Yang Fan, a classmate in my calligraphy class, is a thirteen-year-old brother.
He is half a head taller than me, has a pair of small round eyes, and wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, giving him a very literary look. Although his eyes are small, they are very charming. Whenever he wrote a calligraphy work, he would stare at it intently, and the words he wrote were perfect.
Brother Yang Fan has been practicing calligraphy for more than five years, so his handwriting is the best in our calligraphy class. I envy him very much.
Every weekend we meet in calligraphy class. He is not good at words and never takes the initiative to say hello to others. Every time, I have to stand behind my brother and call him short before he can talk to me. Despite this, everyone likes him very much because his calligraphy is the best in our calligraphy class.
The calligraphy teacher told us that Yang Fan had participated in many large-scale calligraphy competitions and won many awards. He was his favorite student. Let us learn from him.
I was already envious of Brother Yang Fan’s beautiful calligraphy, and with the teacher’s compliment, I became even more envious and jealous. I also want to write a beautiful calligraphy poem, and I also want the teacher to treat me as his favorite student. I decided to regard him as my calligraphy learning goal and determined to surpass him!
I found that in every calligraphy class, he would practice with four pages of practice sheets. Although the teacher did not ask me, I practiced four pages at a time.
Every week when I am at home, I practice a few pages of works and show them to the teacher during class. I found that brother Yang Fan didn't hand in his homework every time. I thought he must not have practiced at home, so I became more confident and decided to do it. However, after a semester, I still haven't surpassed Yang Fan. elder brother. In our calligraphy class, his handwriting is still top-notch.
I am very confused. They say that success comes from hard work. Is this wrong? I asked my mother, and she said that no one can succeed casually. Yang Fan must have been practicing secretly at home. It's just that you don't know.
I didn’t believe it, so I asked our calligraphy teacher. Teacher Feng told me: Yang Fan practices calligraphy at home every day, twenty minutes before lunch every day, for several years without stopping. Now I have developed a habit. If I don’t write calligraphy, I can’t eat. He didn't want others to know, but the teacher still listened to what his father told him quietly.
Oh, that’s it, no wonder I can’t surpass him, because I’m not as diligent as him.
Brother Yang Fan’s success reminds me of Grandma Bing Xin’s words: “People only envy the flower of success for its real beauty, but its buds were filled with tears of struggle and sprinkled with tears. "The blood of sacrifice is everywhere."
Grandma Bing Xin is right, and so is my mother. No one can succeed casually. Even successful flowers use hard work and sweat. It comes from watering.