Dreams Are Not Far Away

I really didn't expect to see this type of book in Jinjiang

There is a star above the clouds Major General Rao Hongqiao I have known Liang Guoguo 30 years ago. When I first met him, he gave me a few small press releases to recommend to newspapers, which gave me the impression that he was very adventurous and very pursuing. Because I had also started this way back then, I regarded this soldier as a fellow soldier and was willing to help him. But I thought, how far can a big-headed soldier go? Publish a few small articles, achieve merit and join the party, and that's about it. After that, I didn't see him doing any reports. Now I heard that he had been promoted to a new job, now I heard that he had made a TV series and was praised by the leaders, now I heard that he had entered military arts, now I heard that he had been transferred to the headquarters agency, now I heard that he had been awarded the rank of senior colonel. He just kept making people admire him. Years later, when I saw him again, I felt that he had indeed become a great person, with the temperament of an artist and a socialite. How did he get through these 30 years? After reading his book, which is similar to an autobiography, I realized how difficult it was for him and how amazing he was. His fighting spirit is the most remarkable. This book can be regarded as an inspirational masterpiece. As a soldier who joined the army from a rural area, I am very familiar with all the experiences in the book, as well as the joys, sorrows and joys expressed in the book. It is just like having experienced it personally, which resonates with me from the bottom of my heart. Soldiers like me and our country have no other hope but struggle. All his family can give him is words of encouragement such as "Go to the army and work hard." This sentence contains their many, many expectations. You must strive to move forward under the gaze of their expectations. Thanks also to the army and this big school. To this day, serving in the military and entering college are still the preferred paths for rural young people to change themselves and their families' living conditions. Perhaps because there are so many such people in the army, the environment in which they struggle is particularly harsh and relatively fair: whoever can endure hardship the most, be the most practical, the most able to be wronged, and the most persistent will be looked upon highly. The essayist Mr. Liang Heng told the story of how a stone turned into an eagle in one of his philosophical essays: The sculptor carved an ordinary stone into a lifelike eagle that was about to fly, and the viewers were all amazed. The sculptor said: There was an eagle in the stone. I just removed the excess part and it flew out. Liang Heng explained: Atomic bombs explode because there is atomic energy in the nucleus; plants sprout because there is life in the seeds. It doesn't explode or sprout because it has an extra shell. If we remove this shell, it can realize its own value. Now it seems that Liang Guoguo is the person who removes the excess parts of the stone, the person who removes the excess shell of himself, the person who lets himself fly out of the stone and realize the value of his life. From this, I thought of a very popular Internet saying recently: "Everything is just a cloud." This Internet saying seems to have aroused strong resonance among people. It seems to make people look away from everything, take it lightly, and explain it, and understand it very thoroughly. After reading Liang Guoguo's autobiography, and thinking of this Internet slang, I suddenly felt that I didn't agree with it. Just imagine, without more than 30 years of struggle, would Liang Guoguo be what Liang Guoguo is today? Definitely not! And it is probably a real floating cloud! Today's Liang Guoguo should be a star above the floating clouds, a star that steps on the floating clouds under its feet and persists in its own orbit! No matter what force there is, no matter how powerful it is to throw the star out of its orbit, it is impossible. The setbacks, losses, failures and rises he has experienced all illustrate this point. And those who regard everything as floating clouds are those who live under the floating clouds. The elders say that every star in the vast universe has something to do with every person in the world. People only see stars and cannot see stars that are not in their field of vision. In fact, before a certain star was discovered by people, it existed, was moving and shining. Whether you notice it or not, He is there. Although it is not very dazzling, it disappears and appears from time to time. Liang Guoguo is such a star. (Note: The author is a well-known journalist inside and outside the military and deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army Daily) February 26, 2022