Living a fulfilling life is far less complicated than you think. 【小题1】 It takes time to heal the negative and grow the positive in its place. The following tips are highly recommended.

Say “Yes!” more often.

“Yes” is a key that opens up doors to things you may have never known. Don’t define yourself by everything you think you know about. Take some risks! Say yes to opportunities when they come around! Life is a constant learning process where you will hopefully gain new perspectives. 【小题2】

Forgive easily and often.

【小题3】 But actually, there is a huge middle ground where pretty much everyone is. Let go of the mindset of good and bad. Instead, let people be the flawed creatures they are. Forgive yourself for not doing the right things, and then make better choices now that you know better.

Contribute to others’ happiness.

A fulfilling life requires abandoning patterns of self-absorption and selfishness. 【小题4】 It means you lift your eyes above your own life and consider how to better the lives of others. As you see your words and actions contributing positively to others’ lives, your life has a great deal of meaning.

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You’ll hardly feel fulfilled if your energy goes in only one direction—out. Just as you pour love into others, you must do the same to yourself. Take time to nurture your own self with passions, self-care, or goal-oriented activities. It doesn’t have to be something grand or expensive. Taking a stroll in nature or curling up with a good book are excellent ways of experiencing personal happiness.

At some point, everyone has the desire（渴望）to fit into a group. If you're interested in sports, you might hang out with those who like sports. 【小题1】 You feel comfortable when you are part of that group.

But what if people in your group start doing things that are wrong, hurtful, or even against the law? And what if these people are your friends?

【小题2】 It is the pressure（压力）to follow the behaviors, attitudes, and personal habits of the group. In marry cases, there are serious risks involved（涉及）.

You need to think about the risks ahead of time. 【小题3】 Could this harm me physically? Could this harm someone else? ls this against the law?

Now, let's lighten up. You can also use peer（同辈）pressure to your advantage. 【小题4】

For example, if you're active in sports, your teammates probably pressure you to be the best you can be. If you're working hard for good grades, you compare your scores to those at the top of the list. If you're in the band, and there are musicians better than you, you are pressured into trying to be the best musician you can be.

【小题5】 When faced with group invitations, think about the risks ahead of time. If you are uncomfortable doing something, don't be afraid to turn down the invitation with a "no, thanks." The choice is yours.

I grew up eating eggs from white shells; I didn't know they could be any other color.

Our eggs came from the grocery store in styrofoam packaging, and the eggs in the refrigerators at all my friends' houses were exactly the same. Life in the 1970s and 1980s meant no farmer's markets, no trips to farms and no concept of food variety.

When I began buying my eggs at the farmer's market, things changed. The eggs were brown and usually in paperboard cartons or Styrofoam cartons that were clearly being reused.

I know I'm not the only one who had that experience with eggs, so it's no wonder that many people assume brown eggs are more nutritious. If we're working off the assumption that all white eggs at the grocery store come from big factory farms and that all brown eggs come from local farmers who raise free­range chickens... sure. Brown is better.

But is that true?

Eggshell color is determined by the breed of the hen, not by the conditions in which the chicken is raised. Generally speaking, you can tell whether eggs will be white by looking at a hen's earlobes, the colored skin on the side of the head. Hens with white earlobes generally lay white eggs. Hens with brown or reddish earlobes generally lay eggs that are brown, or sometimes light green, blue or a speckled creamy color, according to Michigan State University Extension.

No one breed of hen, however, is proven to lay a more nutritious egg than another, despite the color of the eggshell. Not all eggs are created equal because not all hens are raised the same way.

A test done by Mother Earth News on eggs taken from 14 flocks around the country whose hens were allowed frequent access to fresh pasture, land covered with grass, found that true free­range eggs were nutritionally superior to eggs sold in grocery stores.

“True” free­range means just that eggs from the grocery store that are marketed as free range do not necessarily come from hens that have spent their days wandering the barnyard, getting fresh air and eating a natural diet. When “Free­range” is on an egg carton, it means that the chickens can move around their building and have access to the outdoors “during their production cycle”．

But access doesn't guarantee time outside. There's no regulation that says getting to that door has to be easy, how big the outdoor area must be, or that a chicken ever has to get outside. A chicken in a crowded henhouse may never get to the door, and if it manages to go through it, it may find there's no room for it in the small area outside.

That's why it's so hard to determine if free­range eggs at the store come from truly free­range chickens. At a farm or farmers' market, you can ask about the conditions that the hens' are raised in before you buy.

Another factor in the nutrition of an egg is the hens' diet. Although chickens are not vegetarians by nature—bugs and worms are part of their natural diets—Consumer Reports tested grocery store eggs and found that “hens fed vegetarian diets tended to have more of certain vitamins and omega­3s than those from hens fed a conventional diet”.

So when you're choosing eggs and aiming for nutrition, don't judge an egg by its shell color. White eggs can be just as nutritious as brown eggs. Hens that are kept in conditions that are natural to them—with access to the outdoors, sunlight and exercise—and fed a good diet are what you're looking for. To find them, you'll need to ask some questions and, perhaps, pay a little more, because raising hens in pastures costs more than raising them at factory farming.