It's a memorable period when I lost a long time job. It happened in 2004, when our company announced the job _________, facing the global economic crisis. We all _________ the insurance company we worked for was not as _________ as it used to be. Then, one day, I entered my office and was _________ I got fired.

During that week, I did almost nothing to change my situation, _________ renewing my old contacts with writers that I built when I worked as an experienced _________ many years ago. Beyond this, I remained a _________ unemployed loser. Soon enough, I received an order from a writer. Then I was _________ by a few more people who needed my services, and gradually my reputation recovered.

Though this _________ job couldn't support me long. I could make ends meet while __________ a job. During my hard times, I made the __________ of a man from Japan, who wanted to have his novel translated into English quickly, and I __________ that. We worked together for a while. He inspired me to find new opportunities from __________ companies instead of the same ones. I started to look at the world from another __________; I figured out what I truly wanted, and __________ the thought that “the man is for work, not the work for the man”.

I had a philosophy professor who was the typically off-the-wall philosopher. His appearance was _______ by a worn sport coat and poor-fitting thick glasses which often _______ on the tip of his nose. Every now and then, as most philosophy professors do, his lessons would go off well on one of those “what’s the meaning of life” discussions. Many of those discussions went _______ but there were a few that really _______ home. This was one of them:

“Respond to the following questions by a show of hands,” my professor _______. “How many of you can tell me something about your parents?” Everyone’s hand went up.

“How many of you can tell me something about your great-grandparents?” Two out of sixty students _______ their hands.

“_______ the room,” he said. “In just two short generations _______ any of us even knows who our own great-grandparents were.”

“Oh sure, maybe we have an old photograph _______ in a dusty cigar box or know the classic family ________ about how one of them walked five miles to school barefoot. But how many of us really know who they were? ________ three generations, our ancestors are all but forgotten. Will this happen to you?”

“Here’s a better question. ________ three generations. ________ you sitting in this room, now it’s your great-grandchildren. Or will you be forgotten, too? Is your life going to be a ________ or an example? What legacy will you leave? The choice is yours. Class dismissed.” Nobody ________ from their seat for a good five minutes.

I happened to see my first butterfly of the spring today. I was carrying some groceries into my house when _______ the little lady flew right down in front of my face. She was so _______ that my heart beat with love and my eyes filled with _______. After she left I smiled, wiped my eyes, and_______ for the miracle of life and the miracle of butterflies.

Butterflies have held a(n) _______ place in my heart ever since I _______ my mum when she was only 55 years old. She used to _______ it when the butterflies would _______ near her while she tended her flower boxes. She would even speak to them gently in her musical _______. After she died I would think of her when I saw one of the wonderful angels ________by. I even told my young children that every time they saw a butterfly, it was their ________ saying “Hello” from Heaven.

When today’s butterfly ________ to say “Hi”, I once again felt a ________ beyond words. I felt like it was my mum showing her love. I felt like I was ________ on the clouds with her while a thousand angels sang.

Now some may say that I am just a ________ man, but I know this isn’t so. Delusions (幻觉) ________ your life with love. Delusions fill your heart with ________. The next time that you get your own “Hello from Heaven” then don’t ________it. Welcome it into your soul ________. Let it help you to be the people that the loving person wants you to be. Let its love ________ you.