Yash Gupta

Yash Gupta has worn glasses for many years. When they broke one ay and he was not able to wear thenm to school, he had a big problem. 【小题1】At the end of the day, he realized that he had learned nothing that day!

Yash quickly got his glasses fixed, but his experience changed his life. He realized that there were probably many kids around the world that did not have proper glasses to help them learn in school. 【小题2】 He found out that 13 million children around the world don't have proper glasses to help them see in class. Instead of just shaking his head at this problem, he decided to do something about it. 【小题3】 Its goal is to help find glasses for other kids and teens that need them.

He created Sight Learning in 2011 and since then he has changed the lives of thousands of young students around the world! The organization has tried to provide eyeglasses to students who need them but cannot afford them. It has collected and given away over $1,000,000 worth of eyeglasses. 【小题4】

As Dr. Seuss, a famous writer, once said, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” 【小题5】 He has taken action to not only improve his own life, but those of others.

If something that you’re doing doesn’t challenge you, then it doesn’t change you. 【小题1】 You can never see any improvement if you stick to your comfort zone. So challenge the following limits:

Figure out what you’re scared of and do it continuously.

If you’re a salesman, and you’re scared of talking to people personally or over the phone, now, instead of being scared and thinking you’ll fail, spend at least five minutes a day picking up the phone and making a call. Someone may hang up on you. 【小题2】

Eventually, you can look at fear in the eyes and say, “Go on, I’m not scared!”

Take a class for a hobby you’ve been wanting to develop.

Make sure this hobby is not linked to your career; you have to relax and relieve your stress while performing this. 【小题3】

Apart from helping you challenge yourself, taking a class for your hobby may also give you extra income.

Set aside at least nine minutes a day for physical exercise.

You don’t need to go to the gym. 【小题4】 Exercise can not only help you maintain your regular weight, but also make you feel better about yourself.

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Don’t just limit yourself to your fellow travelers — try to connect with the service staff.

You never know what kind of people they’re going to be. Get out of your house or go online right now to book your class. Start to travel now and learn to challenge yourself.

A 1930s-ancient restaurant in my town has done little to update itself over the past 80 years. This is part of its charm, as is the wooden phone booth（亭）sitting neglected in the age of the cellphone. And we need it now more than ever.

For me it symbolizes that phone calls were once private affairs, even if the information being shared was not sensitive. In public places this meant resorting to the phone booth—a private space where one could converse in peace without being overheard.

When I grew up in the 1960s, phone calls used to be regarded as something private, even at home. However, within the space of very few years, private conversations have become public broadcasts, and being overheard seems to be the point. The problem, of course, is that we now carry our phones with us and answer the device as soon as it rings, but at the price of our privacy being disclosed!

Not long ago I was sitting in Boston's South Station, waiting for my train while a man was on his cellphone. I silently recited every detail of his phone conversation including his card number and its password. I stared at the fellow. He glanced at me, asking, "What?” My immediate response： Reciting all I had overheard to him, which left him opening his eyes wide.

There is no more privacy, no longer a sense of personal borders or limits. The cellphone has become a megaphone, making our privacy known so easily to others.

To return to phone booths： Why did they disappear? They used to be everywhere in my childhood and can readily serve as cellphone shelters today. A Mr. Riley had one in his small, struggling candy store where I grew up. Even at the age of 9, before I had acquired any life experiences, I would have labeled “private”, I would sometimes separate myself from my friends, close its door, and call home in peace and quiet.

Should you think a phone booth has no value today, I saw one on eBay going for $ 4,750.

And Mr. Riley would have flipped.