Playing table tennis, swimming, cooking, practicing calligraphy, taking photos, reading financial books, crossing the street, being a technician, running, fitness, investing money, selling, traveling, learning foreign languages, politics, history, geography and so on. Over the years, most of the things I have done have not become my specialty, but at most I have gained a little knowledge.
A few years ago, I saw the beautiful photos taken by others with SLR cameras, and I came up with the idea of photography. I wanted to buy a SLR camera for a while, but I didn't buy it after all. I just had a good time with my mobile phone. Photography has not made me a good photographer so far, but I haven't invested too much time and money in it.
My friends who grew up with me all like swimming in the water in summer. When I was a child, I envied my friends who could swim. Every time I go swimming with them, I lie in shallow water and watch them swim happily. Occasionally, I will imitate their swimming in shallow water. With the increase of my time in shallow water, the number of times I imitated swimming increased, and one day I found that I could swim several times. The more times you swim, the farther you swim. Later, I went to the swimming pool to swim, and found that compared with professional swimmers, swimmers' swimming posture is more beautiful and faster.
I suddenly fell in love with calligraphy when I was a child. I began to practice calligraphy because of my interest. After a few months, the enthusiasm for practicing calligraphy gradually faded, but fortunately it did not completely retire. For the next ten years, every time I write, I will carefully write as beautifully as possible. I didn't do it to get someone's praise, but an attitude towards words. Many students have always said that my handwriting is beautiful, and some teachers think so. After graduation, the handwriting is not too ugly.
About cooking, I didn't have such a habit at first. A few years ago, in order to make myself eat healthier and more to my taste, I began to cook simple meals. Because I have to eat every day, I always cook at home whenever I have time. Eating is just needed, and eating healthy and in line with taste is also my strong demand. Therefore, cooking and stir-frying has become something I have to do every day. After several years, I found that I can cook a good dish (I think so). Is this an interesting skill?
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Looking back on the past from now on, all the short-lived things have become the past, and I don't remember what I did temporarily. But I think it is a skill or something different from my friends around me. I do it with my heart and often do it for a long time, such as calligraphy and cooking.
Generally speaking, no matter what you do, as long as you do it seriously and stick to it every day, you will naturally master the relevant skills after a long time. If you just do something once in a while on a whim and then stop doing it, you will get nothing.
For our important things, we should do them every day, repeatedly, and persist for a long time, and time will give us the answer.