Don’t be afraid of time and live up to yourself

People often lament: The flowing light easily throws people away, red cherries and green bananas. Especially when I see the slight frost on my temples and the wrinkles on my face, I feel even more afraid of the passing of time.

Everyone wants to stay young forever, and emperors in the past dynasties even want to live a long life. Some even waste money and people in search of the elixir of immortality. How can a woman retain her youth and live like an "old fairy" that everyone loves? The book "Time Never Defeats Beauty" shows everyone the life of Audrey Hepburn, the elegant goddess recognized by the world, who defeated the years.

The author of "Time Never Defeats Beauty" is contemporary young writer Ji Yunshang. He has published "The Biography of the Independent Goddess Chanel" and "The Biography of the Graceful Ci Poetry Girl Li Qingzhao". With his delicate writing style, he has written many wonderful works. Ordinary people lead wonderful lives.

The main content of this book can be summarized into three key points. First, you should still love life after seeing the truth of life clearly. Second, create a personalized self. Third, kindness and love are the source of life.

1. Still love life after seeing the truth of life

Life will not be sunshine everywhere, and life will not be smooth all the way. Warm sunshine in spring, green shade in summer, fallen leaves in autumn, and snow in winter are all beautiful things that nature bestows on the world.

People are accustomed to this in their daily lives, and have never thought about the preciousness of this ordinary thing. However, for some people, these are great extravagances.

In the eyes of a child, the happiest thing is having his parents by his side every day and living an ordinary life. But during Audrey's childhood, there were endless quarrels between her parents, and they used the most vicious words to attack each other. When her parents quarreled, little Audrey could only hide under the table, biting her fingers to avoid crying, or run to the outskirts to talk to her squirrel friends about what was on her mind.

Facing this family truth, not only did she not resent her father, but she remembered his father's love and the sweetness of the world. The gentle kiss her father gave her every night after she fell asleep, and her father's black velvet-like eyes left her with the warmest memory of her childhood. Hearing her father's footsteps, little Audrey pretended to fall asleep, and then quietly enjoyed the comfort of his eyes. It was her father's blessing that became the source of love in her life.

Later, her father left her and her mother. The pain of not having a complete family is already a great misfortune for a child. However, to make matters worse, she also encountered a world war. The misfortune and pain that war brings to people are unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.

Faced with such life difficulties, Audrey still maintained her great enthusiasm for life. People can't help but think of the diving champion Quan Hongchan. Her family conditions are difficult, her mother is frail and sick, and she unfortunately suffered a car accident. Her father supports the entire family by herself, but she is able to exercise strongly and eventually win the women's diving championship at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. . When the reporter asked about her wish, she said: work hard to make money to treat her mother's illness. No one can change their original family, they can only maintain hope and confidence in life.

The war interrupted Audrey's just-started ballet career, bringing all the good things to an abrupt end. Overnight, the family became impoverished. As the war continued, food became a great difficulty. Sometimes a family did not eat for several days and could only rely on drinking water to maintain life. They relied on willpower and hunger to fight, not knowing which one would come first tomorrow or death. Come.

After the war, the difficult years finally passed. When Audrey was full of desire and hope to embrace a new life and devote all her energy to her favorite dance, reality gave her a blow in the head. She was told that the mismatch between her age and stage experience, coupled with her physical injuries in the war and other factors, had determined her upper limit.

Her dream was completely shattered, and she experienced unprecedented pain and despair. However, she was not knocked down by the cruel reality. She looked back in time to find the exit of life. Her ballet journey had lost its best period, but for the journey of life, she had just started.

Many years later, people called her an angel on earth and the daughter of God. At that time, she had not yet been to heaven, but she had already experienced the suffering of hell.

Although the years were wasted and her feelings were broken, she was still willing to stretch out her arms to embrace the days to come.

2. Create a unique self

After the war, Audrey lived with her mother in London. Audrey worked busy, even working three part-time jobs at the same time. There is a long road ahead, and her life has just begun. She strives to improve herself and take every step of her life well. When her opponents questioned and criticized her, she accepted them fully and accepted her imperfections.

She always reminds herself: Studying cannot be neglected, because as you get older, your beautiful appearance will always get older, but only strength can make you invincible and can compete with time. Confrontation is the premise suitable for all the good things in life.

Only when a person, especially a woman, lives out her own style and has her own job can she become an independent and confident person.

Maintaining your own individuality means that you don’t need to cater to others and turn yourself into what others see.

The great poet Li Bai would not cater to others and maintained his unique personality. He said: How can I be able to bend my eyebrows and bend my waist to serve the powerful and make me unhappy? If it weren't for his fearlessness of power and his independence from the world, where would the eternal poetry immortal be?

In Roman Holiday, Audrey performed the image of a princess with full personality. Her rule is: refuse to be the same, refuse to cater and please. The torrent of the times is rolling forward, but personality will never fade. She would not change her appearance to cater to other people's aesthetics. She would rather give up the opportunity to play a role than lose herself to cater to others.

His good friend and fashion designer Givenchy worked hard to help her find her own way of dressing, which should be elegant and outstanding, but also consistent with her personal style. Her style is "my style" ", "I make the decision", the same applies to career and destiny.

In life, many people like to follow the trend, follow the trend, or imitate big-name celebrities, and end up with the consequences of "learning to walk in Handan".

Editor-in-chief Liu, the vice president of Youshu, said in the "Voice Realization Class": Not every student's voice should be pronounced like a radio announcer, nor should it be like a high school Chinese teacher. In that way, speaking standard Mandarin just allows everyone to form their own voice characteristics. A sound is not popular because it is perfect, but attractive because it is unique.

Teacher Dai Jianye, known as the "National Professor" by the majority of netizens, has a unique "Macheng" Mandarin that has become a major feature of him. He makes the originally boring ancient poetry class lively, interesting and humorous. Humorous and unforgettable.

Every cloud in the sky forms a different shape; every tree in the forest grows in a unique way; there is a unique grain of sand in the desert, hiding in the crevices of the rocks. , never follow the wind, everyone should maintain their own characteristics in order to be invincible.

3. Kindness and love are the source of life

Life is long and time is like a knife. Beauty alone cannot withstand the erosion of time. Only by constantly practicing the ability to love and being kind to others can we survive the years.

When others fail her and do things that are sorry for her, Audrey chooses to forgive and understand. She hopes to be independent, free, kind, wise, and gentle.

Her mother, Ella, has always been engaged in public welfare undertakings. Before she died, she left Audrey only one last will: Never be stingy with your kindness. After her mother's death, Audrey began to participate in charity work.

Kindness knows no borders. In daily life, when walking on the street, you can see volunteers wearing "red vests" everywhere, guiding traffic, maintaining order, and bringing great convenience to people's daily travel.

Also during the epidemic, thousands of medical workers, in order to win the "anti-epidemic" and protect people's lives, sacrificed themselves and used their goodwill to build a white Great Wall.

What should a woman do to prevent herself from withering? Believe in love and always be passionate about life. Only by living your life as a work of art can you live more preciously and not be confused by age. Only with goodwill and love in your heart can you keep the source of life clear and never dry up.

Later, Audrey became a publicly appointed Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.

For the sake of those suffering children, she traveled across mountains and rivers. The job only paid a symbolic remuneration of one dollar for travel without any subsidy. There was a huge risk of contracting diseases and personal injury, but she still felt extremely honored. For her, this is her way of giving thanks and a holy mission.

She went to Ethiopia to get vaccinated and sign documents. At that time, Ethiopia was the poorest country in the world. Civil strife broke out and countless children were on the verge of death. In an orphanage, Audrey swaddled the babies, kissed their faces, brushed flies away from them, and gave snacks to the older children.

She learned to talk to the children in the local language. After her trip to Ethiopia, Audrey took all the video materials with her to hold press conferences and fundraisers in developed countries to achieve a more upright society. People make donations to disaster areas.

Choosing kindness is choosing a mission. For her, it is not only an obligation, but the meaning of living as a human being. For more children, she can travel around the world doing shows, holding events, and giving lectures.

If you have kindness in your heart, time will never defeat the beauty. During the epidemic, an 83-year-old waste picker in Huzhou, Zhejiang, donated 10,000 yuan to support the fight against the epidemic. Think about it, for an old man scavenging, how long it takes to save 10,000 yuan, how difficult it is, but he still dedicated his kind heart.

In 1989, Audrey participated in the filming of the movie "Forever". After that, she donated all the US$1 million in salary from the movie to the United Nations Children's Fund to help refugees in disaster areas. them.

Audrey’s power is just the light of a firefly to all the refugee children in the world, but she always believes that although this light is weak, it is enough to illuminate a child’s hope. In despair, he did not give up the possibility of survival.

Just like Teacher Zhang Guimei, who won the National Medal of Merit, she has been taking root in the mountains for decades, regardless of remuneration and illness, and has silently dedicated her life to the education of the mountains. Her kindness from the bottom of her heart lifted the dreams and lives of poor girls in mountainous areas.

The surprises in the world often come from accumulated kindness. Be considerate of your family, treat your friends sincerely, think more about others, and do your best to help others.

To summarize the essence of this book: see the truth of life clearly, taste the bitterness of life, and still be passionate about life. In life, you can stick to your own personality. Be kind and beautiful throughout your life, be willing to do good deeds, and live the way you like. Don’t be afraid of time and live up to yourself!