“Are you really going to eat another piece of pizza?” It was at my fourteenth birthday party that I received my first _________ related comment. After that day, comments like this _________ in my head longer than they should have. I was _________ picking flaws (缺点) in my figure in the mirror.

I decided that I couldn’t eat like this in order to be _________. It started out as just a little extra _________ every day, like running, but it quickly turned into _________ meals and working out every night before bed. As I _________ the calories, the comments started to change. Perhaps my _________ comment was “You’re so skinny.”

Maybe others didn’t know it, but their comments were _________ my social construction of beauty. However, my condition slowly became worse. My caloric intake was less than that of a child and I no longer had the __________ to do the things I once enjoyed.

Everything changed when I got a call from the director at my dance studio. She __________ me that she had wanted to move me to the advanced level, __________ she noticed I was too skinny. I then realized I nearly __________ my role in The Nutcracker. I was determined that I wasn’t going to let society’s idea of beauty be the death of me.

I want to get better for real this time. Mirrors and scales (秤) have no __________ of who I am. Social constructions of beauty will always be __________ in the world that I live in but I’ve decided not to let them rule over me.

My life turned a corner two years before. I realized, my first and real enthusiasm is writing _______. As a child, I was introvert (内向的) , and basically a bookworm. The only thing I wished for, was _______, and I used to finish them as quickly as I could. Along with reading, I loved _______ — but at that time, it was mainly prose (散文)! My love for writing started with writing journals, and _______. Even before my teens, I had _______ in many countries, and then technology wasn't as _______as it is now. I guess my letters were quite poetic and charming, because my pen-friends told me that they _______ my letters even after I stopped writing to them as _______ was expensive!

Then my following life wasn't poetic anymore! I _______ pouring my emotions in journals or diaries. Many years passed! Was poetry my passion? Probably! One day two years earlier, one of my childhood friends wrote to me, “Hi there! How many books have you ________ ever since?”

That communication suddenly ________ me up, and lit my dream that I was eager to publish my own collection of poems. The ________ from my childhood came back, I ________ who I was. At that moment, I felt very excited and within a (n) ________ moment, I wrote my first poem! That poem was actually ________, may be one of the best of what I have written so far!

After that first ________, I realized what my real passion was! And poems started coming one after another! Sometimes I got up at ________, and thought about some lines! And I had to write them ________, otherwise these lines will slide away!

The terrible epidemic (流行病) ________ me to write several poems, which may ________ indescribable sufferings of people.

When I was just out of college, I managed to get my dream job as a trader in New York City on the floor of the American Stock (股票) Exchange. Though it was a proud________, the job was simply too physically________. I must stand in a crowd every day, which often________me in a mindset (心态) that held me back.

Manhattan is a walking town and it’s difficult to________when you have a disability. Taxis are expensive and riding the subway________dozens of steep steps to get below________. This left me only one________— the bus.

One night, after the________for my job, I was aching with my self-pity________it started to rain on my walk to the bus stop. I became more and more________without an umbrella, thinking I’d never________it in this city and telling myself, “this city is just too hard” and “maybe it is just not possible for a guy like me”.

And then, I________the most beautiful, short moment. A couple came rolling by on roller skates, hand________hand as they skated what seemed like the tango (探戈). They were all wet but they saw the________as an opportunity and romance.

I suddenly became________for waiting in the rain because I would have missed this beauty________if I had been in a taxi or on the subway. This, although________, was an important moment on my journey to discovering the________of achieving health and happiness. When I change my mindset,________for a moment, to what is possible and work to get rid of the self-limiting beliefs that________my daily actions, I will be on the road to a healthier, happier life.