I know a director of a chemical plant who has the habit of writing a diary every day. After others got off work, he sat alone in the office sorting out the day's work. There are many technical terms for chemical production in the diary, such as propylene, platinum reforming, atmospheric and vacuum distillation, catalytic cracking, naphtha, etc. If you have never worked in a chemical factory, these words are difficult to understand. Maybe he thinks quickly. The factory director's handwriting is very sloppy, and only he can read some words clearly.

I have heard of many celebrity diaries, such as "Zeng Guofan's Diary","Zhu Kezhen's Diary" and "Wu Mi's Diary"... I started writing diaries when I was in the third grade of primary school. At that time,"Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" was the main theme of the times. At the class meeting, the teacher read "Lei Feng Diary" one after another and called on students to copy it:"Human life is limited, but serving the people is unlimited. I want to devote my limited life to unlimited serving the people." "Youth is always beautiful, but true youth belongs only to those who always strive for the top, those who always work selflessly, and those who are always humble." "Treat comrades as warm as spring, treat work as hot as summer, treat individualism as autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves, and treat enemies as cruel and ruthless as a severe winter."

In that era, we didn't know who the "enemy" was or how beautiful our youth would be in the future, but we could still do it through labor. Every week, the school organizes students to work in the "school fields". I studied at Daqing Petrochemical Children's Primary School. The "school land" is a piece of land allocated to the school by the factory. Spring planting, summer hoes, and autumn harvest are all completed by the students. Labor in the spring breeze, the scorching sun, and the autumn rain again and again also gives us the opportunity to write a diary again and again.

I remember one summer in the fourth grade. It had just rained the first day. After the rain, the seedlings grew quickly, and the grass grew quickly. In order not to let the grass take away the nutrients from the seedlings, the school organized us to weed the corn the next afternoon. I wrote down the labor situation that day in my diary:

"June 21, sunny. Today, the school organizes us to go to the school field to mow weeds. We carried hoes, lined up neatly, sang "learn from the good example of Lei Feng" and went to the 'school field'. After walking for about half an hour, we came to the school field. The teacher gave everyone a ridge, pointed out what is the seedling and what is the grass, and asked everyone not to shovel the seedling. Some students began to work before the teacher finished talking. After shoveling about 100 meters, I felt very tired. Looking up, the ridge could not be seen at a glance. Well, when will it end? Look at the students around me, some in front of me, some behind me. Anyway, everyone wants to finish shoveling quickly and get to the ground early. The teacher is also a supervisor to see who shoveled the seedlings and who didn't shovel the grass. As long as you make a mistake, you will be criticized and reworked. I don't want to be criticized, and I don't want to be left behind, so I move forward with a hoe with my head down, and I don't have a rest when I'm tired. Relying on my indomitable will, I was the first to reach the ground. When I got to the ground, I drank a few mouthfuls of water and went to help Li Dongmei, who was left behind. This is really a meaningful work. "

When the teacher checked the diary, he found that there were plots in my diary about helping others. He thought it was well written and read it aloud in class. I feel very happy.

The Diary of Lei Feng brings me the fire of ideal. Iron man Wang Jinxi's "the north wind as an electric fan, heavy snow as fried noodles" was also recorded in my diary. When I am an adult, I will also write on a blank piece of paper what Ironman and Lei Feng said, including "people are light without pressure, and oil cannot be produced without pressure". Words such as "if you have the conditions to go up, and if you don't have the conditions to create conditions, you have to go to true youth." it only belongs to those who will always strive for the top. I think these words are philosophical and memorable. Lei Feng spirit has gone through 60 years, still blooming the bright light of the times. From the perspective of personal growth, Lei Feng Diary accompanies me from youth and youth to middle age, and will always accompany me to the end of my life. "A class stand with a clear distinction between love and hate, and a revolutionary spirit that matches words with deeds." This is clearly a person's mind, bottom line, but also a person's firm belief and character. Sometimes, I will turn over the new version of Lei Feng Diary and let certain sentences motivate myself to become more sober, more powerful, more tolerant, and more capable of facing new life and challenges, so that I will not become "older".

What era and who wrote the first diary? It started from the day there were words. Aren't the words engraved on the turtle's backs and animal bones record the sun, moon, moon, rain, snow, frost and frost of heaven and earth?

One day when I went to the supermarket to buy groceries, I met the old factory director who loved to write a diary-he lived in a neighborhood adjacent to me. Although everyone was wearing masks, I still recognized him at a glance. He heard my voice and knew who I was. The old factory director is over 70 years old, but he is physically strong, energetic and has a loud voice. We stood in the corner of the supermarket and chatted. As we chatted, we reached the diary. He said that he still reads newspapers and magazines published in the oil industry every day, and of course he writes a diary. This is not only out of love, but also exercises his brain power... After listening to his words, I admire this former superior even more.

Although I am near retirement age, I still keep a diary every day. Thirty years ago, the plastic skin of the diary was yellowed, and the ink inside was gradually fading, but I believe they will not disappear. The paths of life we have traveled are like slow water, deep and long, flowing quietly...

有时候，我觉得 Writing a diary is like a long-distance running, racing yourself against yourself. Maybe it is only 10,000 meters, maybe it is a marathon, which makes people dare not slack off. Although the strokes in the diary may seem a little vague, they are real and powerful.

(This article was originally published in China Petroleum News)

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text:Daqing Petrochemical Fengwei

edit:Luan Yi

editor:he Li

audit:Li Xiangyang

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