I had never picked up a camera before my freshman year in 2012, when my journey to an artist began. For four years, I ________ G-Star School of The Arts, where my ________ for photography and filmmaking were awaken.

Having seen my first short film, my teacher came over, saying: “You got a good ________. Why not consider doing this as your profession. I think you’ve got a ________ in it”. Then, it clicked. I, therefore, ________ my bank account and bought my first camera.

Since then, I was amazed by the ________ the world has to offer. I have to ________, though: I, shy and chicken-hearted, tended to capture nature-related scenes, ________ anything to do with people.

As I was ________ my way, I started photographing myself, the only one I felt ________ with. The camera soon became my strongest ________, serving as the tool for how I expressed myself. Gradually, I gained enough ________ to start taking photos of other people, greatly touched by how I was able to ________ the best in them through the lens (镜头).

Each year, I would look back on all of the shots I did that year and would ________ them to the first one I ever took in my career. Although the progress seemed substantial, I realized the key to growth as an artist is to never be ________. This allows me to create progressively better work year after year.

I was catching a flight from Calcutta to Madras and had arrived at the airport rather early. I had always thought of airports as _________ places until I saw a young couple sitting a few seats away from me, and _________ the woman was crying. I realized that though airports were places of delightful _________, they could also be about difficult departure.

The young man who looked obviously connected to the woman didn’t even try to _________ her. After a certain amount of _________, I walked over with a Smile Stone—a small marble with a smile _________ on it—in my hand and said, “Excuse me, can I give this to you?” And I held out one of the sky-blue Smile Stones. Tears filled _________ eyes. “Why?” she wanted to know. “To make you smile.” She took it quickly and _________ a quick, grateful smile.

Later as my bag was going through the security _________, a uniformed, unsmiling young lady pulled my backpack onto a side table and started unceremoniously (毫不客气地) unzipping (拉开拉链) its various sections and ____________ the contents in the mildly aggressive ____________ that airport security staff sometimes have. When she put her ____________ quickly into the front pocket, she came up with a handful of smile stones—they smiled at her ____________ and her face gently broke into a smile. The whole ____________ of her interaction with my backpack and with me shifted in that second. I pulled out one of the smile stones and said, “This is for you, to ____________ you to keep smiling.”

A few years ago, I was working in a small office. I noticed that even though the ________ of the organization was not huge, we often worked in different teams. While everyone was friendly, there was a(n) ________ atmosphere in the workplace culture.

One week, I ________ to make people smile, but I wanted to do it quietly, perhaps in the hope of inviting a sense of trust or playfulness in the office ________. So one evening, I wrote a few quotes that had encouraged me over the years. The next________ . I went to work a bit early and ________ posted them by the sinks and ________ in the office restrooms. Maybe someone else would enjoy the ________ as much as I had, and perhaps they might just brighten their day, I thought.

For the next few months, some of the quotes got ________ but I noticed that some remained. So perhaps others ________ them, too. Finally, I finished my job with that organization and went to work in another ________.

A few years passed, during which I got ________ from my former boss and ________ every so often. A few months ago, I was ________ to a meeting with my former team to hear how the project I had worked on was going. ________ I no longer worked in this office, I had really ________ working with them, and was happy to see them all again.

Toward the end of the ________ I went to the restroom, and the quote that I had written was still up in the same spot by the mirror! What a ________! It read “The real ________ of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new ________.”