What do you think of life? Life comes in a package (包、捆). This package includes happiness and sadness, failure (失败) and success and so on. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us be a better person. With each passing day, we learn to do with all kinds of situations.

Love is very important in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love, a person could become unkind. In the early period of our life, our parents are the ones who show us with love and care. They teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad. But many of us don’t always care about it in the beginning.

Happiness can bring people a relaxing mind. No mind is happy without peace (宁静). Sadness comes from the death, the failure, etc. But all of these things will pass away. Failure is the way to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to continue to live and shows us a special way. Success brings in money, pride and self-respect (自尊).

Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Life teaches us not to be sad even in the darkest hour, because there is a day after every night.

Life teaches us not to regret (后悔) over yesterday, as it has passed and is out of our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dark. Instead, we should do our best to work hard today so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.

A poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists (专家) to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room.

She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She began to read the following words: "Paid in full with one glass of milk"

On a cold early morning, an old woman was carrying a big basket of cabbages on her head to the market. She hoped to sell them to the people in the town.

The mountain road was narrow (狭窄的) and the old woman was walking carefully, because she did not want to lose her cabbages. Suddenly she heard a loud bell and a bicycle came round. It passed her and went very fast down the hill. The old woman had to jump up to one side of the road so quickly that the basket of cabbages nearly fell into the valley (山谷). She looked up, and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was riding on without even looking round to see whether the old woman was all right. The old woman began to shout, “Come back, young man! You dropped something!”

When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he nearly fell off. Then he turned and began to push the bicycle back up to the hill. “What is it?” he asked. “What did I drop?”

“Little boy,” the old woman answered, “you dropped your manners (礼貌).”