In my heart, the best song about ideals is not "Ideal" by Zhao Lei, nor "Ideal Thirty" by Chen Hongyu, but "A Day in the Forest" by Xiaohe (He Guofeng) tree".

The first time I heard this song "A Tree in the Forest" was at the Ningbo Damao "Eleven People's Ideal" Folk Music Festival. Xiaohe was the last guest performer at the night scene. There were half as many people as during the day, so I stopped checking my ticket and stood closest to him. Xiaohe did not sing this song at the beginning, but sang "The high-flying bird will not fall on the back of the slow-moving cow" and waited two or three songs before singing. The moment the Zhongruan melody sounded, my nose felt sore. I couldn't stop crying as soon as Xiao He opened his mouth. I listened quietly and cried quietly from beginning to end, like a down-and-out child or a dog.

When listening to Xiaohe singing this song, it seems like he is not listening to a song, but like he is talking to a wise old man. This wise old man sat across from me. He was neither impatient nor impatient, gentle, firm and powerful. He told me as soon as he opened his mouth: A tree in the forest has leaves, flowers and fruits. Birds come to look for food, and bees come to eat. Come and build a nest, the little squirrel sleeps under the leaves.

When I heard this sentence with the same lyrics, I burst into tears.

"Child, you are just a tree in the forest. Have you forgotten? You are self-sufficient with all your internal organs. This is very important. Don't forget it again." This is the river I heard What you said to me. I know what he is talking about to me, it is an ideal!

I also know what Xiaohe wants to tell me. He wants to tell me: Don’t abandon your ideals! Although you are small, although you are weak, even though you are only one person! But although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs! You are sufficient! As long as you don’t abandon or extinguish the fire in your heart! Just throw yourself out there and take action! Sooner or later you will realize it!

It’s just that I don’t know how Xiaohe knew that I was about to abandon my ideals due to life and age. Some time ago, I saw an article about turning 30 on One One. There was a sentence in the comment that fit my heart very well - I wanted to give up but was unwilling to do so, and I wanted to struggle but didn't dare.

Later, Xiaohe told me, he said: "A tree in the forest does not need to know that it is a tree." When I heard this sentence, I cried until I gasped. Yes, I am also a tree in the forest. I don’t need to deliberately know that I am a tree.

Later, there was a chorus on and off the stage. According to folklore, Wang Qingmu of cross talk is the most beautiful and loudest singer, and the singing sound spreads from the ears to the heart. I just don’t know how many of the people listening to the song that night were in tears like me, having a dialogue with themselves and their ideals. Everyone that night was a tree in the forest.

Teacher Xiaohe wore a dark blue sweater that day. The sweater was embroidered with flowers and plants. When Xiaohe sang this song, these flowers and plants became like flying cranes. The cranes followed the music. Teacher Xiaohe, who was roaming freely, was free as he wanted. When we are rejected by life and ideals, we have art.

The day after "Eleven People's Ideals" ended, Teacher Xiaohe said something on Weibo. The first sentence at the beginning hit my heart and gave me strength - there is no "mature" "Ideal" thing. In life, when we mention things like ideals or wishes, we often encounter either blows or ridicule. The best situation is incomprehension. However, these words of Teacher Xiaohe and other musicians who came to the charity performance to help out. , and Da Mao, who organized this music festival on his own, made me feel that maybe I can continue to insist on myself.

Every day after that, I carve six words in my heart: Don’t give up on your ideals.

Most of the musicians in the folk music industry today were those who went to Beijing to Beipiao in the mid-to-late 1990s and sang in bars. They were in their 20s at the time and were in the best years of their lives. Teacher Xiaohe It's one of them. 20 years later, I can still see them singing on the stage, which makes me very touched. They did not change paths and abandon their ideals because of difficulties or practical problems.

They are role models. Because it is not easy to give up your ideals, but what is more difficult than giving up is persistence.

My favorite entrepreneur is Luo Yonghao, CEO of Smartisan Technology. I admire his courageous character and style. He once said: By making money cleanly, people will believe that he can do it cleanly. It is possible to make money, to make people believe that it is possible to realize their ideals by realizing their ideals, and to make people believe that it is possible to change the world by changing the world, even in China.

I really like this sentence, and I still do. I have always hoped that I can make money cleanly by doing what I love. What I mean by clean means that I write my heart out with my hand, but I still can’t make money by handwriting my heart out. At that time, when my job in the real estate media became increasingly soft and my writing less and less had its own backbone, I was suffering internally.

Some time ago, a friend asked me: Why have I never been happy since we met me two years ago? At that time, all I knew was that I was crying because I was seen, and I kept thinking about the answer to this question afterwards. I asked myself why, and the answer I got was that you can't have things you love and people you don't love. My life will be dim and dull. Because this is the positioning and standard of my life values, not money or material things.

Since it is destined that one day all your teeth will fall out, your hair will turn white, your vision will be blurred, your legs and feet will become inoperable, and your skin will wrinkle, then why should you abandon your ideals? It's better to follow what Guo Xu sang - in the cold season, you should keep your ideals warm in your heart. Well, let's warm up this winter in our hearts first, and let it grow naturally (or desperately) when the flowers bloom next spring.

What is my ideal? I am doing media interviews and using my pen to record people with stories in this era, their joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows. I support myself by doing what I love and am good at, and I can take care of my family and the people who love me.

Don’t give up, always hold ideals and spring in your heart, and grow into a woman with light in her smile and eyes.

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2017.11.21