I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.

I was on my lunch break and had ___ the office to get something to eat . On the way, I __ a Busker(街头艺人)，with a hat in front of him. I had some __ in my pocket but I would not give them to him, thinking to myself he would __ use the money to feed his addiction to drugs or alcohol. He __ like that type-young and ragged. ___what was I going to spend the money on ? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I then __ I had no right to place myself above __ just because he was busking.

I   ___ and dropped all the coins into his __, and he smiled at me, I watched for a while. As __ as it sounds, I expected something   more to come from that moment—a feeling of ___or satisfaction, for example. But nothing happened ___, I walked off. “It proved to be a waste of __ ,”I thought.

On my way home at the end of the __, I saw the busker again and he was __ . I watched him pick up the hat and walk ___a cafe counter. There he poured the __ contents into a tin collecting __ an earthquake fund-raising(募捐) event. He was busking for charity(慈善)！

Now I donate any __ I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving.

In American culture, I am noticing a lack of respect, especially among children. This should be treated ________ since disrespectful children will become disrespectful adults. American culture is ________ the ways of teaching respect, while other cultures have methods that Americans could learn from.

Once I spent several months in Kenya living with a Maasai family. One of their customs is the ________ that the children give the adults. When an adult approaches children, they will ________and lean their heads slightly saying “Suppa”. The adult responses by saying “Ippa” and touching their heads. This simple act shows respect for the adult. The children ________ that they are their elder who deserves respect.

Later, I worked at a children’s home in Carolina where the children were taught to respect their elders. They ________me as “Mr. Vince” and every worker there with a “Mr, Mrs, or Ms.”. However, as I talk to teachers working with children now, there seems to be a ________ in such a friendly behavior that children give adults. Fewer students treat teachers with respect: Children frequently talk back to their teachers and ________ their authority (权威). Children ________ speak with other adults like waiters in the way as if they were close friends.

Immanuel Kant expressed two ________ attitudes still common today in Europe. One is that only humans freely choose to act on principles by ________ laws on themselves. It is this mind based on ________ that makes humans unique. Second, to learn to follow principles, a human child needs to learn to follow the laws of ________. They must practice ________ rules before they are able to practice autonomy (自主权). Kant said that “act in the way you want others to act in the situation, taking other people as persons, not ________ you use for your own goals”. Only in this way can you become a real person with intrinsic values.

Years ago, a neighbour kid kicked a football and broke a small ______ of our house. We were a family living on a small ______ at the time, so I boarded it up, thinking I’d get to it someday.

Over the years, I’d sometimes ask some advice from window companies. The plan was to upgrade to energy-efficient windows for the whole house, an ______ process—$ 15, 000. It was simply out of ______ and I turned it down again.

______ the thought of that window ate at me for years. Every time I went down there, it kept ______ me. I knew I needed to deal with it, but I had built up the ______ so much in my mind that I put it off again and again.

Then my wife had a job ______ , and we needed to move. A ______ buyer couldn’t get a loan on the house if there was a ______ window. So I pulled off the boards to face this thing. It had already been for at least 5 years.

I used some rust remover(除锈剂), sprayed all around the rusted frame, and gave it a ______ pull. To my ______ , it easily moved. I pulled the window out and took it downtown. It was a 12 fix.

I could have fixed the problem for 12 the ______ day when it happened. But I let it worry me for years.

______ , this isn’t just about my window. Many of us tend to live with broken windows of one type or another for years. We suffer more in ______ than in reality. Step forward, and you’ll find a solution.