I just ended a six year relationship. I found myself alone, feeling ________, often with an empty room for company (陪伴) on weekends. For the first time, I wondered if I had a mental ________.

After weeks of feeling ________ and sitting on my sofa crying, I decided to take action to turn my ________ around. I realized I didn’t have disease. I just hadn’t been meeting my basic needs in a ________ and balanced way.

After taking action to ________ a new diploma (文凭), I reflected (思考) on how much better after I was meeting my basic needs, and how happy and ________ I felt as a result. I also recognized that I was meeting the ________ in a new way. People were amazed when I told them what I was   ________.

Seven years later, I never ________ the basic need. At the moment I am ________ for my third marathon. People tell me how ________ I am when I am running. I feel very happy, so I look after my body better. I have achieved a goal, and I go on to do something ________ with my time to meet other needs.

My dear friends, as we head into the New Year, I’d like to ________ you to spend an evening together, ________ some music you enjoy, look at each of the different needs and check how well you are ________ each one of your needs. If you do not meet a need fully, don’t worry. Worry is useless. ________, think about what action you can take to improve this ________ and write down some steps to achieve that. Like me with my ________, you may find that while meeting one need, you end up meeting others ________ as a result.

Long long time ago, in a small and distant _________, there was a place known _________ the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and _________ to visit it. When he arrived, he _________ happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail _________ as fast as it could. To his great _________, he found himself staring at 1000 other _________ little dogs with their tails wagging (摇摆) just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was _________ with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he _________ the House, he thought to himself, “This is a __________ place. I will come back and visit it often.”

In the same village, __________ little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, was determined to visit the house. He __________ climbed the stairs and __________ his head as he looked into the door. __________ he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled (怒吼) at them and was __________ to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, “That is a terrible place, and I will __________ go back there again.”

All the faces in the world are __________. When you smile at the world, the whole world will __________ at you, and vice verse (反之亦然). __________, it is you who can choose to be happy or to be upset. And what kinds of reflections (思考) do you see in the __________ of the people you meet?

The story happened when I was ten years old. At that time we had to move to a(n) _________place. I was sorry because I had spent all those years in that old house. When the day came, I ran to a corner and sat ________. I thought and thought and began to cry. Suddenly I felt a hand on my head, I looked ________. It was my grandpa. I knew he was sorry too. He sat beside me and said, “It is _________, isn’t it, Tommy?” _________ I could find any words, he went on saying, “Good-bye is a cold word, too cold for us to ________.”

Then we walked in the garden, hand in hand. We _______ in front of some flowers. “It’s so _______here.” I said.

“Yes, you think it is beautiful only because it is a special place in your ________,” said my grandpa.

After a moment he said, “I planted the _______ a long time ago, when your father was born. Then the _______ came. Like many the other youths he went away to fight. Ten ________ later, news came that your father had died. That afternoon I picked some flowers from here, put them in front of his ________ and said good-bye to him.”

With tears in his eyes, grandpa ________me in his arms and said, “We are going to ________ far away, but we won’t say good-bye to our old house, never, never...”