Have you ever complained（抱怨）why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you.

While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?

One day it is fine. But just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the rain in time, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.

Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes he has to face failure bravely. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”

Attitude（态度）decides everything. With an optimistic（乐观）attitude life is easy and pleasant.　　1　　.

It was a sunny day. A little girl sat on a chair outside, holding two apples in her hands. She enjoyed looking at the beautiful clouds in the sky.

At that time, her mom came to her and softly asked her “Sweetie, could you give Mom one apple?”

The girl looked at her mom for a second without saying anything. Then she suddenly took a bite on one apple and just after that quickly she took a bite of the other apple which she was holding in her other hand.

Seeing this, her mother felt surprised and unhappy. She kept smiling because she didn’t want to show her sadness.

Then after a minute, the little girl handed one of the apples to her mom and said, “Mom, take this one. This is the sweeter one.”

Suddenly, her mom got to know her mistake of quickly judging (评价) the act of her daughter in the wrong way. A strong feeling went up in her heart—she felt really sorry for her mistake and was deeply touched by what her daughter did.

I remember her words, Mrs. Price, our high school teacher in that little town of Westminster, in Western Maryland, said, “You belong in college, and I’m going to do everything I can to get you there.” For me, college was something out of the question, something on a very far planet, something only, those people who had special rights did. I said, “I can’t go to college because I don’t have the money. I’m going to join the army.” Even though I was graduating at the top of my class in that small town, and enjoyed the experience of learning and thinking.

She said, “Maybe you have a gift that can make a difference in the world. I want you to continue your education. I think I can get you into Johns Hopkins University. And I’m working on the money.” Finally, I was off to college.

One day I was walking from the parking lot to my first class, talking with my friend and classmate, and we passed by a group of men who were digging a deep ditch. Suddenly, I knew why I was in college. She was right. I had a gift that could take me to wonderful places. I decided to make my living with my brain, because I had a choice they didn’t have: an education.

Some years ago, as I thought about the experience, it came to me: “Maybe I could find Mrs. Price. Maybe she’s still living in Westminster. I could go back there and visit her, bring her a gift, and really let her know how much I’m thankful for what she had done for me.”

So, I began to search online for information about where she might be. I soon discovered an article about her death, written in the Baltimore Sun and dated October 8, 2001.

I learn a lesson from my story: If you love someone; if you thank them; if you’re grateful to them, tell them now. One day it will be too late. Well...anyway...Mrs. Price, wherever you are, thank you.