It is the afternoon work time, and batches of construction workers are heading to the construction site. The sunshine, wind and rain, and the ruthless years, carved deep and shallow wrinkles on their faces together. I walked through these tired but energetic men and women, and went to the "construction site" that needed me to work.
The interview failed. I walked dejectedly next to the iron wall surrounding the construction site. Suddenly, I saw that a construction worker was walking refreshed about ten meters in front.
End of summer and early autumn, not far from the riverside, and the wind was strong. As he walked, he opened his arms wide and let the wind blow his blue vest, slip into his T-shirt that could not distinguish the true colors, and jumped all the way, very happy.
Later I saw that he was a young man, in his prime. He smiled, enjoying the breeze in the sun, put on his hard hat and walked into the construction site.
I will tell a friend this, and the original intention is to express that in this impetuous contemporary era, when everyone wants to make quick money, it is very rare for young people to stay, go to the construction site to endure hardships, devote themselves to labor and work hard.
Friends said that there are fewer and fewer young people on construction sites, and this phenomenon is actually an inevitable phenomenon in social development. In today's press conference of the Ministry of Education, it was pointed out that in 2021, my country's working-age population reached 10.9 years, of which 24.9% had received higher education, an increase of 10.3% over 2012. The country's population with university education exceeded 218 million. This also means that the number of young people providing intellectual support for economic development is increasing. Relatively speaking, the proportion of practical talents in physical labor places such as construction sites, truck loading and unloading sites, and kilns has naturally decreased.
Modern education has become popularized. Most people have gone through at least nine years of compulsory education, which has also added many ways to understand the world, so the ways to make money will not be limited to physical labor. You can't accuse them of being unwilling to endure hardships, because like delivery and waiters, even employees in offices and grassroots cadres in government units, everyone is enduring hardships and using different methods to create wealth.
I agree with his words. I thought about it carefully and actually I did not appreciate the hardships, but the hardships of using physical labor, which in turn acted as a higher level of spirituality, and that's all.
in "Ordinary World" Sun Shaoping . After two years of being a teacher, he had to go back to the village to farm due to policy changes. Later, he became a construction worker for his own world of thought. The construction worker was his skin and hunched over. Then he went to work as a coal miner, almost losing his life and finally ruining his face. But these difficulties and hardships cannot stop him from moving forward and thinking. He understands life through labor and understands the true meaning of life - "Life contains a broader meaning, not what I actually get; the key is whether our hearts are full."
According to appearance and profession, we have no way to judge a person’s inner thoughts. If he is educated, he can think of the profound significance of the ideals of people, people and life, and people and life from the heavy physical labor, just like Sun Shaoping, which is quite remarkable. And if he has not received any education or has received very little education, it does not hinder his thinking about life. Just like Sun Shaoping's brother - Sun Shaoan , he dropped out of school early because of his family's poverty, but he was in the work of the Holy Lake. When thinking about it, he first became the captain of the first team of Shuangshui Village. Later, he was able to spontaneously propose the idea of contracting a responsibility team in the early stage of policy change. Later, he started his own brick factory. At the same time, he could also think of helping those villagers who were one step behind in this reform, even if they failed, they made a comeback with their unyielding will and became the strongest man in Shuangshui Village.
Teach work, reap results, and repay life. This is the simplest and most effective thinking and practical action.
"Only labor can make people strong in life. No matter who people, in the end, we must advocate those workers who can create life with their hands." - Lu Yao "Ordinary World".
