This is the only way out for the children at the bottom. It's so cruel that people want to cry.

As the saying goes, "the rich are not rich for three generations, and the poor are not poor for three generations", but is this really the case?

The British BBC once filmed a well-known documentary "7 Up", namely "Seven Years of Life". Starting from 1964, we filmed 14 7-year-old children in different classes. They are talking about their dreams, worries and hopes or fears for the future.

Since then, they have been followed for seven days every seven years. By the time the 49th documentary was filmed, these children were 56 years old.

Half a century's tracking records the different life trajectories of these 14 children, but it also reveals the cruel truth of life: class barriers are basically impossible to break.

Poverty still leads to poverty, and wealth still leads to wealth. The story behind it is so shocking.

Rich children in the upper class have been studying in private schools since childhood, and their good reading habits and clear plans for the future have enabled them to become social elites all the way. And their children, not surprisingly, copied their parents' elite road.

Girls born in middle-class families learn and understand their own specialties from an early age and have their own dreams for the future. Most of them live a rich life when they grow up.

However, children from poor families limit their dreams when they are young. They just want to make money as horse trainers in the future, or they want to have enough food and less beatings. When they grow up, most people are still struggling at the bottom. They still repeat the fate of their parents and try their best to live.

The documentary "Seven Years of Life" tells you in an extremely calm and even cruel way that the gap between people may be decided from the moment you are born. And all your circumstances today may have laid the groundwork.

The difference in family background will affect children's self-awareness, imagination, vision and pattern of the future, which will continue to affect their choices and even ultimately affect their lives.

Sometimes, we have to admit that the class gap is really a person's fate.

Although class solidification is a normal state, it does not mean that it cannot be broken. There are too many exceptions in our real life.

In the seven-year life, 14 children have two exceptions. One is Neil, who was born in a middle-class family and embarked on the life path of dropping out of school-becoming a construction worker-a tramp-a small congressman, without falling to the bottom.

The other is Nick, who was born in the countryside. He changed from a poor child to high flyers of Oxford University, finally broke the class barrier, immigrated to the United States to do nuclear power research, and finally became a university professor.

Therefore, even in the solidified class, there is cruel competition.

If you don't work hard to acquire knowledge and master skills, you will be eliminated, but if you work hard to grow, enrich yourself and enhance your value, you can also upgrade your class.

I was deeply impressed by a program in Extreme Challenge.

On the 0/00th day of the junior sprint in Chongming Middle School, the Extreme Men's Gang held a swearing-in meeting for the students through a special running competition.

The program group selected a group of excellent senior three students and put them on the same line.

Then let each member of the men's gang ask them a question. If it suits their actual situation, they will go to the next line. If not, they will stay where they are.

These six questions are:

1. Have your parents received college education or above?

2. Have your parents ever hired a one-on-one tutor for you?

3. Your parents asked you to continue studying a major other than your homework. Do you still maintain a certain level at present?

Have you ever traveled abroad?

Have your parents promised to send you to study abroad?

6. Are parents always proud of you and show off you in front of relatives and friends?

A * * * seven lines, asked six questions, many students to four or five lines, only a few students stay where they are. "Some people go all the way to the end, while others have to stop at the starting point."

At this moment, Bo Huang said to the students ahead: The reason why you stand on this line has nothing to do with your own efforts. Your starting point now is only the advantage that your parents have worked hard to create.

Then, Wang Xun announced another rule: Everyone starts from the position under their feet and rushes to the finish line. The top 20 students can get rewards, and the rest are rejected.

At this time, the scene is not only a symbol of the competition and the college entrance examination, but also a portrayal of our whole life journey.

We have different starting points, but the end point is the same. Anyone can be a champion before reaching the finish line.

Thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge, and only those who run hard can become the final winners. And those "children without umbrellas" are desperately trying to get rid of the fate of being wet by rain.

There is a slogan in the extreme challenge: this is life!

At first glance, it is very sad. Some people regard it as a placebo and an excuse for not working hard, not paying, and not making progress. But there are always some people who stubbornly take this sentence as an incentive. You say it's fate, but I don't accept it. I just want to prove it to you. And such people are often the easiest to break through the class.

But how to break through the class? For the bottom people, the only way out is to read more books. Because knowledge can really change fate!

I know a friend whose parents divorced when he was a child and his family was poor. I didn't do well in the college entrance examination and went to an ordinary college. Faced with the depressing atmosphere created by the school he didn't like very much and the students around him, he was also confused, but he was unwilling and resigned.

When the classmates around him were busy playing games and dating their girlfriends, he didn't choose to go with the flow, but made a detailed timetable for himself, which was full of time for getting up, studying by himself and going to work. While doing sales, handing out leaflets and working as a waiter, I spend my spare time learning knowledge and skills.

Later, when the students around him were still worried about finding a job and were confused about the future, he had been promoted to the undergraduate course and later admitted to the graduate school of Peking University. While many former classmates are still trying their best to survive, he has successfully entered a well-known enterprise and gradually became an executive of the enterprise.

From the moment you decide to work hard, you are different from others!

When mediocre people are still sighing and looking back, when you go all out for your goal, you have already distanced yourself from them.

I saw a news the other day about a security guard who turned into a university lecturer.

Li Mingyong lived in a remote village since childhood, and his family was very poor. 16 years old, Li Mingyong dropped out of school and went out to work. At the age of 22, he came to Guizhou Normal University as a security guard. When he saw those young and confident faces on campus, he felt particularly envious.

We are the same age, why can they study in it and I have to watch the gate?

With unwillingness and expectation for the future. Li Mingyong embarked on the road of examination with the goal of becoming a university teacher. First, I took the adult college entrance examination and passed the junior college class of Chinese Department of Guizhou Institute of Education. Two years later, he passed the undergraduate course. After graduating from undergraduate course in 2005, he resolutely insisted on taking the postgraduate entrance examination.

Postgraduate entrance examination is not that easy. Li Mingyong failed the exam twice in a row, which was a desperate and heavy blow to a person. Many people chose to give up here, but Li Mingyong didn't. He said: I am not afraid of losing. Getting closer to the goal is success.

During this period, he made unremitting efforts, often reviewing until late at night, sleeping only five or six hours a day, using one refill after another, and I don't know how many thick notebooks he wrote.

After three years of postgraduate entrance examination, in 2007, Li Mingyong finally got a master's degree in aesthetics from Guizhou University with the first written test. Then he decided to go to Cowper again. After two failures, on 20 15, Li Mingyong was admitted to Central China Normal University as a doctor. Now, he finally stood on the platform of the university.

The sentence that knowledge changes fate has been perfectly verified by Li Mingyong. He also proved with practical actions that anyone is great as long as he has a dream!

Although a diploma may not change your destiny, the knowledge you gained on the way to get a diploma, indomitable personality, the change of surrounding environment and the infection of atmosphere will sublimate you as a whole.

What is the saddest thing for ordinary people who only live with the rich? Even in a mediocre life, I am still comforting myself that I am ordinary and valuable.

To cross the class, we need to understand: "We know that our talents are not outstanding, but we still fight with the most unyielding attitude." ?

Maybe our starting point is not ideal, but our efforts will not be disappointed!