— -coward! You were never an idealist! You simply can't be honest with yourself! Do you really have an unshakable ideal? ?
The so-called ideal, if it cannot be implemented in a lifetime, is not worthy of being called an ideal at all! You can make concessions, you can make a temporary retreat, but you can't forget what you are retreating for - it can only be for the next step to be bigger, the next step to go further!
If you have an ideal, you should fight for your ideal to the end. You can make it dusty, but you cannot let it go out. If you are not ready to fail, stop saying you are an idealist. You are just a coward in idealistic veneer, a poor bastard who deceives himself with false delusions. You are just for a glorified memory to tell yourself, "I had dreams when I was young".
- Or, you can call yourself a romantic, because passion can be wiped out at any time. Passion of the moment, please don't pretend to be the ideal of a lifetime. (I think the misunderstanding between idealism and romanticism is a big reason for the abuse of idealism. People always have a hard time distinguishing, or rather they don't want to distinguish, between impulsive passions and gritty ideals They also don't seem to understand that if any passion is enough to run through a person's life, he's already a great idealist.)
Finally I'd like to quote Romain Rolland to make this short The short text ends: "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, and that is discovering the truth of life and still loving it." Whoever he is, I would call that awe-inspiring idealist a hero.
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