Jay Chou, 40 years old, is the king of Chinese music, with a happy family and strong ability to absorb gold. She is a winner in life.
However, when we look at his growth history, he used to be just a "poor student" who was born in a single-parent family and didn't go to college.
After graduating from high school, he worked in a restaurant with a monthly salary of only 900 yuan. Once, when he was serving food, he accidentally spilled it on another waiter. The boss will deduct a word from 450 yuan, so Jay Chou has to swallow her tears silently and go on working.
This starting point is lower than many people. However, in the end, he achieved something that few people could match.
Why him? Apart from the unrepeatable personal factors such as talent and opportunity, he won the favor of fate by virtue of his love and persistence in music rather than being knocked down by the hardships of life.
If the hardship of life is regarded as an exam, how to pass the exam mainly depends on one's attitude and choice.
Few people can perfectly unify their lives and dreams.
Most people are faced with the following situations: if they want to do what they are most interested in, the quality of life cannot be guaranteed; If you want to get a good income, you must accept a job that you don't like very much.
For Jay Chou, who just graduated from high school, the situation is even more severe. If you don't get employment quickly, survival may be a problem, let alone future development.
So he took a job that had nothing to do with music. But people who really love will not give up their efforts on the pretext that life is not easy.
Jay Chou spends almost all his salary on buying tapes, and usually listens to music when he has nothing to do.
As mentioned above, when he was serving, he didn't pay attention to it for a while because he was listening to music while serving, and spilled it on his colleagues. Half of his salary was deducted by the boss, and he was very sad because he had no money to buy tapes that month. Besides, he has been writing songs.
Many people know that Jay Chou was excavated by Wu Zongxian. But if it weren't for Jay Chou's persistence in adversity, how could he come up with excellent works to impress each other when he met Wu Zongxian?
It's too easy to find a reason to stop for one thing. It's raining today, so don't exercise.
I'm too tired to work overtime today, so I won't read. I don't feel well today, so I will write a report tomorrow. This reason makes the heart calm, but it also destroys the dream unconsciously.
Dreams that are too easy to give up may not be dreams at all. What you will find an excuse not to do may not be what you want to do in the first place.
Only those who truly take dreams as horses will be fearless of the challenges of life, bypass mountains, rivers and bridges, and keep moving towards their goals.
Nightingale, the founder of the International Red Cross, said: "I never make excuses and I don't accept any excuses." She has also practiced this sentence all her life.
1853, the Crimean war broke out, and the report sent back from the front said that the medical rescue conditions of the British army were very bad, and the death rate of the wounded was as high as 42%. As a nurse, nightingale immediately led 38 nurses to the front line after hearing this letter.
In the social environment at that time, nurses had a low status and were looked down upon. A 35-year-old female nurse went to the battlefield, and the material conditions and public opinion conditions were very difficult. When they first arrived at the field hospital, the arrogant doctor simply refused to let them into the ward.
But nightingale didn't complain. She started with improving her diet and washing clothes, and washed 10000 shirts in three months. He also took out his savings to help the hospital acquire medicines, equipment and wards, and the number of patients admitted to the hospital doubled.
She won the recognition of military doctors and the love of wounded soldiers with her organization, scheduling and nursing ability.
After nightingale's efforts, half a year later, the death rate of the British wounded dropped from 42% to 2%, which shocked the British ruling and opposition parties.
Since then, people's concept of nurses has changed, and the nursing industry has attracted the attention of the whole society and continues to this day. It can be said that without nightingale, there would be no nurse system today.
Nightingale made no excuses when she was in trouble, so she could create conditions unconditionally and finally realize a miracle.
Not making excuses is an attitude. Attitude determines choice, choice determines action, and action creates results.
Frustration and tribulation are a cup of colorless and tasteless water. Whether it is sweet or bitter depends on what you add to it. "Seasoning" is your mentality.
Look at it with a pessimistic attitude, it will bring you pain; But looking at it with an optimistic attitude will be a unique experience and experience.
There is one of the most important songs in Jay Chou's life, which changed his fate.
18 years old, Jay Chou signed up for the entertainment program "Super Newcomer King" and made her debut with her own songs.
Out of shyness, he asked his friends to sing and accompany him. But my friend sang so badly that the audience hissed.
At this moment, Wu Zongxian, the host, just stood beside the judges, picked up the music and looked at it. He was surprised-this young man can write such a complicated music score, and it is promising!
As soon as the show was over, he went backstage to find Jay Chou and signed a contract with him. This is the later story.
The name of that song is "Menu Song". The song has not been released on the public platform, so I don't know its details. But from the name, the inspiration must come from the experience of working in a restaurant.
Master Wu Guanzhong once said: "Real artists grow up in suffering." For artists, suffering is the fuel of their life engine, which helps them go further on the road of art.
This summer, there is a music variety show "Summer of the Band" which is very popular. The biggest dark horse in the program is a band called Jiulian Real People.
Before the show, almost no one knew the real life of Jiulian, and there were only nine fans in Weibo. In the program, they became an instant hit with Don't Bully the Poor, and then they became popular all the way, and the number of fans in Weibo also rose to 200,000.
Jiulian Zhenren comes from Lianping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, and is a provincial poverty-stricken county. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression doesn't even call here.
During their growing up, the three members of the band have seen many stories caused by social problems such as son preference and left-behind children. One of the members, Amai, is a left-behind child; These experiences and stories are compiled into songs, so that the songs of Jiulian real people always have a particularly touching power.
In a promotion competition, Jiulian chose a song "North Wind", which describes street vendors who insist on getting up early to set up stalls in the cold wind for their livelihood.
A few days before the recording of the program, there was a rainstorm in Lianping County, which caused the worst flood in 20 years. The school where Amai works was the hardest hit. At that time, the band was going to record in Beijing. After learning the news, they collapsed and cried, but they couldn't go back and had to go on stage.
In that scene, they have been in tears, and their worries about their hometown are integrated into the performance, which coincides with the theme of the song and expresses the feelings of small and medium-sized vendors in the song about the future. Complete a high-level performance and finally get high votes.
Later, they also wrote this flood into the next stage of the song "A Wave", expressing their determination not to give in easily. This song is also loved by many people.
Setbacks and tribulations are compulsory courses for everyone's life. You can choose to let it beat you, or let it make you.
If a person's generation is three digits, then one digit is persistence, one digit is ability, and the most important one hundred digits is opportunity.
Almost all successful people will seize two or three important opportunities in life and leap to new heights at once. Most of the rest of the time, they try to stay at this height and wait for the next opportunity.
However, fate is not fair. The harder life is, the less opportunities there are for him. On the other hand, because life is not easy, they will cherish every opportunity, but they can make the best use of it.
After Jay Chou went to Wu Zongxian's studio, he devoted himself to writing songs and soon created a lot of songs. However, those songs were weird in the mainstream aesthetics at that time and were not accepted by the music circle. Wu Zongxian was a little disappointed.
Once, Jay Chou sent a new song to Wu Zongxian. Wu Zongxian saw Jay Chou gloating and wanted to test him, so he crumpled up the lyrics and threw them into the trash can next to him.
Jay Chou turned away without saying a word and wept silently. He can go out on his high horse and laugh at the sky. We are Artemisia people. But he knew that once he chose to leave, he would be beaten back to his original shape. No, you must admit it!
Jay Chou is more diligent, writing a song in seven days at the speed of writing a song every day.
His persistence finally moved Wu Zongxian and promised to find a singer to sing his works. But after several attempts, it was rejected. Wu Zongxian finally decided to let Jay Chou sing his own song.
Then, with the blockbuster album Jay, the door of the new world finally opened in front of Jay Chou.
No matter how hard life is, there are always people who believe that my life is up to me.
Love, don't make excuses, cherish opportunities. As long as you are not defeated, all setbacks and hardships will not be in vain.
The world kisses me with pain, I respond with a song, and it will bloom eventually.