When I was in my college, I have a full class schedule and a part-time job. I_________had time for exercise.

What’s worse, I ate much fast food. Undoubtedly, I was _________ .

After graduation, I decided to go to the_________. Together with a friend, I began to _________ regularly. I was very satisfied. We went to the gym every day. My friend, however, became_________. One day, he suggested that we take up a sport.

I was not _________ , so I didn’t want to take up a sport. And no one was going to change my mind. However, after a few weeks, I stepped onto an outdoor racquetball(壁球) court unwillingly. I hit the ball, sending it flying in every direction except for the direction that I had _________

But as I was beginning to feel comfortable, my _________suggested we play tennis instead. Tennis? I can’t play tennis! I was strongly against my friend’s new_________. However, weeks later, I found myself standing on a tennis court. Awkwardly, I __________after every ball that he served to me, completely __________about ninety percent of them, and hitting the rest into the woods and the other court.

The first few months were quite__________. But one day, as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in what tennis players consider as the “sweet spot(最佳击球点) ”. I __________ in surprise as my return landed powerfully on the other side of the court, almost exactly where I had aimed. I finally learned how to play tennis!

Obviously, if I hadn’t stepped outside of my comfort zone, I would have never __________ how much I enjoyed tennis. I began to try new things willingly with a sense of__________.

When was the last time you made space in your life to play? When I was a kid, I knew exactly what play ______. It was climbing trees. It was ______ mud pies. But as I got older, I found people around were less and less ______ of my playful attitude. Pressure from work ______ me to tone down my personality until I almost forgot how to ______. It’s a common story. As we grow up, we ______our connection to our childhood memories of imagination and play. We’re told to act ______ and not waste time.

This is a problem. Play is an ______ need like sleep and nutrition. When we don’t experience it ______ we will have deficits(缺失). Researchers argue that play can allow us to think more creatively and ______ social cooperation.

To bring more play into your life, you don’t necessarily need to make any significant ______ or rework your entire schedule. You can start small, something as ______ as observing tiny moments in nature. Any increase in play throughout your day is a ______—whether it’s a hobby like painting, playing a board game, or just a new, ______ attitude. Just follow the example of your inner child and he can lead you to find more ______.

It’s 2023 and almost everyone with a smartphone also has a high-resolution (分辨率) camera built-in. We carry this image-making ________ with us at all times. We snap photos and videos of our daily lives.

Every day I record something. It seems I ________ go 24 hours without snapping a photo or video of some sort. I began to wonder — why? Why can’t I just go a day without pressing the shutter (快门) button? My huge number of photos and videos began to ________ me.

I’ve loved photography since I was a teenager. Lots of cherished family ________ were documented. Revisiting them was like ________ a treasure box. I’m ________ for these visual records because they showed my youth and growth.

For more than a decade I worked as a professional filmmaker and photographer because I loved the ________ conveyed by the story on video. I recorded a wide range of varieties, therefore collecting tens of thousands of ________ — both still and moving. However, gradually I felt I was drowning under them and so I deleted a large part. This was ________ but in some ways it set me free.

Image taking and ________ have greatly changed ever since the social media became popular. Like it or not, it’s not surprising to see many have become ________ sharing our lives on the social media — about 86 million images are ________ to Wechat daily. We want to show others what we’re up to. We want to be seen. We want to ________. Perhaps it helps us feel less ________ as if someone is there to see us grow and achieve. We don’t feel as if we’re ________.