Return to Zero

Can I “represent the determination and enthusiasm of everyone?

I think… I have to work harder and be better

Than my original self.

“Hello everyone. I am a freshman of the 18th grade undergraduate of the Performing Arts College-Wu Lei.” This seems to be the first time in 20 years that I have truly experienced the joy of dreams. I remember that a big girl turned out a moving picture. It was when I was a child shouting “I will take the Beijing Film Academy too” in a certain product (that red turtleneck sweater really “blind” me). I was originally memorizing lines. but I don’t know when I started, so I remembered this sentence in my heart.

Time is also very fast from a line when I was young, to the day of determining my intentions, preparing for the art test, going to the examination room, and preparing for the college entrance examination. I still don’t like to recall the time when I was preparing for the exam at home. Every day in a room like a “little black room”, behind the cabinet are various textbooks, test papers. and reference books placed in different subjects. Different subjects grab my brain cells on time at a fixed time. Among them. they are called mathematics. That subject seems to empty my head.. Forget it. forget it don’t mention it. But at the moment when I learned the results of the college entrance examination. I felt that people should still have dreams, and they really have to work hard along with their dreams. Because after hard work, when you realize your dream, you will feel that life is really worthwhile.

Then I stepped into the gate of Beijing Film Academy. After self-satisfaction and joy. I begin to feel novel and ambitious. I have really entered university and can appreciate what others say “open your eyes to see the world”. According to my ideals. I am fortunate to move towards an institution where more professional knowledge can be obtained. Will I live up to expectations? Can I be what I want?

Then. I walked to the podium of the opening ceremony. Wearing the short-sleeved school uniform of the Beijing Film Academy, looking at the crowds of people in the audience, for a moment I felt a little weak. All of you here are young people who have the same dreams as me. Who have come to pass. Everyone seems to have great skill and full of ambition. I am just one of the ordinary. But I was standing opposite them. I was not standing among them. Although I was just speaking, I could see the momentum and power in the eyes of everyone in the audience more clearly. Can I represent” the determination and enthusiasm of everyone? I feel that I must work harder and be better than I was.

The moment I stepped onto the podium. for me, it was actually a new beginning. Everything before is completely gone. Everyone stands at the same starting point with the same hot ideals. No one brings their own buff Everyone is working hard for their love, and so am I. All the experiences in the past ten years, add, subtract, multiply and divide to get a lucky me to realize my little dream. When I was 18 years old. I gave myself a “return to zero”. “with the most modest attitude. the most authentic enthusiasm, down-to-earth artistic creation, and become a true film-maker.” Wu Lei, start working hard from “new”!

Translation credit to  @wuleiarchive