In the second semester of college, I have been hesitating whether to go to the Chinese Department. You know, for a person who has no sense of various experiments in physics, chemistry and biology, staying in the laboratory to do experiments is simply killing him. Until that boring afternoon, I watched the movie "Dead Poets Society".
Mr. Keating said: "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for." (We read and write poetry not because they are fun, but because we are human One, and human beings are full of passion. Yes, medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, enough to support a person's life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are the meaning of our lives .)
Instead of spending four years in a field you don’t like, bewildered, miserable, and hopeless, do something passionate. Gao Xiaosong said that the best concept in life is to never think about what you want, just want what you don't want, and just let go of what you don't want. I decided to listen to my inner voice - if you want to change majors, change majors, don't lose yourself.
I remember my first class meeting when I got to the new class. Teacher Yin, the head teacher of the new class, came to me and said, "Why did you think of changing your major to the Chinese Department? One of the most difficult majors for college students to find employment every year is Chinese Language and Literature! Besides, after you change majors, you will have to study in three majors. Completing four years of other people's courses within 2 years, if you can't finish it, you may face the problem of delayed graduation!"
I said, "I stepped into the jungle, because I want to live meaningfully, and I want to live profoundly. , absorb all the essence of life, and destroy everything that is not life, lest when my life ends, I find that I have never lived."
It's very hypocritical, right, because this is a line in "Dead Poets Society", Thoreau's "Val" Sentences from Deng Lake.
Thoreau said that "most people live in peaceful despair". Don't get into this situation, rush out. Don't run away like a mouse, look around you, and dare to open up your own world. (This is also a line in the movie)
I always feel that the best thing I have done for the past two decades is to switch majors.
After changing majors, the academic burden can be imagined. But I did it in three years and didn't pull the class back. And in these three years, I have written ten books for the publishing house, and the fee for these ten books is enough for me to live and eat in the last three years of college. Because of these ten books, I easily found a job, and although I didn't earn much money, it was enough for me to stop in the metropolis of Guangzhou.
I have always believed that a lot of times, people are distinguished by courage. Along the way, I was occasionally frustrated, but always brave, and at the beginning, all the courage stemmed from the movie "Dead Poets Society".
The best way I can pay homage to a film I love so much is to watch it over and over again. Today Robin Williams passed away, and I remembered the last scene of the movie, the teenagers standing in high places watched him leave silently and with dignity.
Every time I see this scene, I burst into tears!
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