Life is like a kind of game with five balls. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit. And you are keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back(反弹).【小题1】 If you drop one of them, they will be broken and never be the same.

So don't judge your worth by comparing(比较) yourselves with others.【小题2】Don't set your goals by what other people feel important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.【小题3】 It is by taking chances that you learn how to be brave.

Don't throw love out of our life by saying it is impossible to find.【小题4】And the best way to keep love is to give it wings to fly.

Life is not a running race.【小题5】

Josh caught a pass and scored. He helped his university basketball team Vermont Catamounts win the match in March. The coaches and players of both teams cheered on him. Josh shouted, “I did it! I’m a college basketball player!”

Five years ago, Josh almost died in a car accident, only months after being accepted by the University of Vermont Catamounts. In fact, playing for the University of Vermont Catamounts had always been his dream.

After the accident, he went into a coma（昏迷）and the doctors told his parents that he might not wake up for the rest of his life. But his parents never lost hope. Four weeks later, Josh proved （证明）them right. He not only learned to walk but also started to talk again. And soon he was even working out. But the dream of playing basketball was the strongest driving power in Josh’s being well again.

Just a year and a half after the accident, he headed to the University of Vermont to start college. With arm tremors（颤抖）and short-term memory loss, Josh knew he would never play for the University of Vermont, but he watched every practice from the sidelines（边线）and then became an important part of the team. His coach said, “Josh’s shown the whole team how to get through difficulties.”

Now 24, Josh will graduate from the University of Vermont in May with a 3. 4 GPA and plans to work with kids. Josh tells people who are fighting against their own trouble, “Always have a dream in your mind and follow after it as hard as you can.”

A group of boys stood around a tree. “What a tall tree!” they said to each other. “It would be exciting to climb to the top!”

The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they played.

One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would win.

Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as high as they could. Although the other boys climbed faster than David in the beginning, he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end.

His mother was proud (自豪的). She asked him. “David, how did you reach the top of the tree so quickly?”

“It was easy,” David said. “The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they knew how high they were, they were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top.”

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals (目标).