? Friends who are familiar with me know that I have a group of five best friends. We read, travel, and run marathons together. The scope of our chats can be said to be from poetry to life philosophy. I believe there will be many people who are envious and curious and want to ask, how did you meet in the first place and how did you get along so well? Well, this is a good question, but the answer is very simple. We met because of a reading club, we know each other because we practice the same values, and we stay together because we have the same life ideals. Haha, why are you talking like you are in love?
? In my opinion, having like-minded friends in life is equally important as having a partner who supports each other. Our group of friends have experienced very unforgettable memories together, such as running a full marathon for the first time, which was 42 kilometers. If we were alone, I probably wouldn’t have been able to continue, but it became different because of the company of friends. Accompanying you from the starting point to the finish line, finishing the race together, holding the medal, you can even smile with tiredness in your eyes at that time. In 2017, a group of our friends experienced many firsts together. For the first time, we went to Nanjing to swim on the Qinhuai River, visit the Confucius Temple, visit the Pioneer Bookstore with excitement, and also went to Yangzhou to participate in a marathon; the first time We went to Qingdao to participate in the West Coast Night Marathon. A few of us were running on the track at around 11 p.m., looking at the lights of thousands of houses in the residential areas on the roadside. We said that we were simply the weirdest among the weird, and everyone was asleep most of the night. Well, we have to spend the whole night running, welcoming the first ray of sunshine in the morning and watching the sun rise from the sea. What a wonderful experience. It is worth having such an experience once in a lifetime.
These unforgettable and meaningful experiences not only enrich life but also enrich brain thinking. These changes of ours are inseparable from reading. Without reading, we would not have a more three-dimensional and positive outlook on life. perspective; without reading, we would not have a higher vision and pattern to examine our lives; without reading, we would not have better expectations and yearnings for seeing the world. This is what reading brings us extremely rich As a gift, many people think that reading is useless. I think they only focus on the liquidity after reading, and ignore the changes in self-perception and spiritual enrichment that reading brings to you. Because we ourselves have changed due to reading, several of our good friends also want to use the reading club as a platform to bring friends who love life and reading together to share and talk about the books we have read and our own experiences. Stories enhance understanding through communication. If the tiny power of this small group can influence some people, even a small part, our book club will be very meaningful.
? In today's fast-paced era of materialism and money first, people are busy working and making money to support their families. Reading, traveling and making friends have become very luxurious things, let alone having a good life. Sit down and chat. A few of us were chatting in the group last week, and we all agreed to hold a small book club on the weekend. The theme was "Meeting a Better Self Again". Everyone would share at least one book, and there was no limit on the number of people. No one will be turned away. The time is set at 9 a.m. on Saturday, and the location is Manman Coffee in the High-tech Zone, a very elegant environment and a good place for reading and communication. We met on time at nine o'clock in the morning. There were new friends who were here for the first time, as well as old friends who were close to each other. Everyone brought books and notebooks to share the stories behind each book and their own experiences.
Everyone has a purpose to study, because everyone has different work, different focus, and different problems. It can be said that everyone has his own demands for reading. Find solutions to problems in books and apply them to practical problems, rather than simply reading for the sake of reading. As the ancients said, it is better to believe in books than to have no books at all. Next, let’s talk about the books my friends shared this time.
Sister Xinquan recommended to us a best-selling book "The Five Love Languages" about solving communication problems in close relationships, and introduced us how to deal with spouses, friends, children, colleagues, etc. Interpersonal problems.
Our modern workplace girl Zong Zong recommended to us the best-selling book "Lean In" by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg based on her own work experience and current situation, telling us what to do Be brave enough to pursue your goals and have a great career.
Because of the problems we encountered at work, Xiaojing recommended the Taiwanese version of the book "The Surrender Experiment" to us. It tells us that "surrender" is not passive, passive, cowardly, timid, nor does it mean to compromise or go with the flow. True surrender is to bravely let go of oneself and fully embrace the current changes, which means learning to accept and accept first. Then, you will see all kinds of surprises that life has arranged for you that are beyond your expectations.
? Xiaojing’s classmate and colleague Wang Man, a girl from Xi’an, shared with us her experiences and feelings at work and personal growth, and put forward the team management issues she encounters at work now Regarding the problems and confusions she had, other friends gave her very effective suggestions.
My colleague Shu'e recommended Da Bing's book to us. When mentioning Da Bing, many people will think of the sentence in the book that describes the life that many people yearn for. They can work from nine to five. , you can also travel around the world. It is almost impossible for most of us to travel around the world, but on the premise of working hard from 9 to 5 and giving ourselves material prosperity, we can see more of the world in our spare time.
2017 was a very complicated year for me. I experienced happy surprises, and also experienced pain that was too painful to live with. During the most painful period of time, a book always accompanied me. What sticks with me is the book "Tuesday Date" that I recommend, "An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Life Lesson". This is a sentence written on the cover of "Tuesday Date". The book tells these fourteen lessons, involving many components of life, how to face others, how to face love, how to face fear, how to face family, As well as relationships and marriage, money and culture, aging and death, the last class is the funeral of the old man, the whole process, and the notes of these fourteen classes constitute this "Tuesday Date". This book was once my pillow book and will always be in the future.
What Si Xia shared with us is a very practical book "Deliberate Practice", which tells us the secret magic weapon from novice to master, and the most effective way to improve skills and abilities no matter what industry or field. They all follow a common method, which is called "deliberate practice."
Xing'er shared her in-depth travel experience in Dali and Lijiang. Through the two years of marriage, she told us how family members get along with each other and how to deal with the relationship with their lover and children. , the relationship between parents-in-law. She is simply a philosopher of life. Under her wise management, her family is happy and she has become more and more refined. She has fallen in love with yoga and fitness, and she recommended the book "Sports Diet 1:9" on diet to us. How can we lose weight easily through proper diet and exercise.
We chatted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and we still had a lot to talk about. Haha, we all said that more reading activities like this should be held in the future. There is a saying that many people should have heard. "Life is not just about the present, but also poetry and distance." Many people think that poetry and distance are the lifestyles of literary and artistic youth. In fact, this is not the case. You have to understand the meaning of life and the purpose of working hard to make money. , isn’t it about enjoying the beauty of life? In my opinion, poetry and distance are a stopping point and a rest stop in our busy working life. Rather than a distant lifestyle that belongs exclusively to literary and artistic youth. After busy work, occasionally give your body and mind a break, go out, change the scenery and change your mood. Friends in the reading club will chat about the hardships of life, poetry and distant places, and most importantly, we talk about how to make our lives better. I feel that a good life is not just a yearning, but can be achieved through reading and certain methods. Only when you have a goal in life can you live it vigorously and have hope.
? The way you use time determines who you are now. We are very fortunate that on the weekends, when many people are sleeping at home and watching TV series under the covers, we go out to read with good friends and have a spiritual appointment. We will have more meaningful events like this in the future Activities, we welcome all friends who love life to come. We are waiting for you in the next reading club. We hope that each of us can meet a better version of ourselves here.