The headmaster listened to the lecture, which was inspiring.

Leaders, judges and young friends: Hello! My name is XX, and I am very happy to discuss with you the topic of pursuing Excellence and contributing to youth. Today, the topic of my speech is "Be willing to contribute and light the fire of youth". Let the fire of youth burn forever, let the lightning of life flash across the sky, exchange all the enthusiasm for time, and let the young dream have no end! I appreciate this passage in "Fire Youth" and have always used it to inspire my study, work and life. In my opinion, youth should burn and shine to be valuable! A person's life may burn or rot. In this case, I don't want to rot, nor can I rot. I want to burn! Friends present! Would you like to? Youth is the most beautiful season in our life. It breeds the vitality of early spring, shows the enthusiasm of midsummer, hides the abundance of autumn, indicates the hope of winter, is full of poetry and passion for struggle, is fashionable and romantic, and is full of hardships for struggle. When a person's youth is integrated into an era and a career, such youth will not be far away, and this career will certainly reflect dazzling light in the years that have passed. Having said that, I remembered this sentence: "Some people are alive, but they are dead; Some people are dead and he is still alive. " The meaning of life lies in living, so what is the meaning of living? Of course not for life, the answer is only two words, dedication! We can imagine that if we don't give, create and pursue, such youth will inevitably grow old in the fleeting time. Looking back, there are no traces, no memories, and life is full of sighs everywhere. I think this is definitely not the meaning of our existence. Throughout the ages, countless talented people have made immortal lives in their youth, and I have no time to list them here. However, there is one person whose name I can't help mentioning. He is our eternal role model, the most ordinary, selfless and greatest person. Does everyone know who he is? This legendary figure is Lei Feng. He warned us: "Youth is always beautiful, but true youth only belongs to those who always strive for the top, those who always forget their work and those who are always modest!" I think everyone here, including myself, can be such a person. To tell the truth, when I first came to work three years ago, I was very lost and at a loss. I feel that the reality is not satisfactory, and there is always a distance from my dream. I used to be confused. However, I am a young knife that has just been cast, and you are not allowed to wait and hesitate for a moment. I can't watch this knife slowly oxidize and lose its luster, then become mottled, corroded, weathered and finally become scrap iron. I told myself, "As long as you are gold, you can shine. As long as you face life and work with high fighting spirit, you will gain something. " There is a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down. Youth is the season of learning, and youth is the time of struggle. Don't stop our progress, because the road to youth is long. When you are free, calm down and read a good book, think back on the road you have traveled, make a plan for your life, engrave your ideals in your heart, and be a young man who is willing to be lonely, innovative and full of vitality. Youth is not a period of life, but a state of mind. If your mind is young, you will always keep many dreams, and you will still catch the golden sunshine that flashes in a cloudy day. Although we were born in different times and worked in different positions, we have the same entrepreneurial spirit, the same dedication and the same brilliant youth. This is a speech and a confession. When I stand here with youthful breath and heavy dreams and beliefs, my heart is so open and passionate, and I sincerely invite you to share it with me. To tell the truth, when I first came to work three years ago, I was very lost and at a loss. I feel that the reality is not satisfactory, there is always a distance from my dream, and I was once confused. However, I am a young knife that has just been cast, and you are not allowed to wait and hesitate for a moment. I can't watch this knife slowly oxidize and lose its luster, then become mottled, corroded, weathered and finally become scrap iron. I told myself, "As long as you are gold, you can shine. As long as you face life and work with high fighting spirit, you will gain something. " There is a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down. Youth is the season of learning, and youth is the time of struggle. Don't stop our progress, because the road to youth is long. When you are free, calm down and read a good book, think back on the road you have traveled, make a plan for your life, engrave your ideals in your heart, and be a young man who is willing to be lonely, innovative and full of vitality. We chose the machine factory. In a sense, we have chosen dedication. Away from the prosperity of the city, the noise of the city, precipitated the mood, stop here, take root and watch. We lost something, but we didn't lose the most precious youth. We have not failed our youth. We witness our growth with sweat and measure our value with dedication. In this desolate saline-alkali land, groups of new comrades have become old comrades, and new factories are their new lives, where people who are blooming with shining flowers of youth will never wither. Because those flowers have become fruits and eternal memories of history. Let me give this speech as a gift to you, to all the beautiful flowers of youth; Let me turn this speech into an oath, blow the horn of forging ahead in the hearts of our young people, and let her become the cornerstone of our victory and the driving force for progress. Youth is not a period of life, but a state of mind. If your mind is young, you will always keep many dreams, and you will still catch the golden sunshine that flashes in a cloudy day. Although we were born in different times and worked in different positions, we have the same entrepreneurial spirit, the same dedication and the same brilliant youth. This is a speech and a confession. When I stand here with youthful breath and heavy dreams and beliefs, my heart is so open and passionate, and I sincerely invite you to share it with me. Students, in this world, many people are not necessarily smart in the team of winners, and many people are not necessarily stupid in the team of losers. In fact, one thing is more important than a smart head, and that is a person's mind and will. A person's poverty is largely the poverty of the soul, and a person's success is largely the success of the will! Ma Jiajue incident, as we all know, what is his achilles heel? There is something wrong with thinking and fighting spirit. Before committing the crime, he spent a lot of time and energy searching for information on the internet: what tools are the most concealed to kill, what route to take when fleeing, and so on. He spent a lot of time thinking about this problem. However, he didn't think of his parents in the whole process. Ma Jiajue didn't expect that when his parents knelt down to those parents who brutally killed college students, those old people would think with sticks ...-This is a mental problem. In addition, his will is very weak, others can knock him down with a word, and he has the idea of killing people. Ma Jiajue is very clever. When everyone plays poker with his classmates, he always wins. His classmates played a joke on him. You have a problem with this boy. You always cheat at cards and always win. So, nobody likes you. You don't want to say that you are fake at the birthday party. For this sentence, Ma Jiajue gave birth to a murderous heart ... When giving birth to a child, no one would ask whether it was the president or the minister. Whether to be a boss or a wage earner; Whether it is a professor or a tramp, people will only ask: Is it a boy or a girl? Young master or daughter? For a newborn child, everything in the future is unknown, and no one knows and cannot know what kind of person he will become in the future. From this perspective, people are all the same at birth, and if there are any differences, they are generally only differences between men and women. However, with the passage of time, the change of environment, the difficulty of learning, the difficulty of the world and the warmth and coldness of human feelings, people's hearts and thoughts will gradually change, leading to the gap between people, so some people are very successful and some people are very unsuccessful; Some people are excellent, others are mediocre; Some people are happy, others are miserable. If you want to be a very successful, excellent and happy person in this highly competitive society, the key lies in whether you have a heart that will never be cold or die! Is there a will that neither subjective nor objective factors can overcome? (Soft music sounds) On this beautiful afternoon, let's enjoy the music to our heart's content, let's open our hearts, walk into our inner world and have a dialogue with our inner heart. Let's recall from kindergarten and find what we lost ... (The venue was silent and the participants were in awe. People live in the world, who doesn't want to do something for the society, repay their families and comfort themselves? However, the wind and frost of the years, the hardships of the world and the warmth and coldness of human feelings have made many people numb and disappointed, heartless, unwilling to make progress and afraid to struggle. Over the years, who helped you when you needed it most? In the vast sea of people, who cares about you most and loves you most? Who will always care about and miss you when you are not at home? Who is always looking forward to your coming home and waiting for you to eat? Who is most nervous and anxious when sick? Who is happier than you when you are happiest? Who is more painful than you when you are most painful? Who will comfort you and encourage you when you are most frustrated and helpless? Who will accompany you when you are most lonely? Who has the greatest influence on your life? Who occupies the most position in your mind? You may have grown up in the countryside, and your family has been farmers for generations. In order to survive, you can live and grow with dignity like other children. Your parents work hard all year round, but as long as their children are willing to make progress, they are willing to have no regrets. Whenever night falls and you go to the classroom for evening self-study, your parents may not have come home for dinner yet. If they wander around, do business and collect junk, maybe they don't know where the dinner is because they can't get paid. When you go to bed for further study, your parents often worry about bringing you tuition and living expenses for the whole family, and often can't sleep all day long ... They know that today's society depends on skills to eat. Although you have studied, there are many people competing in the society, but there are few jobs and the competition is fierce. It is not easy for children to exist and take care of themselves, so they dare not expect too much from you for the rest of their lives, and they may have to live in their later years. In fact, your parents' hard work is nothing more than hoping that their children can become useful people to society, be respected and admired, and their efforts will not be in vain! Think about yourself. Can you do it? As parents of farmers or migrant workers, when they are really old and can't do anything, their lives will have no support. To a large extent, they will rely on their children to spend the darkest years of their lives. What can you bring them? You grow up day by day, but your parents get old day by day. Have you seen their faces? Have you looked at them carefully? How old are they? Do you know that?/You know what? They may have become very old, because of metabolism, people will naturally get old, but it is not normal to get old too soon. Over the years, they have been running for their lives, working hard and worrying about their children. You may often argue back with them and make them angry and sad. Your study is not ideal, and your behavior always makes them uneasy. They are often worried about your future and way out. How young can they be? Besides, they may still have many diseases and are unwilling to go to the hospital. They are afraid of being examined and hospitalized. Are their lives in danger? How long can they live? Anyway, you should take some time and give yourself a chance to see your parents! It is time! If there were no parents, what would happen to your study and life? In what ways do parents earn money for your education? What happened to them? Are they good to you? Do you often think of them? Do you often greet them? Do you still talk and laugh with them often? Do you still often hold their hands in the street? Would you like them to come to see you at school? Can you introduce it proudly in front of your classmates? Do you know their birthdays? Do you remember their birthdays? You are still a student, a minor or a consumer, and you don't need to take any responsibility for your parents. If your parents are ill in hospital, they will be very happy if you go to see them. Some people even praise you as a very sensible child. However, when you grow up, have your own family and children, your parents are ill and hospitalized. Can you go and see them? What would you do if you needed an operation, hundreds of thousands, to cure their diseases and even ensure their lives? How much can I take? Will you lend it to others? Can you go all out for their health and life? Just like they did to you? In case one day, your parents suddenly leave you, and you cry a few tears, others may praise you as a filial child. However, in many years to come, when you look back and recall the kindness of your parents, will it be enough for you to just cry? I grew up in the countryside, and my parents are farmers. My father only attended the fourth grade of primary school, but my mother can't read. When I was a child, life was very difficult because there were too many brothers and sisters and only two parents. In the cold winter, when I come home from school, I often eat porridge, and I can see it ... What impressed me the most was that my 79-year-old grandfather was seriously ill and needed hospitalization. 1979. But the family was poor and had no money. I took it to the hospital for the second time and lived in the corridor of the hospital. At that time, it was cold winter. Before he died, he struggled to ask my mother how much money was left at home. The old man who has worked hard all his life is ready to lose his life, and he is also worried about whether there is money to take care of the affairs at home after his death, and whether he will bring trouble to his descendants after his death. This tragic scene in the world is vividly displayed in front of me. At that time, my tears flowed down unconsciously. However, my fist is clenched tightly, and I swear silently in my heart: I will struggle anyway! Be sure to rush out and die! At least let your parents not worry about money before they die. I don't want them to ask you the same question again. This is the belief. In the bitter years when I failed in the college entrance examination, when I was ridiculed and satirized by many people, I was still full of confidence and indomitable. Finally, after failing the college entrance examination five times in a row, I was admitted to the university in the sixth year, that is, 1984! Rewrite your life and change your destiny! Not long ago, when I gave a speech in a middle school in the coastal area of Guangdong, I heard the teacher there say that there was once a boy in their middle school. His father is a senior official of the government, and his mother is also in power in a certain department. This boy always thinks that he can rely on his parents to spoil him all day, study lazily, lead a dissolute life, rely on his wealth, be generous and spend money like water. His father and mother are busy with official business and social activities, so they have no time to take care of him. He's getting worse. Originally, he was a dude, and his father was the head of the city. He doesn't care about his teacher at all. He has a poor foundation, is unwilling to study and is arrogant. Naturally, his study became worse and worse. Many senior officials sent their children to study abroad, and the boy's father also sent him out. In domestic schools, I don't concentrate on my studies, and I can't learn English. How can I study in English-speaking countries in Europe and America at one time? Although I went to the language school first, it didn't help after all. Far from home and classmates, he doesn't understand and doesn't want to read. Coupled with the language barrier, it is difficult to communicate with people and even go shopping. After two years of loneliness and boredom, one day, he returned to China. But when I got home, everything changed. The door has been sealed by the public security court, and the kind neighbor told him that something had happened to your parents! I'm locked up. According to the situation, my life is in danger. He never knew what suffering was, and suddenly he sat on the ground with a blank mind and a blank brain. After waking up, he went to the detention center. Dad, who used to be red-faced and full of energy, is now very haggard. Ask his father, and he says, Dad, how did you become like this? Didn't you tell me to rest assured? His father said, "Son, my father did something wrong. He wanted to pave the way for you, but he did not expect to harm you and himself. " Dad probably won't live long, your mother will be locked up for at least ten years, all the property in the family will be confiscated, and our family will be completely destroyed. Mom and dad can't help me. Trees will fall and vines will wither. We are in such a situation that you can't count on any relatives or friends to help you. You have to rely on yourself in the future. Work hard and live as far as you can! "In order to make a living, a few days later, the boy set up a stall in a corner of the vegetable market to sell frozen fish. It used to be a few hundred dollars a day, but now a catty of frozen fish only earns a few cents. Make a net profit of twenty or thirty yuan at most a day. Of this money, he has to pay rent and eat, and there is not much left. I used to spend my parents' ill-gotten wealth, and I didn't feel bad about how much I spent. Now I have to think about every dollar I spend on myself. People who used to sell fish in the vegetable market were regarded as ants. Don't even look at them, even curse them when they are blocked. Nowadays, when you talk to them carefully and politely, you are always afraid of offending others ... So, classmates, you may often be complacent, proud of your parents being big officials and doing big business, thinking that you can have a good life in your life, and you can sit back and relax, study carelessly, live casually, behave dissolutely, muddle along all day, dig big money all day and never come back ... When you are in a good mood to squander your enjoyment, have you ever asked and weighed the source of the money? They have prepared a lot of money and a paved future for you. Is it dangerous to be safe? Will they ruin their political future and life for you? Your parents will give you everything, but have you ever put yourself in their shoes? In this world, almost nothing is eternal. You put all your future on your parents. What do you think your chances are of winning?