I did something wrong today.

While at the beach this afternoon, I met a boy called Bob. We chatted a lot. He said that it was fun to play on the cliffs(悬崖). I told him that I was not allowed to go near that place(Mom and Dad had always told me it was dangerous to play there). He called me a coward. I wanted to prove(证明) that I was brave, so I agreed to go with him.

We wanted to make our way down to explore(探索) the area, so Bob started to climb down and I followed him. Unluckily, some rocks came down after us. One of them nearly hit my head. We could not get back up. We shouted and shouted for help, but for a long time, no help came. I was really scared. I wanted to cry. Then, we heard some sounds. Someone heard us. A woman tied(系) a rope around herself while a man at the cliff top held the rope. She made her way down to save us. My parents were relieved that I was unhurt, but they were angry that I had done such a risky thing. I apologized and promised that I would not do anything like that again.

At my primary school, I was one of the smartest kids there. I never studied, but always got perfect scores. I thought I was born clever. At least I believed so. I was also a prodigy in music according to myself. I could sing better than almost everyone else in my school. I was pretty sure that once I got to seventh grade, everyone would be surprised by me.

But actually they weren’t.

When I arrived at my new class, I couldn’t wait to show everyone what I could do. However, there was always someone else who could do better than me. My grades began to get worse.

Over the next two years, I had to work very hard. Every prize for the singing competition was given to me for hard work and effort. Grades was still very low but improving little by little. I worked really hard. However, I was never the best at everything. I haven’t realized until recently that I really don’t have to be the best at everything. I was too hard on myself. In fact, my classmates never laughed at me.

No one is perfect. There will probably always be someone better than me at something. Anyway, there are about seven billion people in this world. I will never be the number one at everything, and that’s really okay.

When I was a child, there was a pot of butterfly flowers in my room. I often stood on the bench （凳子） and looked at them for a long time. I couldn’t help but have a big question mark in my heart. These were such beautiful flowers, but they had no sweet smell. What a pity! So, after thinking about it, I had a wonderful idea and decided to do something for them.

One day, when my parents were not at home, I picked a bottle of perfume（香水）from my mother’s dressing table. Then I unscrewed （拧开） the bottle cap and sprayed （喷） perfume on the flowers evenly. I was happy that I finally helped the flowers and started to imagine that when my parents came back home, they would be amazed at my brilliant idea. But to my surprise, after a few days, the flowers slowly lost vitality and their petals（花瓣）withered（枯萎）. Finally, they died from absorbing the perfume’s ethylalcohol （乙醇）. I cried and realized my behavior was ill-considered.

Although butterfly flowers are beautiful, they have no sweet smell. Just like us, they are not perfect, with both advantages and disadvantages. We can’t impose （把……强加于）our own ideas on other things and just look at the surface of things. We should learn the laws of nature when we want to give help or improve our own lives.