In a world where comparisons happen non-stop, it is difficult to look outside yourself and to ever be 1 with who you are. There's always someone who's a bit 2. The only solution is to reach 3 and measure against what Warren Buffett calls your own inner yardstick. There is no more 4 measure for comparison than who you were yesterday, last week or last decade, when you were at your 5.
Nothing useful ever comes from comparison to others. 6 you see yourself as better than someone and you get 7, or you see someone else as better than you and you feel like all your hard work is for 8. It is a fool's game. Not one of us is 9 alike. The only direct and honest comparison is 10 yourself. Everything else is apples to oranges.
My opinion is that you are only 11 to compare yourself to someone else if their life 12 is the same as your own. Good luck finding that match. And one thing is for sure. No matter how hard you work and how 13 you are, there will always be someone who can run a little faster, jump a little higher, score a little better or look a little nicer in a swimsuit. And if there's not, you can 14 someone is coming up fast behind you. So how can you always win in life? Become your best 15.
Having an image of your most recent past limits is the perfect thing to 16 you to the next level. If you ran 7 flights of stairs yesterday, then do 8 today. Who 17 if the guy next to you did 15? It doesn't make a bit of 18. You are a more fit person today than you were yesterday. Your own 19 is all you need.
If you 20 to a slightly higher standard of yourself every day, you will always be at the top of your game.
It was August 2nd, 1927. The news had spread 1 .
A man named Craig Pierce was coming to the city of Bristol. He wanted to make recordings of local people singing and playing musical instruments. And he said he would 2 fifty dollars for each song recorded. That was a huge 3 in those days. Many people came to Bristol that day to 4 for Mr. Pierce. But one group seemed to have just the sound that he was 5. They were a man named A.P. Carter，his wife Sara，and her cousin Maybelle. They 6 themselves the Carter Family.
Their first recordings were sent to 7 throughout the United States. Many listeners were 8 at what they heard. Instead of classical or jazz songs that radio stations usually played，a new 9 was born. The Carter Family sounded 10 . They did not sound 11 they had taken music lessons. But it did not matter. The people in poor rural areas thought they sounded just like their 12 .
The Carters sang songs about living in the mountains of Virginia，Tennessee，and North Carolina. They sang about the 13 of a young man for a special girl. They sang about the beauty of nature. They sang about death and sadness. And they sang religious songs that told of the hope for a(an) 14 life after death.
A.P. Carter sang in the group and also searched for 15 songs. He often traveled long 16 to small towns in the southeastern United States. He wanted to hear the songs that 17 people sang in their communities. He wrote down the words but kept the music in his 18. When he returned home, he helped Sara and Maybelle fit them to the Carter Family musical 19. The Carter Family soon became popular. Within three years, the Carter Family sold 300,000 recordings.
Life is like a stage, on which gold will 20.
The next time you get caught jumping on your bed you can tell your parents with a straight face that you are not playing, simply getting ready got a promising career in “Mattress Jumping”. Believe it or not, there are some people who actually get paid to do that! According to Reuben Reynoso, a professional mattress tester at San Francisco's McRoskey Mattress Factory that still makes every mattress by hand, it is real work and needs some training. For a start, it's not all about jumping to new heights or doing tricks like professional athletes, but rather about feeling each area of the mattress carefully to detect the filling. In order to do it right, every bit of the mattress has to be tested slowly and deliberately.
Over the years, Reynoso has figured out the perfect routine. He begins by placing a protective mat over the mattress so that it doesn't get dirty or absorb the smell from his feet. Then begins the fun—he steps to the middle of an edge and then takes five steps back and five steps forward. In this way, he slowly but surely, covers the entire surface. The key according to him is to find the perfect number of jumps—Too many and he will end up destroying the mattress completely. Too few And it will not fit into the giant machine for that final sewing! Who knew a job that sounds so simple could have so many skills!
While Reuben will not reveal how he got into this profession, he will admit that it is more fun than being a carpenter, roofer, construction worker and railroad engineer—all jobs he has tried previous to finding his true profession!
Most people in school liked Gloria. So when she got sick, some boys 1 to visit her. But none of them wanted to 2 any money for a gift to bring along.
Then Willie said, “We can 3 some flowers from a 4.”
Gloria will not know 5 they come from, and the dead man will not 6 them.
Everybody was afraid, 7 Willie. So he went alone and 8 some beautiful flowers. Then they went to Gloria's 9, and the boys acted as if the flowers were from all of them, but 10 did not mind.
After their visit, Willie 11 the other boys, “It is a good thing that I was not afraid. Gloria 12 the flowers.”
The other boys laughed. Gloria would not have liked the 13 if she had known they had come from a grave.
That night, Willie was reading a book 14 his mother came into his room. “Willie, did you and other boys buy some flowers today 15 Gloria?” she asked. “There's a man 16 asking for you,” she added. “He says that you didn't 17 the flowers.”
“What does he look 18?” Willie asked.
“That's hard to say,” Willie's mother answered. “He is all 19 with mud.”
Willie, all of a sudden, turned 20.
Saying thank you can have positive effects on your health and the well-being of others.
I once witnessed kindness from complete1 last year and it really impressed me. It was a sunny afternoon. It 2 me at first that my partner fall unconscious on the ground suddenly on our way to the office. Soon I realized that I had to calm down and call3 services. Within minutes, a police car and ambulance arrived4 with police and nursing staff. My partner was rushed to the5 where he received the care that he 6.
Few days later, my partner got better, and I wrote thank-you notes to those 7police and nursing staff and baked for them. When I 8 the cakes to them the next day, they thanked me for the gifts. Thanked me? All I'd done was baking, but they'd 9 a life. I drove away feeling relaxed and 10 partly because I'd done a good deed, but11because I was amazed that there are so many12people. They do a lot of great things13they expect nothing in return.
Research has shown that sharing thoughts of gratitude (感恩) and performing acts of kindness can 14 your mood and health condition. I think it is probably 15 I felt happier than usual then.
“We know from studies in the literature that gratitude does have a good 16on how you feel, and that it17 life satisfaction.” says Willibald Ruch, a psychology professor at the University of Zurich who researches the effects of character strengths 18gratitude and humour. “It's 19 the top five causes of happiness.” he adds.
You can20 positive changes in your own life by choosing to embrace gratitude.
Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. 1, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2and ill.
My father was 3a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness4 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. E ven talking is 5. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started6about life, and I told them about one of my 7. I said that we must very often give up things 8we grow—our youth, our beauty, our friends—but it always9that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father10up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up 11! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 12, he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (恼怒的) at someone, I would remember his 15 and become16. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 17 to give up my small irritations. In this 18, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I 19what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one 20.
"The biggest obstacles (阻碍) in our lives are the barriers our mind creates..." The quote I saw in an old friend's house when I was about eleven has got me through the 1 parts of my life, which has actually been based on it. When I 2 for the basketball team, not 3 it became what I was worried about most. I went to the tryouts but simply sat on the sidelines and 4. I missed out on making the team, not for lack of 5, but because of the rather too big barriers I bore in my head preventing me getting around and then 6 the ball.
The year continued, and at that age I hadn't overcome the fears 7 in my mind. Football season came and yet again I had to try out for the team, 8 to display myself to the full. Once again the barrier in my head kept me from doing something I loved.
From that moment on I knew that God wouldn't make barriers if somebody could 9 them. I started training, mentally, 10, and emotionally.
I went to a small 11 in the county where the teachers didn't care whether you succeeded. I went to practice daily and competed as if it was my 12 day outing on a helmet. Later that week I made the football team. But it was simply 13. In my eyes this wasn't good enough, and I could do much better. In the middle of the season, the coaches said I was 14 to play with the big boys, and before I knew it I was starting as a(n) 15.
I'd come a long way from the little boy that was scared from his own 16 I had 17 in whatever I did. I tried out for wrestling and made the team, the AAU basketball team and made that 18. I then realized I was a(n) 19 athlete, and that the obstacle course started to become smaller. I chose to 20 myself and let nothing get in the way.
On a cold winter evening, I was walking home, tired and hungry, when suddenly came screams (呼喊声) from behind some tress. 1, I slowed down to listen, and2that what I was hearing were the sounds of a fight. A woman was being3not far from where I stood.
"Should I go to help her?" I thought. I was worried about my own4, and I regretted having suddenly decided to take a new way home that night. "What if I'm5too? Shouldn't I just6to the nearest phone and call the police?" But already the girl's7were growing weaker. I knew it was time for me to act fast because I could not8to the life of this unknown woman, 9it meant risking my own life.
I am not a10man. I didn't know where I found the11and physical strength (体力), but once I had finally12to help the girl, I became suddenly changed. I ran behind the bushes and13the attacker off the woman. Struggling, we fell to the ground, where we fought for a few minutes14the man jumped up and escaped.
15heavily, I stood up and came up to the girl, who was crying behind a tree. In the16, I could not see her clearly, but I could certainly17her shock. Not wanting to frighten her any further, I at first spoke to her from a distance.
"It's OK," I said18. "The man ran away. You're safe now. "There was a long stop and then I heard the words, said in both wonder and19. "Dad, is that you?" And then, from behind the tree, stepped my youngest20, Katherine.
Fresh out of acting school, I got a job with a touring theater company. The terms were unreasonable: $300 for a month's work, to be 1 at the end of that month. Only one meal a day would be 2; for the rest, we were on our own.
Our first venue (演出地点) was a holiday center. The waiters 3 us from the start. They refused to give us spoons and knives at dinner, while our meal cooled. It was 4.
At the second venue, we 5 to make some changes to the show for the new stage. While we practiced, I saw a table being set. I felt 6. It was midday, which 7 that they were serving us lunch. Getting lunch would mean no hot dinner because of the "one meal a day" item. We 8depended on dinner being our hot meal of the day.
We were called over to 9 .The table was beautifully set. The sandwiches were generous. Afterward, I told the headwaiter that we 10 our one meal to be dinner.
Our dinner would be at six, the headwaiter said. He 11 that the "one meal a day" item in our contract (合同) was stupid and the venue would 12 us lunch and dinner daily.
We returned at six, 13 and nervous because this seemed too good to be 14. We were served by a 15 waiter who sang to us. He refilled our water glasses and took orders for coffee. At the end, we tried to bus our dishes to the kitchen, 16 the headwaiter said that we didn't have to do that and explained, "It is only 17 for us if you let us do it right."
That was 20 years ago, and I learned a 18 that I'II never forget: Take pleasure in 19. Be kind. Treat those who have 20 to give you as well as you would treat a paying customer.
My 83-year-old mother was very ill and I had to put my life on hold to look after her. I 1 a bowl when she felt sick, and lit fires to keep her 2. I cooked and persuadedher to take a few 3.
It's hard to take care of a dying parent, whoever you are. It was 4 hard for me because I am a doctor myself. I couldn't help looking at her in two different ways. The medical 5saw the body with the coldness that medicine6. But the saw the7woman who had given birth to me, sent me off to college and had been a8presence in my life for over half a century.9, my mother didn't appreciate how hard it was for me to10her. I remember an exchange between her and the nurse who came to see her once a week: "You could get some more help with care." "Oh, I don't think I need that," Mom said. Mom didn't understand that the
11would have taken some of the burden off me.
None of the treatments her doctors gave her12 She refused painkillers for a long time, but finally the pain13her. When she accepted, the painkillers, she accepted the14that she would die.
While living, being and dying with Mom I15something precious dawning. We became closer. We16so many stories from our past that it was17our memories had become one. In the past our relationship had been difficult. We had often18.But when the end came,' both of us19; accepted that we looked at the world in different ways. We were daughter and mother and we loved each other. That was all that20.
An incident that happened last month has always made me think deeply.
One day our eleven-year-old son came back home from school 1. A couple of the older kids had 2 him at the bus stop. Rob wanted to stay home from school so he wouldn't have to3 the boys.
We called the school. We were told, “We'll be4 to call the boys' parents, and you should call the5.”
“We don't know what we will do yet.” I said.
I felt that calling the police was a6 to be used when everything else failed, and I wanted first to7 other ways of dealing with the situation. I asked him to put off calling the boys' parents.
The next day was Saturday. Rob happened to look out of the window and said in8, “There are the boys who9 me up!” Two older boys were standing in front of our 10, as if they were waiting for Rob to step outside.
My wife Bev opened the door and said with a smile, “Hi guys. Would you like some ice cream?” They looked at each other in11. But they were teenagers after all, so one of them said, “Sure. Why not?”
Bev quickly introduced herself, Rob's younger brothers and me. She even introduced Rusty, the12. “And I think you've already 13 Rob,” she said. Her idea was to help them to see that Rob was a person, not a target. He had a family and14 owned a family pet.
Bev15 the boys into chat while we ate ice cream. After a few minutes, she said, “I know there's been some trouble at the bus stop. I think there may be a misunderstanding.” They nodded that there had16 been trouble at the bus stop. She continued, “Maybe we can talk about the misunderstanding, so you can be friends.” We talked until the ice cream was finished. Finally the boys17.
Understanding is a18 task. It may be easier to control conflict by force than to find a way to19.
Force can calm a situation. But understanding leads to20.
Clara Daly was sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Then a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker: "Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?"
Clara, at the time, 1 the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the 2. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf," she said. The passenger seemed to want something, 3 he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn't understand what he needed.
Clara had been 4 ASL for the past year and knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's palm. So she untied her seat belt, walked 5 the front of the plane, and knelt by the seat of Tim Cook, then gently taking his 6, she signed, "How are you? Are you OK?" Cook asked for some water. When it 7, Clara returned to her seat. The flight attendant 8 again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third 9, she stopped and stayed for a while.
"He didn't need anything. He was 10 and wanted to talk," Clara said. So for the next hour, that's 11 they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had 12 become blind over time and 13 stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn't see her, she "looked attentively at his face with such 14," a passenger reported.
"Clara was 15, " a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. "You could tell Cook was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel. And Cook said it was the best trip he'd ever had."
How far would you go to make a good impression at a new job? A college student in Alabama walked 22 kilometers in the 1 to get to his new job.
Walter Carr's 2 broke down the night before starting a new job at Bellhops, a moving company. Although he tried several times, Carr 3 to find a ride. Knowing he could not afford to 4 the job, he decided to walk and 5 how long it would take to walk to the job in Pelham — 32 kilometers away. He left at midnight so that he could6it to the customer's house on time.
Carr had reportedly walked about 22 kilometers 7 the local police started to help the young man. After hearing his 8, they took him to breakfast. Then, they give him a 9 to the home of the customer Jenny Lamey, whom he was 10 to help move that morning, before the rest of the 11 arrived.
"I asked Carr if he wanted to go 12and rest until everyone else arrived," said Lamey in a Facebook post. “He 13 and said he could go ahead and get started." So, the family and Carr began 14 up the home, chatting along the way.
He told Lamey that he and his mother15 from New Orleans to Birmingham after losing their 16 in Hurricane Katrina, an extremely destructive and deadly one that 17the Gulf Coast of the U.S. in 2005.
"I just can't tell you how 18 I was by Carr and his journey. He is modest, kind, cheerful, hardworking and 19." Lamey shared the story of Carr on Facebook. It spread 20, moving many other all over the world.
That was a happy evening for the little Down syndrome (唐氏症) girl — a teenager the size of a ten-year-old. She and her family were 1 themselves at McDonald's. She made her way to the restroom. Her younger, but 2, brother sat quietly. He noticed something, which 3, she had not noticed.
Four teenagers had taken an interest in the little girl the moment they 4 her. They were openly laughing and pointing.
The brother 5 for his sister. He walked to the guys. They paled slightly and looked alarmed as this total stranger — a year or two their 6— placed his hands 7 on their table. They studied each other while he was clearly in their 8, and while they were most definitely out of their comfort zones. The brother 9 with one hand for one of them to move over. He 10 to sit right down next to them. Somewhat in 11, and thrown completely off-guard. They made space for him. "I was watching you making fun of my sister," he quietly 12 them. All four stumbled (磕磕绊绊) over their words in their rush. "Who? That was your sister? We weren't making fun of her! We 13 we would never 14 anyone. We just felt sorry for her.” But he told them again, "I watched you." They 15, knowing they had been caught red-handed and maybe even realizing their 16 and cruelness. Maybe they even sense the love this guardian had for his sister. The brother turned to his 17 and then he said 18 "I feel sorry for people like YOU!"
Then he walked away. When the sister went back to her seat, the four looked 19, making sure they looked absolutely anywhere 20 that little girl.
I was driving to a business appointment when I came to a very busy crossroad. The stop light had just turned red. Suddenly, an unforgettable 1caught my eye. A young couple, both blind, were 2 arm-in-arm across this busy crossroad with cars racing by in every direction. Each of them had a walking stick 3 , searching for clues to guide them.
Initially I was moved. They were trying to 4 what I felt was one of the most feared disability — blindness. It 5 be terrible to be blind. My thought was quickly interrupted by 6 when I saw that the couple was directly walking toward the middle of the crossroad. Without 7 the danger they were in, they were walking right into the path of oncoming cars. I was concerned because I didn't know 8 the other drivers understood what was happening.
As I watched from the front line of traffic, I saw a(n) 9 scene unfold before my eyes. Every car in every direction came to a(n) 10. I never heard the sharp sounds of brakes or noisy horn. 11 even yelled, "Get out of the way!" Everything 12. In that moment, time seemed to stand still for this family.
Amazed, I 13 the cars around me. I noticed that everyone's attention was fixed on the couple. 14 the driver to my right yelled, "To your right! To your right!" Other people 15 in union, shouting, "To your right!"
The couple 16 their own course and they made it to the other side of the road. 17 they arrived at the roadside, one thing impressed me — they were 18 arm-in-arm. I was taken aback by the 19 expressions on their faces and judged that they had no idea what was really 20 around them.
As I drove away, I did so with more awareness of life and care for others than ever before.
My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when government assistance was unheard of. The family of five struggled hard to1, which caused my father to be extremely mean with his money.
When we children—two older brothers and myself—asked him for spending money, his face turned cold, saying "If you are old enough to ask, you are old enough to2". So when the need3, we tried to seek jobs in the neighborhood or sell produce from the garden.
His attitude didn't soften as we grew into adulthood and went to jobs or college. Since none of us had a car, we had to ride the bus whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, father never4us, even in5weather. If someone6, he would say, "That's what your legs are for! "For me, the walk didn't bother me as much as the 7of walking alone along the highway and country roads. I also felt that my father didn't seem concerned about my safety. That feeling disappeared one spring evening.
It had been an extremely 8week at college. Tests and long hours in labs had left me9. I longed for home and a soft bed. As other students were met at their stops, I gazed10 out of the window. Finally, the bus stopped at my destination. I stepped off and walked home with my luggage.
A row of hedge edged the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. Once I turned off the highway and saw the hedge, I was always 11because it meant that I was almost home. On that particular evening, the hedge had just come into 12when I saw a(an)13moving toward the house along the top of the hedge. Upon closer 14, I realized it was my father. Then I knew each time I came home, he stood 15 the hedge, watching until he knew I had arrived safely. I swallowed hard against the tears. He did care, after all.
One evening, Catherine was at home as usual. As her 1swung between what she was going to do with her life and their dinner plans for the evening, she was unexpectedly2by an urgent call from her sister." Get over here! Turn on NBC and check these guys out. They are just like you…" One Facebook message and a phone interview later, Catherine3herself on a bus with 8 strangers in the middle of the sweltering desert heat of Utah, picking up trash and4awareness about zero-waste and climate change.
With a deep love of the environment and a desire to make a5, Catherine, Davey, and a group of self 6" environmental pick-up artists" went on a coast-to-coast road side trash pick-up. As they walked, sometimes only covering 0.9 miles in an entire day, they7and steadily made their way across the United States for three years, picking up a total of 201, 678 pounds of trash.
Catherine and Davey shared with us wonderful stories of hope and inspiration that 8 their efforts to continue their journey. After spending weeks silently 9how she would have enough money to fly home for their two-week spring break, Catherine found a blank, unidentified envelope10with $850 cash in the desert. Just enough to get her home and back. After their bus11outside of Denver, they unexpectedly got help and arrived in Yosemite National Park three weeks later, just in time for the" Yosemite Facelift" where12 from all over the state came together with a13of cleaning up trash all over the park.
Being at the right place at the right time became almost normal, and they realized that much of what they14was more than just a coincidence. Together, their team learned to simply15themselves to their task, and surrender to the journey.
A 22-year-old aircraft maintenance engineer living in Dubai, Zachariah was visiting the southwest India state of Kerala for a family wedding when a lockdown was declared. Store shelves were emptying, and hence Zachariah and his father 1 vegetables on their family's plot of land.
Using YouTube videos and techniques Zachariah's grandfather had 2 to his father 3 a guide, they began a garden that finally helped 4 20 neighboring households during the pandemic (流行病).
The tropical (热带的) climate of Kerala, he said, 5 plenty of rain and sun, making farming hands-off 6 it's time to harvest. That free style of farming is in line with Zachariah's growing 7 in sustainable agriculture, a movement that promotes working with nature instead of forcing the land to obey man's 8
What he didn't realize was that a 9 had been planted, one that would eventually lead him to 10 his career in engineering and consider one in farming. Soon after returning to Dubai, he's decided to 11 careers, from serving the skies to 12 the soil. " It's a big change for me. But this is what makes me 13 —helping others and being in nature. "
The time they've spent together has also helped bring Zachariah and his father 14 . "We started bonding and I think that's why I 15 gardening, " Zachariah said.
Just like everyone, I have experienced ups and downs in my life. I am an aerospace engineer from India. I was told by my relatives, close friends and others that it was1for a non-IT student to pursue a master's degree in IT and graduate from a US university.
I had never taken courses 2 to computers or programming. I was never interested in being a 3, but things changed. Computers became my companion and I 4 how dependent on them I was. I 5 imagining the back end processes happening inside the CPU and they amazed me. That's why I 6 to pursue a master's degree in IT.
At first, it was way too 7 . Coming from a middle-class family, the huge cost per credit was a big8. My English accent was terrible. Most 9 , the course seemed impossible at first. But I never 10.
I got a few offers, but I decided to choose my university 11 it promised its students to help them learn practically. During my first month, it was difficult to understand the Americans' 12 and finish my assignments. But I never gave up. I walked two miles to the 13 every day so that I could use my travel money to buy a meal. I started looking for 14 and I got an offer to work as a student assistant, which meant lifting benches and chairs every day.
I took it as a(n) 15 , and I believed that hard work was my strength. Right now I am graduating with a GPA of 3. 96/4 and a job offer from a multinational company that has asked me to start right after 16 .
If you think you can never achieve something, you need to 17 yourself and start working on your 18 . Hard work always pays off. To be 19, you need to start from somewhere and always question yourself about the limits of how far you would go to 20 your goals.
Recently, our school held an activity called "Us After Ten Years", where the speakers presented what they would become in the future. At first, I didn't care about the1, but just four days before the ceremony, my head teacher asked me to2one student who got ill. There were three barriers during my 3. Firstly, I didn't have a clear career path at that time. Luckily, my classmates 4 that I choose to be a diplomat, who is eloquent (善辩的), 5, and enjoys critical thinking, like me. Secondly, I had to choose a representative scene to show my career. My first 6 was to hold a press conference. However, that would have taken 7 than the scheduled time. Ultimately, I decided to give a speech to the current students about my job. Finally, I had to decide the presentation 8. During my first two practices, I tried to 9 the present Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesmen. But I couldn't find myself like them when speaking. I told myself: "You are 10so be yourself and create your own style. "
Then came my time. I took a deep breath and walked 11 onto the stage, 12 to my audience. The bright lights and screams from the auditorium suddenly surrounded me tightly. Fortunately, everything went as expected. When the last speech concluded, the heavy burden suddenly13 into a whole sense of relief, then a sense of pride.
I'm proud that I have 14 the mental barriers. I'm also proud of Chinese diplomats, who meet all kinds of questions and 15. but manage to keep showing Chinese wisdom. That's the kind of person I want to be.
