On his knees, a cute boy is packing the sand into a bucket at a beautiful beach. He turns the bucket upside down and _______ it. To the _______ of the little architect, a castle tower is created. He works all afternoon packing the walls, building sentries （哨兵）with bottle tops and bridges with sticks. And a sandcastle will be built.

In a big city with _______ streets and traffic, a man is working in an office. He packs papers into piles, holds the phone between his _______ and shoulder and _______ the keyboard with his fingers. Contracts gets signed and to the joy of the man, a _______ is made. His pension will be sentries and capital gains will be _______ . An empire will be built.

The two builders of the two castles have very much _______. They both _______smallness into greatness. They both make something beautiful out of __________ . And for both, the tide will rise and the __________ will come. Yet that is where the __________ stop. The little boy sees the end of his castle while the man __________ it. As the dusk approaches and waves near, the child __________ to his feet and begins to clap as the waves wash away his __________ . There is no sorrow, no __________ and no regret. He smiles and goes home.

The man in his office is not very __________ like the child. As his empire is fading, he is terrified, trying to __________ it. "It's my castle!” He __________     at the incoming tide.

Go ahead and build your dreams, but with a child's heart. When the sun __________ and the tides take, just applaud. Salute the process of life and go home with a smile.

When my son, Justin, was four, he found a caterpillar (毛虫) and put it in a jar. Each day he fed it with fresh grass and leaves. In a few weeks we discovered it _________in a cocoon (茧).

Justin was excited. He knew a moth (蛾) or butterfly was about to be _________, but he didn’t know what kind. He was_________to know what gift nature was about to give him.

“Dad!” shouted the boy while running to me one day. “Something’s _________. Come see!”

He led me to his room. The cocoon had become half transparent and we could _________ the wings of the unborn. Soon, a moth broke free from the cocoon, and laid eggs completing the life _________of the little caterpillar.

The next day, I convinced Justin it was time to set the moth free. He took it _________ , opened the jar, and the little moth flew out. It _________the yard twice, came back, and landed on Justin’s arm. He picked it up, tossed it in the air, and the moth repeated its _________ pattern. He tried over and over, but each time it would __________ to his arm.

Justin__________. He put his little pet back to the jar. The next day he attempted to set it free again, and after a few repetitions of the same behavior, the moth__________flew off into the grass.

Like a __________, I believe the moth was afraid to leave what it was comfortable with. It wanted to stay with something__________, scared to move on and experience something unknown.

I was once that little moth. My cocoon was my mother’s __________ , in which I was comfortable. Like the moth, I didn’t want to fly too far away from it. I was__________ when my first job required me to move to a new city. What would I find there? I liked__________I was.

Humans are creatures of __________. We resist change. However, if I hadn’t moved, I would not have experienced many__________and wonderful things or met many of my friends. So each move gave me the __________to learn and experience, but best of all, I met friends.

A woman professor walked around in a classroom while she was teaching stress management to her students. As she_______a glass of water, everyone _______they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.

Answers called out ____from eight to twenty ounces(盎司).

She quieted the students down and then replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t ____. It all depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a ____. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my ____. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel ____and paralyzed. In each case, the ____of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. Do you know why?”

All the students kept silent and listened carefully, lost in thought.

She continued, “Our ____and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and ____happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to ____. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed— ____to do anything.”

It’s important to remember to ____your stresses. As early in the evening as possible, put all your ____down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

More often than not life gets terrible ____we think too much. And the moment you remove your burden, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more ____.

So rather than moping around(闲逛）and feeling sorry for yourself, ____doing something about it. After all, life is too short to ____yourself to anything that’s not making you happy.