This is life, no matter what your attitude is! Happiness and sadness can switch in one's heart at an amazing and unacceptable speed. I am experiencing such a contrast the lately two days, a happy yesterday and a sad today. Is it supposed that if you undergo sorrow first you will enjoy your happiness more? If such is the case, I am suffering my sadness more severely.
Fifty days ago, Michelle told me excitedly that her package arrived finally after one-month eternal waiting. She even wrote a blog “received my package today” to express her delight. I commented on her blog and delivered my congratulations to her, but not showing that I also wanted to receive a package from my mother. So last Wednesday when mother phoned me that she had sent out a package to me, I was very delighted. Unanticipatedly, it arrived yesterday, taking only seven days, less than a quarter of the time Michelle had waited for! Maybe I can say that I was even more blissful than the then joyous Michelle because I did not suffer an unendurable wait and received it with not only the feeling of my family’s care but also great surprise. “What a lucky boy I am!” I kept saying to myself to dispel the unhappiness caused by the loss of my camera and recent illness.
However, this morning the defeat of our debate team was an ominous sign of today’s misfortune. We got the results of Progress Test II after the debate. While many of my group mates were celebrating their prodigious progress inwardly, I was facing the undeniable fact that I did even worse than the first one. I did not expect so awful despite that I had already known that I did not well judging from the unreasonable time allocation during the test.
Fortunately, I had a great talk with two of my group mates during the wonderful lunch in McDonald’s. I complaint about my recent unhappy things to them but they managed to persuade me to think more about the positive sides of my life. Everybody has his harassment and how do I know others are really luckier than I? We should pay more attention to the basic elements of our lives rather than those small trivial things. Recent unhealthiness can be the incentive to more exercise, which could make one stronger. And today’s failure may be the foundation of tomorrow’s success. What I need to do is do more sports and bear in mind the reason why I failed. As long as I distribute my time sensibly during next test, I have the confidence that I will do much better.
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Life is full of surprises. Do not always think of how unlucky you are. Forget these unhappy things, and think more of the happy ones, then you will feel better. Marks can not represent everything. What really matters is that if you have learnt something in this bridging course. So cheer up, and with an enthusiastic mind welcome a new day!
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that I feel guilty because we failed the debate in represent of the class. Then I turned into a better mood because I got the chance to know Wang Liu Si's English is so excellent! It feels a little surprising that we greet each other everyday and play badminton together but I didn't know about her excellent English, doesn't it? I admire her. I didn't do well in the progressing test either. What I want to say is that try to not let the bad situation get better of you. After all, tomorrow is another day.
ReplyDeleteLike what you have said, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I feel sad or dispirited once in a while,but I always have ways to cheer myself up. I hope that you can also find more and more positive things of the world.