Young writer Sun Mingli participated in a reading interview and was asked about the story behind the famous line in her new book, "I once lent you a beam of light to get to the bright lights now." This revealed her bleak and warm junior high school years.
Sun Mingli, who is in her first year of junior high school, is introverted and has low self-esteem and average grades. She is forced to be the squad leader but is left out. She secretly has a crush on Min Runze, a dazzling classmate, but he ignores and alienates her. When she fell to the ground while clearing heavy snow, Min Runze stretched out his hand to pull her up. This was the first light that illuminated her youth of low self-esteem.
In the third grade of junior high school, Sun Mingli was very poor in mathematics, so her father asked the retired and strict teacher Li to make up lessons. Teacher Li is strict in words but gentle in heart, forcing her to work hard to improve, helping her grades to rise steadily, and becoming the second ray of light on her growth path.
Min Runze gradually noticed Sun Mingli, who was working silently, and began to pay attention to her quietly, borrowing pens, staring at each other on the playground, and looking at each other after graduation. The two had a silent youthful intersection, but they completely lost contact after the high school entrance examination.
For many years after that, Sun Mingli kept writing with this warmth and tenacity, and eventually became a slightly famous writer. The program team accidentally found Min Runze, and the two reunited at the interview site after more than ten years. Min Runze explained that it was not contempt but shyness and poor expression, and Sun Mingli finally let go.
She finally understood: others' illumination is light, and her own refusal to give up is even more light. Ordinary people can reach the bright lights if they move forward seriously.
Purpose: Ordinary people can overcome their inferiority complex and achieve growth through the kindness of others and self-persistence; the real light comes not only from the warmth given by others, but also from one's own efforts to never give up.