Don't want to be a bull in a bullfight, but still a good bull!
I watched "The Adventures of the Bull" two days ago. The film is based on Manro Reeve's classic children's book "The Cow Who Loves Flowers". It tells the adventure story of a bull named "Ferdinand" in Spain who resisted his predetermined destiny.
The little bull Ferdinand doesn't like fighting, he only likes flowers. He tries his best to protect a flower in the cattle farm, but he is laughed at by other friends. But he didn't think so. He just didn't like the bullring, and he didn't like fighting. His father was chosen by the bullfighters, but he never came back, so Ferdinand, who was afraid of the bullring, escaped from the bull's house.
The lucky Ferdinand was adopted by the little girl Nina. Nina's home was a big farm full of flowers, so Ferdinand began to live there. He stood on the hillside every day. , rolling down the slope smelling the flowers, fighting with Nina, bickering with the farm dog Peg, every day is extraordinarily beautiful.
The grown-up Ferdinand is particularly huge, but his heart is still soft and he still loves flowers like his life.
The annual flower festival in the town has opened, which is the festival Ferdinand is most looking forward to, but this year Nina's father does not allow him to go again, because he is afraid that his huge stature will make others afraid.
Ferdinand, who was left at home, was aggrieved and unwilling. In the end, he secretly went to the flower festival in the town, and because of his huge figure, he made a series of embarrassment at the flower festival. Finally, he was brought back to the flower festival where he was the most beautiful. The place of resistance, full of fear - the house of the bull.
Ferdinand, who returned to the Bull House, was full of thoughts and desires to return to the place full of flowers. But he was ridiculed by his former friends for being delusional and warned him that the bull has only two fates: becoming a bullfighting bull and becoming a beef bull.
Ferdinand, who had experienced a good life, didn't believe it. He told other friends that in addition to these two options, he could be himself and go to a place full of love and flowers, but other friends didn't trust him. The bullfighter came and wanted to choose a bull to go to the bullring. Ferdinand's friends tried their best to exercise, hoping to be selected to go to the bullring, but Ferdinand kept resisting.
Ferdinand, who had been contradicting all the time, was selected by the matador by accident, so Ferdinand planned to escape, but ultimately failed. After the slaughterhouse incident and the escape incident, Ferdinand finally had to stand in the bullring that he had been trying to avoid.
Even when he got to the bullring, he always resisted being a bullfighter. Ferdinand, who was constantly provoked, began to meet the bullfighter. After the bullfighter took out two knives, Ferdinand's fear was aroused. He was angry and used his sharp horns to hold the bullfighter with a fierce look on his face. His expression became peaceful because he saw a flower under his feet, so he put down the matador. Go sniffing the flower on the ground with your nose, as if you were in a farm full of flowers where you once lived. At that moment, Ferdinand's expression was no longer ferocious or fierce.
Facing the bullfighter who came up again, Ferdinand gave up his resistance completely, sat down, and stared at the bullfighter with innocent eyes. The bullfighter was about to rush to kill Ferdinand, but the audience on the field shouted to spare him. Finally, the bullfighter gave up and left, and the audience sprinkled flowers on the field to pay tribute to the bull who loved flowers.
Wouldn't a bull who doesn't want to be a pit bull be a good bull? Not really.
These bulls were born with the mission of going to the bullring. But Ferdinand refused to accept it, so he escaped from his original destiny, it just wanted to arrange his life according to his inner thoughts, he just wanted to be himself, live well, look at the blue sky and smell the flowers.
Therefore, those children who do not want to be academic bullies are also excellent children. Not every child has to walk forward according to the predetermined destiny, they can live out themselves and do what they think in their hearts.
Liu Jirong has an article "The Man Sitting on the Road and Applauding", saying that her daughter's grades are average and high. She and her husband tried to increase nutrition, material incentives, etc., and after tossing it over and over again, her daughter's face became more and more pale, but her grades were not high. Not the slightest improvement. An incident that happened later made her change her opinion. Her daughter's class teacher said that in this exam, there was an additional question on the Chinese test paper: Which student in the class do you admire the most, please give reasons. Except for the daughter, all the students in the class even wrote the daughter's name. There are many reasons: being helpful, keeping promises, not being angry, being easy to get along with, etc. The most written one is optimistic and humorous. The class teacher also said that many classmates recommended that she be the class leader. He sighed: Your daughter, although her grades are average, she is really outstanding.
The author joked that her daughter was going to become a hero, but her daughter said that she didn't want to be a hero, she just wanted to be a person sitting on the side of the road applauding.
The author said with emotion, how many people in this world longed to be heroes when they were young, but eventually became ordinary people in the world of fireworks. If you are healthy, if you are happy, and if you don't go against your will, why don't our children be a kind ordinary person. When she grows up, she must be a virtuous wife, a gentle mother, and even a warm-hearted colleague and a kind neighbor. During those long years, she was able to live the life she wanted in peace. As a parent, what do you want to pray for a better future for your child?
Yes, if the child can be healthy and happy to be an ordinary person, and live an ordinary but happy life, it is not necessarily bad. It is not to become a scholar, to be admitted to a famous university, and to become a top 500 supervisor, is a successful life. To be an ordinary and ordinary clerk, with firewood, rice, oil and salt, and happiness with fireworks, is still a successful life.
But it is not that children are not encouraged to study hard and study hard. Because it is not necessary to be a scholar, but it is necessary to study hard.
But what is the point of studying hard? I think in addition to learning to make a living, we also need to learn to make love.
Through reading, learn survival skills, have a place in the society, through reading, learn emotional communication skills, you can have a stable and happy life.
As parents, we want our children to learn to love and earn a living through reading, not to make them famous, but to let them be safe and happy!
Lu Lu said in an article: "I have always believed that being a parent, cultivating and exercising children's quality, personality, upbringing and emotional intelligence, and letting children understand the rules and principles of this society, is better than stepping on others in the class. Two points more or two points less, learning a certain skill in English Olympiad is more important."
Parents want their children to become academic masters, get admitted to a famous university, find a good job, and then get ahead, but the world is so big, there are still very few people who can get ahead, but to be an ordinary person and accept that you will live your life forever. It is an ordinary person, this is what more people need to face, and this is the real life. Not every child wants to be a scholar and a successful person.
Maybe there are children, like Ferdinand the bull, who don't want to be a bull in the bullring, but want to be a bull who loves flowers.
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