Life that falls to the bottom but bounces back to the bottom is even more shining.

"A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." After hearing this familiar sentence, perhaps everyone knows that it comes from Hemingway's masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea. This work won Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year, which can be said to be the pinnacle of his life.

However, Hemingway also had a low point in his life before writing this work.

Hemingway was an intern reporter at first, and then went to the European battlefield with the army, but he was injured and returned to China to continue his journalist career. After returning to China, he came into contact with a writer, Anderson, and began his literary creation. He created such famous works as The Sun Also Rises, The Snow of Kilimanjaro and For Whom the Bell Tolls, which won a high reputation in the literary world. However, in the next ten years, Hemingway devoted all his energy to public affairs and did not write any more works.

Until 1949, Faulkner, Hemingway's biggest competitor, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which probably gave Hemingway a great stimulus. The following year, he wrote a novel "Crossing the River into the Forest". Unfortunately, however, this work has been unanimously criticized by critics, and words such as poverty, emptiness and self-pity have been repeatedly used to describe his work. During this period, Hemingway's physical condition also continued to decline. Under pressure, his blood pressure rose and his weight soared. Everything seems to show that Hemingway can't reproduce his former glory.

In this case, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea. This work sold 5.3 million copies within 48 hours after its publication, and won the Pulitzer Prize in the second year and the Nobel Prize in Literature in the third year. This not only helped him recover his damaged reputation, but also pushed his literary career to a new peak.

This reminds me of an article I read a few days ago. It was about an American scientist, John Good Nuo, who was unemployed at the age of 54 and invented the lithium battery at the age of 58, which changed the world. At the age of 97, he still worked five days a week, and new research results kept coming out, and finally won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Both of them, a writer and a scientist, have experienced the lowest point in their lives, but they both set out again in their fifties to write the miracle of life.

Their stories also inspired me to continue writing on this matter, and I believe that one day I will usher in the bright spot of my life.