I am average, I am happy

Author: Zhou Hong
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Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Features: When readers reach these words, my daughter is almost ready to graduate from junior high school. In the years she grew from elementary to middle school, there will be many more stories, including her celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation at Tiananmen Square, her story of being slapped by a teacher and never getting justice for it, her story of offering flowers to a corrupt official who pretended to be a public servant and taking a group photo with them, her story of fighting with a ruffian, her story about Lei Feng's diary, and so on. I will narrate them in the next book. My daughter's classmates all aim for Peking University and Tsinghua University, plus Harvard, which puts three mountains of pressure on my daughter. When "Harvard girls" became a common term, I warned my daughter not to dream of Harvard. She said, "Okay, let Harvard dream of me." My educational philosophy: Better a happy fool than a melancholic genius. Parents who hope their children excel are always willing to build their own happiness on their children's suffering. Fortunately, my daughter is neither outstanding nor a genius. If she had been a genius like Han Han since childhood and had been roasted by publishing house editors and reporters, then held in their hands and blown on, and finally chewed in their mouths, happiness would likely be even further away from her than three doors. The pursuit of excellence is the source of suffering, while mediocrity is the root of happiness.