All roads lead to Rome. Examination is the most convenient way to Rome.

I am a cruel mother. Last Wednesday at six o\’clock in the morning, Xiaoxi was woken up on time and said she felt uncomfortable all over. She suspected that she had a fever. When she took her temperature, it turned out to be a high fever. I took leave for her and went to the hospital. The result of the examination was tonsillitis, so I took medicine at home and slept for the whole day. The next morning her fever had not gone away, so I extended her leave for another day. At noon, I saw that she was in good spirits and the temperature had almost dropped, so I asked her to do the homework assigned by the teacher yesterday. The child was very reluctant. On the one hand, she is still not feeling well. On the other hand, she may feel that being sick is like a vacation and she doesn\’t need to study. I had to remind her that you must make up for all the courses you missed in the past two days. Any homework you have not done must be made up for when you return to school tomorrow. Imagine that you have to make up for so many extra courses and homework on an already very tight schedule. How can you manage it? The eldest child complained unhappily. I remembered that when Nuo Xi’s father heard that his child had tonsil inflammation and a high fever, he asked me to take three days off for her to rest at home. I said we would wait and see how she recovered and go to school, but he said I was cruel. Am I cruel? I am a mother, and I want my children to have a good rest and be healthy more than anyone else! But, child, you have to know that for ordinary people like us, taking exams is a threshold that you cannot avoid. You must either cross it or be tripped by it. Children, if you can’t get into high school or university in Shanghai, the admission rate from junior high school to high school is a little over 50% on average, which means that almost half of the children can go to ordinary high schools and have a chance to get into university. The other half of the children either go to the \”three schools\” of technical schools, technical secondary schools, and vocational high schools, or choose to go abroad. My child, if you fail to enter high school in the future, what choice will you make? If you choose to go to one of the \”three schools\”, you cannot say that the future will be dark and hopeless. It is not difficult to make a living. But a job with low threshold and low requirements will inevitably give you low rewards. You may not have many choices or much freedom, and you only work to make ends meet. Moreover, this is a truly \”rapidly changing\” era, and countless technical jobs may be replaced by machines at any time, or lose the meaning of existence due to social development. If your position no longer exists, and you have only received nine years of basic education, what knowledge reserves will you use to adapt to this rapidly changing world? If you choose to go abroad, judging from the current economic conditions of our family, it cannot be said that it is hopeless, but it will definitely be under great pressure. Let’s not talk about financial pressure. That is something we as parents should consider. Let’s just talk about going abroad. For more than ten years, you have been accustomed to having to stretch out your hands for clothes and open your mouth for food. Suddenly you have to live alone in a place where you have no friends and no language. You can only imagine how difficult it is. It is a cruel choice to send you abroad when you are still completely unable to take care of yourself. Instead of doing this, it is better to force you to study hard before everything is too late. You have to know that an exam is the fairest thing you can ever encounter in your life. It is also one of the few things in your life where you can completely decide the outcome by yourself. The exam is a passThe most convenient road to Rome is said to be \”all roads lead to Rome\”. Yes, there are many roads to Rome. However, some roads are flat and straight, some are rugged and narrow, and some are winding and winding. , some roads are even full of forks like a maze. For most people, exams are the smoothest and straightest road. If you don\’t pass the exam, why do you want to live and work? How to get to Rome? Some people are born with outstanding looks, some are extremely talented in music, some have excellent painting skills, some have excellent athletic ability, some have outstanding writing skills… These people may not pass the exam and go straight to a certain battlefield, where they can settle down and live, and even achieved great success. Children, ask yourself, do you have a talent that surpasses most people in some aspect? If not, please try your best on the main battlefield of exam taking! There is no need to be \”envious and jealous\” of those who choose other paths, because even if they have the extra \”1% talent\” God has given them, they still need \”99% effort\” to achieve success. Poetry and distance are the Roman children in my heart. Let us make a hypothesis: if one day, you are suddenly blindfolded, plugged in your ears, put in a sack, and sent to an unknown country or planet, what will you do? Unable to find the way they came, they cannot leave on their own and have to wait to be taken back. People generally need to live there for 5-10 years. How do you want to spend these 5-10 years? If it were me, I hope I can walk around, see, and understand how big the new country or planet is, who lives here, and how other people live. Seeing the scenery, eating delicious food, enjoying things, and living happily will make your visit worthwhile. Of course I had to work first to survive, and if my job was low-return, I might just be able to survive until the day I was picked up. If my job was more rewarding, I would have the money and time to travel and spend the next few years on my own terms. In fact, human life is like such an \”unexpected trip\”. We do not choose to be born by our parents, everyone is \”being alive\”. Under normal circumstances, it is not we who choose to leave this world, we are all \”being born\”. die\”. Now that you are \”alive\”, how do you spend this life? I believe that you, like me, hope to travel around, learn about the world, appreciate the beautiful scenery, enjoy delicious food… and live freely and happily. This is \”Poetry and Distance\”, this is the Rome in our minds. To have \”poetry and distance,\” you should, as Long Yingtai said, \”choose a job that is meaningful and has time, rather than being forced to make a living…\” To reach Rome, you must first cross the threshold of the exam. My child, I know you don’t like taking exams, but we can’t change the current situation of taking exams, and we can’t avoid the threshold of exams. We can only adapt to it and overcome it. If you have no choice, please try your best to do it well!