The nail we understand generally refers to the function of stabilizing the structure, which can combine and fix things that can't be combined together to form a new thing, such as several pieces of wood with good material, which can be modified into different shapes and fixed with nails to make stools and tables, which brings us meaning.

Nails are important, but they are not the only ones. You said it was important, but so was Wood. You said that if you can't make a table and stool with wood and nails, someone has to shape the wood and then "match" the nails to make a table and stool. But when it comes to cooperation, who is cooperating with whom? ? In fact, this is complementary. No one cooperates with each other. Only by providing our own values can we form new things, meaningful things and useful things.

I think people are the same. Everyone has different fate, different classes, different jobs, different personalities and different values, but it is precisely because of these different things (nails) that a society has been formed. The better nails are nailed, the higher the social stability. You see, in today's society, everyone has a definite job, and the society is prosperous, stable and happy. In the past, the need for survival was the primary goal of mankind. It is because the whole human society is progressing and stable, especially the survival needs and security needs are basically met, and the latter three needs are the most common in society.

Look at the need to belong. Belonging enables us to have love. In love, we find the need of belonging and emotion. Respecting needs allows us to work hard and grow into what we want, which may be a rich job or an ideal job. The need for self-realization is that only when the first four needs are met can we pursue self-realization. We can see that those who have certain economic strength, family and social status have started charity or explored new fields. These are all self-realization.

So since each of us is a nail, if you want to be better, you must strive to be a good nail, a nail that can bring more functions to society or yourself. What? If you want to say that those successful people are not nails, others have money and resources, and what they do is not single, if you want to say that they are nails, is there something wrong with your cognition? If anyone still doubts me so much, I feel normal, because I think so, too. I even think that, like most people, nailing refers to people who provide fixed value in fixed places and positions.

Later, I figured it out. I think everyone is a nail, because nails have different shapes. Those who do more, provide more value and contribute more. Those high-class people are also nails. You see, although they are also a nail, they can be a nail with different functions and different structures, and even various small nails can be combined into another object through other tools. The function is the same, and the value brought by it is not comparable.

When I came home for the New Year, I went to my hometown to see my alma mater, who was in middle school. Why only junior high school, no high school, no university? Because this is the closest memory of my school days. I feel very sad. I saw the tall teaching building of my alma mater and the five-star red flag flying on the straight pole. It turns out that the school is the same as before, or those clouds dotted with blue sky. It won't be the same just because the playground has become a plastic runway and a bigger science and technology building has been built. The school is still the same as before, becoming just people and scenery. Everything is the same, but everything becomes so different.

It seems that not long ago, I was a junior high school student, and my personality was as weak, lazy, timid and mediocre as when I was in junior high school. I thought I was gold, but I turned out to be a piece of iron. I always feel that although I am poor at present, I have a bright future. Until now, I feel so ordinary and mediocre, just like most people in society, so ordinary that I can't do anything well. So now if someone says to my face that although I am doing well at present, I think I will succeed in the future, and everything will happen according to my own imagination, I will definitely not expose him, because if you expose him, the worst thing is that your relationship is not good, and he will hit you, just like if someone says so about me, my reaction will be the same, because I am trying not to make excuses for my current bad situation, so I will fantasize that the future will definitely get better. However, there are many futures, but the future is not infinite, and there are not many tomorrow, mainly because we will all be old and die. If we want to work hard, now is the earliest moment, and the later we work hard, the worse it will be for us.

You see, we often complain that this society is too cruel and the competition is too fierce. Let's start with a fact. Most people in this society have never actively changed, fought for or made a difficult decision. They just passively accept the mercy of life, but they still feel tired in the face of life. It may be a bit unreasonable to say so, but that's the truth. Of course, the efforts mentioned here definitely refer to "actively striving for", facing up to fears and challenging yourself. Being passively ravaged by life everywhere is called hard work.

In this context, you can surpass 70% of people in an instant with a little effort, which is a bit successful, isn't it?

I don't know if you have seen a legal program. A young man was arrested again for many thefts and went to prison many times. So the policeman asked him, why don't you live a good life and work hard to make a living by stealing? The young man thought calmly and said to the police in a contrite tone: I am the one who turned over the wrong person and brought bad influence to society. I want to be a good person in the future, because I am paralyzed and go astray. If I had worked hard, I would be the factory director now.

I really want to ask him? What makes you think you can be a factory director? Is it possible that the current factory director is as stupid as you, making you think that someone who likes to sneak around and feels relaxed as a factory director becomes a factory director? The boss can't see who you are.

In fact, most of us, like him, can't know ourselves clearly and can't accept our mediocrity and ordinary. Like most people in society, some young people are even worse than their parents. If their honest parents return to the present society and enjoy the same education and social resources. Your parents may have distanced themselves from you in primary school, because your parents are definitely better than you, because they are hardworking and can bear hardships. Even if they don't know much, they will live well through accumulation.

So if you are not satisfied with the status quo and feel mediocre, act now, work hard and rely on your own accumulation, and the gap with you will gradually widen. It may be a little slower ahead, but if you keep accumulating slowly, the gap will get bigger and bigger. Maybe five years later, when you look back at yourself, you will find that your original self is not only bad, but even ridiculous.

At this point, this article is for myself. I hope that one day after several years, when I look back at the self I wrote today, I can make fun of it and even feel ashamed. You are more grateful to yourself for not giving up for so many years.

* * * Encourage!