the car. Indeed, he should curse, because he is so unlucky: "There are so many people in the company, why did you drive to deliver the goods in the middle of the night, when the thunder and lightning thundered?" Why do shippers have to live in mountainous areas far away from cities? Why on a remote mountain road, this old car, which is ringing everywhere except the horn, just broke down. Bitter! ! ! ! "

Tools and jacks are needed to repair the car, but the young man doesn't have them. He looked up and looked around and found a lamp in the distance, vaguely.

Yellow light. "That should be a family?"

The young man decided to borrow a jack from that family. The wind is whistling and the rain is rustling. The young man can't help thinking, "What if there is no one at home?"

"What if there is someone at home in that family, but there is no Jack?"

"What if that guy has a jack but won't lend it to me?"

The more young people think about it, the angrier they get. After the quick knock on the door and the master opened the door, the young man couldn't help it. He blurted out, "Damn, you are such a great guy!"

Did the young man succeed in getting out of trouble with a jack? The result can be imagined.

Young people's thoughts are all negative. The more they think about it, the angrier they get. Things tend to develop in the direction you want, and the results you get can be imagined.

A person's mind, like a camcorder, is naturally cheerful and comfortable when shooting in blue sky and white clouds, mountains and rivers, and naturally depressed and sad when shooting in sewage ditches and human tragedies.

Life has been in a hurry for decades, so why bother about unhappy things and not be yourself?

Look on the bright side, the sunshine is right in front of you.

Last week's grain

During the ancient Greek city-state, brutal wars often occurred between the city-states. In one of the wars, the Athenian city-states were besieged by rival city-states for half a year. At this time, the Athens Supreme Chief ordered the officials in charge of rations to carefully calculate how much food they had left and how long Athens could last. Before long, officials panicked and reported that our food was only enough for a week, and the whole city would starve to death after a week.

Some officials who first heard the news were also panicked, and they advised the chief executive that instead of being besieged and starved to death, it was better to surrender in Kaesong and save the lives of a city's people.

At this time, the officer stood up, his face full of confidence and optimism. He said, we still have a week's food to support, which is great. Can't we make use of this week's breakthrough? Can the enemy's rations last for a week? Can't we think of a better way in a week?

Yes, there is still one week, one week, maybe the enemy can't hold on, and we won without fighting.

As the chief predicted, when their food could last for three days, the besieged enemy began to retreat, because their military food had been exhausted, and Athens defeated the enemy with confidence and hope.

Many times, there are two diametrically opposed views on the same problem, and from one point of view, it is a dead end.

This dead end, from another perspective, is a hopeful sunshine avenue.

-Mr. Lu, Xi Daily, June 5438+065438+1October 2 1.

Take a nap in the dark

A friend had an accident in the middle of the night and flew off the road. His car broke down and his leg was hurt, but his cell phone was dead and he couldn't call for help. He spent eight hours alone in the cold autumn rain and the darkness of the wilderness, and finally hoped for the dawn and rescuers. We lament how an injured person spent eight long hours in fear magnified many times by loneliness. ! His answer is surprising: "I checked my body first, and found that there was no danger to my life and I couldn't call for help, so I slept in the back seat of the car to avoid the real danger caused by ineffective blind action."

Take a nap in the dark. My friend said that this is his most powerful weapon against 480 minutes of darkness.

His account rewrote my regret about an adventure accident last year. Several young people lost their way in the dark cave, and the panic swallowed by the darkness chased them to run aimlessly in the cave. As a result, they got farther and farther away from the mouth of the cave and were finally trapped in the cave. Rescuers later analyzed that the place where they first got lost was actually only about ten meters away from the mouth of the cave. If they stay where they are and calm their flustered hearts, they can feel the faint light jumping not far away.

The luck of my friends and the misfortune of several young people remind me of a popular saying-negative and enterprising. The logic seems a bit chaotic, but life is often like this. When you encounter all kinds of temporary darkness in your work and life, you don't have to take countermeasures immediately. Before you find the direction and way through the darkness, it may be more effective to hold your breath and take a nap in the dark. But on the surface, it is somewhat negative, which requires great courage and great realm to do.

On the festival related to roses in February, some young friends dozed off in the darkness of lovelorn love. They smell the flowers of others, guard their loneliness, and make a Valentine's Day without lovers full of fragrance. Someone told me that if you start a new love hastily to avoid the shadow of lovelorn, the result will be like a poet's famous saying: from darkness to darkness. Moreover, it is often from darkness to darker darkness.

It seems that it is necessary to take a nap in the dark. In addition to the reason when the disaster strikes and the confidence when frustrated, it should also include the bunches of wronged and homeless roses in the cold wind.

-Fan Xiaobo's The Beginning of Wet Experience, No.3, 2003