The phone was hung up and Jiang Yanyun was slightly lost in thought. She didn't know why, but she remembered that Gao Wen had just learned tennis when he was a child. Not long ago, he was severely ravaged by a kid three years older than him in a practice match, which was almost humiliating. Sexually, Gawain understood the huge gap between the two.
At the scene, Gawain showed his grace and shook hands with the older child, and said that he would continue to work hard and would not see anything unusual when he came back. However, at night, Gawain secretly buried himself in the bed and cried hard. , my eyes were still slightly swollen when I woke up the next day.
Before that day, Gao Wen's tennis training was purely to exert his physical strength. He spent three days fishing and two days drying the net. Startled——
Because they sent Gao Wen to learn tennis just to show off his prowess, and they never wanted Gao Wen to become a professional player; but seeing Gao Wen devote himself to training, the light in his eyes was different, and Gao Hongli couldn't help but Begins to worry about Gawain's condition.
Three months later, Gao Wen and the older child faced off again. Gao Wen won by twelve points in a row and beat the child to tears on the spot, so that Gao Hongli and Jiang Yanyun had to apologize to the child's parents.
The memory was already far away, even a little blurry, but today Jiang Yanyun thought about it again. For some reason, those details were vivid.
"How about it?"
Looking up, Jiang Yanyun saw Gao Hongli's worried eyes. Jiang Yanyun thought for a moment, and then smiled slightly.
"Xiao Wu will be fine."
Jiang Yanyun is confident.
…
In this room, Gawain also hung up the phone, his eyes were slightly red, he raised his head and glanced at Sampras, trying to say something, but thousands of words were surging in his chest, and he couldn't find an expression for a while. , rarely at a loss for words, just smiled at Sampras.
Sampras couldn't understand Chinese at all. Those languages were like alien languages. He had no idea, but it could be seen from Gawain's expression that this phone call was very important.
"Are your parents okay?"
Gawain didn't speak, just smiled and nodded heavily.
"Are they worried about you?"
Gawain nodded silently again, the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little bitter, a little happy, a little sad and a little relaxed, with mixed and contradictory emotions intertwined together.
And not just because of this phone call.
In his last life, Gawain had to say goodbye to tennis due to a knee injury. In fact, he and his parents had a very serious quarrel because of this matter.
Gao Wen wanted to continue to persevere and get back on the field after recovery, rehabilitation, and practice; but this time, his parents did not support his choice.
They believe that the impact of the injury is not limited to this one time, but may have an impact on the entire career, but Gao Wen does not have so much time and talent to squander gambling; they hope that Gao Wen can complete his studies and follow this path. See the future clearly and move on.
Discussion, quarrel, cold war, communication.
In the end, reason prevailed over emotion, and Gawain finally agreed with his parents' ideas.
Gao Wen knew that if he continued to persevere, his parents would definitely support him; but the long and arduous rehabilitation and repeated knee water accumulation were indeed the cruel reality before him. After much thinking, Gao Wen made a choice. .
That was Gawain's decision, so he didn't blame his parents.
However, life was different after all. After returning to China to work, he stayed in Shanghai. He still had a harmonious relationship with his parents, but there was always a thin layer of separation between them——
His struggles, regrets, and pain never disappeared and reappeared in his dreams at midnight. However, he could not tell his parents or anyone. He could only silently lick his wounds and endure life. the weight of.
Even though they all know the problem, they still have no way to change it. This is precisely the cruelest and most helpless part of real life.
Now.
Faced with challenges and difficulties again, Gawain realized that in fact, for his parents, compared with championships, victories, and wealth, what they care about most is always their own happiness and happiness. From beginning to end, everything is It has nothing to do with tennis, everything to do with him.
Traveling through time and space, breaking boundaries, I never really felt this until this moment.
The turbulent emotions made Gawain a little embarrassed.
Sampras quietly watched Gawain's surge of emotions. In addition to confusion, there were more and more emotions in his eyes. He was no longer his usual calm, energetic appearance, and inadvertently revealed a little vulnerability. , but it makes Gawain more real and more vivid.
The words that came from the bottom of my heart were blurted out before my thoughts started running.
"Don't think."
"Don't try to find the answer, just remember the feeling of this moment firmly. This confusion, this loss, this bitterness and this regret, this feeling of being at a loss and lingering, are imprinted in your mind. Remember it all the time, and then turn it into your motivation to move forward.”
"It is precisely because of the feeling at this moment that we are inspired to keep working hard, making progress, and fighting hard. In the painful lessons of failure again and again, we continue to grow, fight, challenge, and make breakthroughs."
Deeply, Sampras looked at Gawain deeply and pointed at his head with his finger.
"Gawain, remember this forever."
"Don't forget, you are still young and you still have a long career ahead of you. This not only means that you still have many opportunities to face big winds and waves and countless challenges, but it also means that you still have growth and improvement. Space."
"Loss is not only the opposite of victory, but also a wake-up call to remind yourself not to stand still. There are challenges and limits waiting for you ahead."
As he spoke, Sampras' thoughts became smoother. He saw himself in Gawain, and in a daze, it was as if he was giving advice to his younger self.
"You know, everyone says a tennis career should be divided into two parts, one before you win a Grand Slam and another after you win a Grand Slam."
"Because winning a Grand Slam is a goal that everyone can see. It's like climbing a mountain. You just need to keep your head down and sprint. But after winning a Grand Slam, it's a process of standing on the top and climbing into the clouds. You need to face more. There are many challenges and you need to accept them. Maintaining the lead is much more difficult than chasing the leader.”
“Sustaining the top is more difficult than climbing to the top.”
"So, now it has just begun, your career, a new world is unfolding in front of you, you still have many, many things to complete, here, you need to start over, you need to continue to learn, you will not want to Staying where you are.”
Then, Sampras watched Gao Wen's eyes brighten again little by little, raised his right fist, patted his chest gently, and showed a shallow smile.
He said.
"Keep-fighting, keep-pounding."
