Have you worked hard?
Author: Anonymous
In 1927, the Mississippi River Dike in Arkansas was rushing by the flood. The home of a 9-year-old black boy was destroyed. At the moment of flooding, the mother took him to pull him on the embankment.
In 1932, he graduated from the eighth grade of the boy, because the secondary school of Arkansas did not recruit black people, he can only go to Chicago to read middle school, there is not so much money at home. At that time, the mother made an amazing decision - let the boy recover for one year. She is a whole 50 workers laundry, ironing and cooking, and paying money to the child.
In the summer of 1933, the family was full of hard-earned money, and the mother embedded on the train with a boy, and rushed to unfamiliar Chicago, the mother made a living by the maid. The boy graduated in excellent results, and later completed the university successfully. In 1942, he began to create a magazine, but the last obstacle is the lack of $ 500 postage, and cannot send a letter to the subscriber. A credit company is willing to lend, but there is a condition to have a property of mortgage. The mother has bought a batch of new furniture for a long time, which is the most loved thing in her life. But she finally agreed to make furniture mortgage.
In 1943, the magazine gains a huge success. The boy is finally able to do their own dreams for many years: put the mother in his salary roster, and tell her that it is a retired worker, and I don't have to work. That day, my mother cried, and the boy was crying.
Later, in a past day, everything of the boy seems to fall into the bottom of the valley, facing huge difficulties and obstacles, the boy has no power to return. His mood tells her mother: "Mom, it seems that I have to fail this time."
"Son," she said, "Are you trying to try it?"
"Try it."
"Is it very hard?"
"Yes it is."
"Very good." The mother concluded the conversation. "Whenever you try to try, you will not fail."
Sure enough, the boy had passed the difficulties and climbed the peak of the cause. This man is a well-known world's US
