Many of us may be ignorant and feel the importance of circles! But it's mostly at the sensory level.
At noon today, I was triggered by what was happening around me, and I deeply felt the great impact of the circle on a person!
In the afternoon, my uncle shared the news of my little cousin's study in South Korea in the WeChat family, and the family sent blessings one after another!
In my circle of acquaintances, in addition to my cousin, who has realized his dream of studying abroad, there are also four people I know who have also started their study abroad journey.
One is my little cousin in my mother-in-law's family, and the other is my daughter's math teacher in grades 1-3.
They studied in Japan and Canada respectively, and they all applied for public scholarship!
It is not surprising that the little cousin studied abroad, after all, her parents are both college professors!
My daughter's teacher studying abroad is very admirable and surprising to me!
Because she gives me the impression that she is frugal and simple.
Judging from her behavior of going abroad for further study this time, she should have saved for her dream for a long time, and her teammates should not be simple.
Although she is unpretentious, she does have a lot of energy. She really speaks with her life in her lectures, and every sentence is loud and clear.
Now seeing her suddenly give up a good job with a high salary and take her 7-year-old child and husband to study abroad, it further proves that she is a person who is responsible for her own life.
Recently, two PhDs in our team have also applied for places abroad through the school.
One goes to Germany, the other to Italy.
They are usually extremely focused.
One of them was very young and very focused on developing himself.
There is also a colleague in the team who has recently been sent abroad by the school to participate in international conferences abroad.
In our hometown, it is actually very common to go abroad, because our hometown is a well-known labor export county in the country. Now the state has even approved the establishment of a foreign-related labor service university in our hometown, which specializes in training college students to learn relevant skills abroad.
Among my relatives, everyone has gone abroad, most of them are from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Africa, and there are still few in the United States.
But I recently chatted with a client who always told me how to become a Hong Kong drifter and shared his relative's experience.
My client, together with a large family of relatives, was able to become a Hong Kong drifter not by going abroad to work, but by following a relative who is a medical doctor.
Now Hong Kong can no longer meet the development of her relatives, who have gone to the United States. Their descendants have become indigenous residents of Hong Kong and are currently studying in Hong Kong.
It's great to work abroad, but it's amazing to see more people going abroad to further their studies, learn knowledge, and make a further leap in class.
In the past, we envied the material superiority and wealth of others, but now everyone's material level is not bad, and we have begun to seek a leap in cognition and living environment.
Seeing that the people around me are so good, I am also full of energy!
I am also deeply aware that the impact of the environment is very important to me along the way!
I lived in the countryside when I was a child, but because my grandmother was in the city, and my grandfather and grandmother and my aunt and relatives were all civil servants, and my grandfather was also a civil servant. Therefore, even if I have lived in the countryside for a few years, I have been imperceptibly influenced by another circle.
Especially when I was in adolescence, my uncle, who was nine years older than me, was admitted to a major university with excellent grades, which made us immediately start to look up to him as a role model!
We observe how he behaves and listen to what he sees and hears.
When I was a child, I was deeply influenced by the environment of my elders' homes.
The living room of my grandmother's house often hangs Chinese paintings such as begonias, and my grandmother's house likes to configure calligraphy and paintings such as plum orchids and bamboo chrysanthemums. Growing up in an environment full of bookish atmosphere, no matter what circumstances I grew up, I still have a trace of the atmosphere of a scholarly family in my bones.
If the living environment has a great impact on people, then the circle of friends, the working environment, and the people and things we come into contact with every day also have a great impact on us.
There was a time when a relative of mine suddenly began to believe in the "uselessness of reading".
We were too much to talk about, and we were a little shaken. I used to think that money is paramount, and if you can't monetize your studies, it's not really useful.
But now, when I walk into the intellectuals' side up close, I gradually understand that it is not useless to read, but to see what kind of book you are reading and your motivation for reading.
If we only study for academic qualifications, it will not be enough to adapt to society.
If we just study to get a high-paying job, we will inevitably rush for quick success!
When we go to study because of our interests and aspirations, we are bound to have a long-term thinking!!
Although a good environment is not omnipotent, it will really change a person's cognition and habits subtly!
Just like today, when I found out that my cousins and cousins were studying abroad one by one, although I was happy for them and a little envious, I was not anxious.
Because we know, we know cause and effect.
They have today's opportunities, relying on the hard work of generations and the growth and changes brought about by a small environment.
The old is the spiritual inheritance of down-to-earth and self-improvement from generation to generation!