A long time ago, the swan and the duck were brothers. The swan has a simple nature and always looks dumb and honest. Therefore, he is always laughed at by other animals around him; and the duck is born with a keen and quick learning everything, so he is the envy of the surrounding animals. . After growing up, in order to learn flying skills, the two of them went to worship Shanying as their teacher.
In Teacher Shanying's teaching plan, the first stage of the learning task is to teach them two to jump from a small tree to train them to control their wings. In the first few days, both the swan and the duck got erect and greedily. Under the guidance of the mountain eagle, they jumped from the tree again and again.
But a few days later, the duck began to lose interest: "Oh, I really don’t know what the teacher thinks, why do we let the two of us hop around on that little tree like fools every day, doing it for so many days? These meaningless things, when will he teach us the real skills of flying!"
"Don't worry, if you want to fly, you must first learn to control your own wings. Isn't the Shanying teacher's training method just to allow us to control our wings well?" Swan patiently persuaded. "Control the wings? Huh, use it to teach me how smart I am, I will be born!" said the duck, flapping his short wings like a show off. "We have been practicing for so many days, and Mr. Shanying will definitely teach us the skills of flying soon, so be patient for a few more days!" Swan persuaded bitterly.
The duck was helpless, so he nodded in agreement, but in the following days, he was obviously not so serious about this exercise. When the teacher was not there, he ran to the river to fish for fish; if there was a teacher, he too Only slightly flap his wings perfunctorily.
Time passed quickly, but the mountain eagle still let the two of them jump around on the tree, and there was no sign of teaching them flying skills. The only difference was that the tree they jumped off was higher than before.
The swan had no complaints, and still got up early and greedily flapped its wings and jumped off the tree, while the duck was even more irritable: "What the hell does the mountain eagle want to do? So many days have passed, he only knows to let us down from the tree. Jump, don’t teach us real flying skills at all! You see how he taught his own children, he always held them to the edge of the cliff first, and then pushed them down when the little ones were not paying attention, they I fluttered in panic in the air a few times, and then he flew! You see, learning to fly is inherently easy. We can also flap our wings in an instant like a small eagle, but he just doesn’t do that much, forget it. I still don’t waste time here, I'm going to visit another master teacher!"
After the duck vented his grievance to the swan, he made the final decision. "Don't compare with the small eagle. Flying is the instinct of the small eagle, so the small eagle can fly, but we can't fly before. We need to learn slowly..." "Don't say it anymore, I have decided to go. I'm looking for a teacher who is more suitable for me. Just stay here. You are stupid and very suitable for this kind of learning process!" The duck interrupted Swan roughly, and then went to worship the Golden Eagle as a teacher.
The ducks studied at the Golden Eagle for a few days, and then began to complain: "Oh, what a place is this, surrounded by high mountains and a col, with a small and claustrophobic environment, what can you do here! Forget it, there is no place here at all. Suitable for me!" After speaking, the duck left the golden eagle's lair and went to a more distant place to apprentice.
Later, ducks learned the art of flying from many flying animals: he went to the sea to ask seagulls for advice, he went to the desert to learn from vultures, and he even religiously learned from sparrows...but Each time he studied for no more than three days, he either complained about the difficult environment, or said that his teaching method was wrong, or he disliked that his teaching was too slow and not suitable for him.
Time passed slowly. When the swan had been able to flap its wings and become a famous aviator after rigorous training, the duck, who had always been intelligent, had never achieved anything. His only improvement in flight was the flapping wings. Reluctantly "flying" from one pond to another, after flying over, there was a spot of yellow dust and a spot of feathers...
When the duck is on the ground looking up at the swan on the top of its head, he will always send out this emotion to the other animals around him: "Ah, the swan is a good life, and he has a teacher who suits him. In fact, he is very Stupid, I'm so smart. If I meet a teacher who suits me earlier, I will definitely fly better than him. Maybe when you want to see me, you have to look for it on Mount Everest!"
In real life, it is not uncommon for ducks to complain in similar stories: "He was not as good as me when he was in school, and he was not a class leader. He did not have as good organizational skills as me, but why could he be short after graduation? Become my superior in just two years?" "Just his little ability, hey, don't say that I underestimate him, he is far behind me! Without my assistance, his manager's position can sit so securely ?"
Whether you are really better than the other party, or because you are jealous of the other party's achievements, when you look down on others, even if the other party puts thousands of efforts to achieve an achievement, you will be full of complaints.
You will doubt the authenticity of other people’s achievements, and by the way, you have to lament that your own fortune is not good. In the end, the efforts of others and the final results become worthless in your eyes, and the only thing you value is the "no encounter A self with a good opportunity", this self-blaming you looks a bit lonely and a bit ridiculous in the eyes of onlookers.
Don't despise anyone around you, even if that person is now as small as a small grain of sand in the vast desert. Respect for others means respect for yourself. Understand the achievements of others, your life will be relaxed because of so much less complaining.