Blog 6: As long as you are good enough

As long as you are good enough

Yang Liping, the great and famous Chinese dancer . Especially after the 2012 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Evening, We can easily find many praises to her in the Internet.When reporters asked her if dance is the reason why she does not want a baby. She replied that" Different people have different aims to life. Some are continuing their clan; some are enjoying; some are asking for. While I am a watcher. The reason why I come to this world is watching how trees are growing; how rivers are flowing; how clouds are fluttering and how dews are freezing.

I still remember a sentence Yang said in the TV program" A Date With Lu Yu" , which moved me very much. Yang birthed in a remote mountain in Yunnan Province.So she can always get inspirations from flowers; birds; fishes; insects; fluttering clouds and flowing watter in the nature. When she joined the Chinese central national dancing and singing troupe, she thought the traditional training methods were totally different from her intuitions for dancing. Therefore she refused the collective training and insisted her own methods. She got many criticisms even leaders canceled her subsidies. Lu Yu asked her is it may cause that her leader would reduce her opportunities to perform. Yang replied that "As along as you are good enough, they must employ you."

This earthy sentence moved me very much. Because it told out a truth which is always ignored by people who are always saying that they are ambitious but nobody can know and dig them up. The truth is that sometimes we do not achieve our ideals or lose our dreams is not other people's responsibilities. It is just because we are not good enough. The reason why this sentence moved me is neither encouraging nor comforting. On the contrary, it is a kind of warning. Because "As along as you are good enough" is a pretty hard condition which need you dig out all your potential abilities and sagacities; take all your responsibilities; bear all the foolish, mistakes and fails, face your hesitations and weaknesses directly.

Faced with the frustrations, somebody are easily to turn to two kinds of people. One kind is kicker. The other kind is rageful people. All of them will push their disappointments to the world. Through the angry and rage, they absolve their responsibilities. At the same time they give up their possibilities to improve.

Yang Liping followed troupe to cross the forests in Yunnan Province when she was 11 years old. Strode the elephant's excrements and suffered the vipers, many of her teammates complained this kind miserable life and left. However, in Yang's eyes all of these are beautiful, wonderful and enjoyable. The experiences in the troupe are too tough for others, but Yang overcame all the trouble. When Lu Yu ask her how did these problems influence her. She just replied that" You just know what is your behaviors' value. Then you will bear all your grievances." With this kind of attitude, Yang keeps training after others' train every night. Finally she created the famous dance "Que Zhi Ling" and got many prizes just because of that sentence" as long as you are good enough, they must employ you."

When you complain you are not successful, please considerate that do you think you are facing more problems than Yang? Some people think she had more chances at her age. But I cannot agree. Every people will have some chances, only once or twice is enough. Just they have not prepared enough. Please remember" As long as you are good enough".