Writing an essay about "giving and gaining", we can introduce the importance of giving up. For example, giving up some unnecessary materials can make us reduce our burden and become more relaxed; giving up some unnecessary things Good habits and self-awareness can make us jump out of our comfort zone and become better; letting go of some relationships that are not good for us can allow us to gain truly meaningful relationships, etc. You can also show it through your own personal experience and learn the skills and methods of giving up and getting, so that you can more accurately choose what you need to give up in your future life, so as to achieve a happy and beautiful life in the true sense.

The following are three sample essays I collected about giving and gaining. You can refer to them:

Sample Essay 1: Giving and Gaining Composition

Giving and Gaining Knowing that there is nothing you can do about it and being at peace with it is the ultimate virtue. ——Zhuangzi

People do not do anything, and then they can do something. ——Mencius

Zhuangzi said that the highest state of morality is to accept your fate when you have no choice but to do so. Mencius said that only by giving up something can you do something else. Only by giving up can you gain. Only by giving up the things you can't do anything about can you accomplish great things.

Giving up and gaining is a required course in life. Life is composed of countless "giving up" and "gaining". Giving up is directly proportional to gaining, and life is also a circuit between "giving up" and "gaining". Huang Xuhua, the "Father of Nuclear Submarines" of China, has remained anonymous for more than thirty years for the sake of the country's nuclear submarine industry. When he returned home by chance, his daughter said he was "on a business trip" and his wife said he was a "real Hakka". Even when his father passed away, he could not go home to attend the funeral. He and his mother had not seen each other for 30 years. During the deep-diving experiment in the South China Sea, he took the opportunity to go back to visit his mother. The 95-year-old mother saw her son whom she had not seen for 30 years. She was familiar yet unfamiliar, but soon she was moved to tears. Huang Xuhua sacrificed so much for the cause of the motherland, but he gained the understanding of his family, the affirmation of the motherland, and the respect of the people.

"Giving up" and "getting" are different for different people. They are whether the things that can be seen are worth giving up for another thing. In Huang Xuhua's view, his contribution to China's nuclear submarine industry is worth giving up his fame and time with his family. So he gave them up. Finally, he got what he wanted - the successful voyage of the nuclear submarine into the sea. In the choice between giving and taking, no one can escape for thousands of years. Some people always hope to gain something, while others are willing to give to the world. King You of Zhou abandoned the country and the country for the sake of a beautiful woman, and played with the princes by beacon fire; Yu the Great abandoned his family in order to control the floods and protect the people, and failed to enter the house three times; Zhuangzi abandoned the salary of a high official in order to seek freedom, and trailed his tail in the middle of the painting; Zang gave up his comfort in order to promote Buddhism and went through ups and downs for forty years.

In the eyes of King You of Zhou, beauty is more important than the country, and he only smiles for beautiful women; in the eyes of Dayu, the well-being of the people is more important than anything else; in the eyes of Zhuangzi, freedom is more important than fame and wealth; in the eyes of Xuanzang, promotion The Dharma is more important than their own comfort. They give up the things they have no choice but to get what they want.

Only by making appropriate choices and having the courage to give up can you achieve success on the road of life.

Example 2: Essay on Giving and Gain

On a pleasant journey, we kept moving forward. Although the scenery along the way was beautiful, it was not as good as the wonderful scenery at the destination. Should we abandon the scenery along the way or the scenery at the destination?

It is a majestic tower. We insist on climbing up. Every time we climb the stairs, the scenery is naturally novel, but it is not as majestic as the scenery at the top of the tower. Should we give up the scenery on the stairs or the majestic scenery at the top of the tower?

Life is like a drama, it is not perfect. We are the planners of the drama, and there are naturally wonderful things and mistakes in the drama. We can’t just get criticism and we can’t all get plaudits. So life teaches us that we can’t have our cake and eat it too, we can’t get everything.

In the tropical rainforest of South Africa, there is a cute little animal. If a hunter wants to catch it, he has a good way: the hunter finds some tree holes, which are about the same size as their paws, and then goes into the tree. Just put some food they like in the hole. The next day, if they find these tree holes, they will put their claws in to get food, but they have taken too many things and can't stretch out their claws. They don't know that they need to grab less food to escape and get food. Just like that, they were caught by hunters.

I really feel sorry for them. If they knew how to give up, they wouldn’t be caught by hunters for this! But aren’t we sometimes just like these little animals, we don’t know how to give up and just want to get it, but in the end we suffer a lot?

So, life teaches us that when we can’t have our cake and eat it too, we must know how to gain something by giving up.

Just like the Empress Dowager Zhao gave up the temporary comfort of Lord Chang'an in order to gain the safety of Zhao and Lord Chang'an's future success;

Just like Tao Yuanming in order to gain his own tranquility and indifferent integrity , giving up the glory and wealth of officialdom;

Just like Xi Shi gave up her flowery youth to become a concubine in the Wu Palace in order to revive the Yue Kingdom.

The ancients also taught us that only by giving up can we gain.

If you give up, you will gain. This is the belief we must stick to in our life. Life is fair, if you give up something, you will gain something.

Sample Essay 3: Essay on Giving and Gaining

In people’s eyes, “giving up” is a sign of cowardice and incompetence, while “getting” is a kind of happiness and taking advantage of something. The joy after. In my eyes, the so-called "giving up" means wisdom and freedom; the so-called "gain" means sweat and persistence. Just like the word "giving up", there is "gain" only when there is "giving up", small giving up will lead to small gains, and big giving up will lead to big gains. The words "giving up" and "gaining" depend on how you choose. Maybe without the fetters of the things you give up, you will find that your pace is easier.

On a desolate island, there were two people who were about to starve to death. When they were dying, an old man came and said to the two young people: "I have a basket here. Fish and a fishing rod, each of you can choose one." After speaking, he pointed to a basket of fish and a fishing rod behind him. Of the two young men, one wanted to go fishing and thought it was a long-term solution, so he chose the fishing rod. Another person took a basket of fish and thought that filling his stomach was the most important thing. So, the first person took the fishing rod to the fishing platform, while the other person lit a fire on the spot, cooked the fish, and ate them all. Seeing this scene, the old man shook his head in disappointment and left. Of the two young men, one could not catch a fish because there was no bait, and eventually starved to death; the other, after eating, although he persisted for a while, eventually starved to death.

If you think about it carefully, the first young man has lofty ambitions, but they are not practical; the other is short-sighted and only plans for the immediate situation without thinking about the future. Think about it, if they can put aside their own interests, not be selfish, and share existing resources together, wouldn't they be able to survive together?

What a rich philosophy of life this sentence contains! We are just like birds flying in the sky. If we cherish our feathers too much and don't want them to get hurt, then we will never learn to fly. There will be many choices in life. Let us first know how to "give up" and then "get". When we learn to give up, we will know how to cherish.