On September 16th, Jay Chou's new song "Say Yes Don't Cry" was released, and sales exceeded 20 million yuan in one day, with the QQ music server crashing at one point, and the circle of friends being brushed up.
At 40 years old, Jay Chou is firmly established as the king of the Chinese music industry, with a beautiful family and such a strong ability to absorb money, he is a proper winner in life.
However, if you look at his history, he was only a single-parent family, and he didn't even make it to college.
After graduating from high school, he worked in a restaurant with a monthly salary of only 900 yuan. Once he served food, accidentally spilled to another waiter, the boss had to deduct 450 yuan, Jay had to swallow his tears and continue to work.
Such a starting point, lower than many people. However, in the end, he has achieved what few others have.
Why him? In addition to the unrepeatable personal factors of talent and opportunity, it is also because he was not beaten down by the hardships of life and sank with the waves, but won the favor of fate with his love and dedication to music.
If we take life's trials and tribulations as an exam, how to pass the exam depends largely on one's attitude and choices.
Few people can perfectly unite their lives with their dreams.
Most people face the situation: want to do what they are most interested in, the quality of life can not be guaranteed; want to get a good income, we have to engage in not so favorite work.
For Jay, who just graduated from high school, the situation is even more serious. If you do not hurry to employment, survival may be a problem, not to mention the future development.
So he took jobs that had nothing to do with music at all; but those who truly love what they do at heart don't use the fact that life is not easy as an excuse to give up their efforts.
Jay Chou spends almost all of his salary on buying tapes, and usually listens to music when he has nothing to do.
As I mentioned earlier, when he was serving food, he spilled it on a colleague, because he was listening to music while serving food and didn't pay attention to it for a while. He was upset when his boss docked half of his paycheck because he didn't have the money to buy tapes that month. In addition, he has been writing songs.
Many people know that Jay Chou was discovered by Wu Zongxian. But if it wasn't for Jay's perseverance in the face of adversity, how could he have come up with the excellent work to impress the other side when he met Wu Zongxian?
It's too easy to find a reason to stop for something. It's raining today, so let's not work out.
Today's overtime is too tired, let's not read. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that. Such reasons make the heart become frank, but also destroy the dream without realizing it.
A dream that is too easy to give up may not be a dream at all. The thing that will make excuses not to do, maybe originally not so want to do.
Only the real dream for the horse people, will not be afraid of the challenges of life, the mountains around the road, the river bridge, towards the goal of the heart keep moving forward.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of the International Red Cross, said, "I never make excuses, nor do I accept any." And she spent her life practicing this saying.
In 1853, the Crimean War broke out, and reports from the front said that the medical conditions of the British army were very poor, and the mortality rate of the wounded was as high as 42%. Nightingale, a nurse, immediately led 38 nurses to the front.
In the social environment at that time, the status of nurses was very low, was looked down upon, a 35-year-old female nurse to go to war, the material conditions, public opinion conditions are very difficult. When they first arrived at the field hospital, the arrogant physicians would not let them into the wards at all.
But Florence Nightingale did not complain, she started by improving the diet and washing clothes, washing 10,000 shirts in three months. She also gave her own savings to help buy medicines, equipment, and wards for the hospital, which doubled its capacity to accommodate the wounded.
She used her own organization and scheduling ability and nursing ability, won the recognition of the military doctors and the wounded soldiers love.
Through Nightingale's efforts, after six months, the mortality rate of the wounded in the British army dropped from 42% to 2%, shaking the British nation.
Everyone has since changed their minds about nurses, and the nursing profession has gained the attention of society as a whole, and continues to do so today. It can be said that without Nightingale, there would be no nursing system today.
Florence Nightingale did not make excuses, so that she could create conditions in the absence of conditions, and ultimately realize the miracle.
No excuses is an attitude. Attitude determines choice, choice determines action, and action creates results.
Frustration is a cup of colorless water, it is sweet or bitter, depending on what you add to it. The "spice" is your mindset.
Look at it with a pessimistic mindset, it will bring you pain; but look at it with an optimistic mindset, it will be a unique experience and experience.
In Jay's life, there is a most important song, which changed his fate.
At the age of 18, Jay signed up for the entertainment program "Super Fierce Newcomer King" and debuted with his own song.
Out of shyness, he got a friend to sing and accompanied himself. But his friend sang so badly that the audience booed.
At this point, the host, Wu Zongxian, who happened to be standing next to the judges, picked up the sheet music and looked at it in passing, and was amazed - this young guy could write such a complicated score, and had a great future!
As soon as the program was recorded, he immediately went backstage to find Jay Chou and signed with him. That's how the backstory came about.
The name of that song was "Recipe Song", and the song was not released on a public platform, so I don't know the details. But judging from the name, the inspiration must have come from that experience of working in a restaurant.
Master Wu Guanzhong once said, "True artists grow through suffering." For artists, suffering is instead the fuel that fuels the engine of their lives, helping them to go further on the path of art.
This summer, there is a music variety show "Summer of the Band" is very hot. The biggest dark horse in the program is a band called Nine Company of Real People.
Before the program, the nine companies almost no one knows, microblogging fans only nine. In the program, they with the "Bully for the Poor" a hit, and then all the way to the promotion, microblogging fans also rose to 200,000.
The nine-lane real people come from Lianping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, a provincial-level poverty-stricken county where the Anti-Japanese War didn't even hit.
The three members of the band have seen a lot of stories caused by social issues such as patriarchy and left-behind children during their formative years. One of the members, Ah Mak, is a left-behind child; these experiences and insights were compiled into songs, making JiuLian's real-life songs always have a special power to move people's hearts.
In one of the promotional rounds, Jiu Lianzhen chose a song called "North Wind", which describes how vendors insist on waking up early to set up their stalls in the cold wind in order to make a living.
A few days before the program was recorded, torrential rains fell in Lianping County, triggering a 20-year flood, and the school where Ah Mak worked was the hardest hit. The band was already in Beijing preparing to record, and when they learned the news, they broke down and cried, but they couldn't go back, so they could only hold on for dear life.
The band played a tearful set, integrating their worries about their hometown into their performance, which fit the theme of the song and conveyed the uncertainty of the vendors in the song. The performance was of a high caliber, and was ultimately passed by a high number of votes.
Later, they also wrote about the flooding in their song "One Wave" for the next stage, expressing their determination not to give in easily. The song also garnered a lot of love.
Frustration and tribulation is a necessary lesson in everyone's life. You can choose to let it beat you down, or, let it fulfill you.
If life achievement is a three-digit number, then the digit is persistence, the digit is ability, and the most important hundred is opportunity.
Almost all successful people, are seized two or three important opportunities in life, all of a sudden jumped to a new height, and most of the rest of the time, it is trying to stay on this height, waiting for the next opportunity.
However, fate is not fair, the more difficult life, fate gives him fewer opportunities. But on the other hand, precisely because life is not easy, they will cherish every opportunity, and instead make the most of it.
Jay Chou went to Wu Zongxian's studio to write songs, and soon created a large number of songs.
Once, Jay sent another new song to Wu Zongxian look, Wu Zongxian see Jay smug look, want to test him, then the lyrics to rub together, thrown into the trash can next to.
Jay Chou turned away without saying a word and silently shed tears. He can be high-minded and proud, and laugh at the sky and go out, my generation is not the people of artemisia. But he knew that once he chose to leave, he would be beaten back. No, must be recognized!
Jay was even more diligent, writing for seven days at the rate of creating a song a day.
His persistence finally impressed Wu Zong Xian, who promised to find a singer to perform his work. But after finding several in succession, they were all rejected. Wu Zong Xian finally decided to let Jay himself to sing the songs he wrote.
So there was that one-hit wonder album, JAY, and the door to a new world finally opened in front of Jay.
Life is not easy anymore, and there are always people who believe that my life is not up to heaven.
Love in your heart, no excuses, cherish the opportunity, as long as you have not been defeated, all the setbacks and tribulations will not be in vain.
The world kisses me with pain, and I return the favor with a song that will eventually blossom.