My car and my best friend
For most, getting your first car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Getting a car did 1 this for me, and it also brought my best friend and me 2. But then it tore us apart (分开).
My best friend lives three minutes from my 3. Since her 4 is in late summer, seven months behind mine, I basically became her 5 when I turned 16 in December.
And so I 6 her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream 7, went shopping and to the movies all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so 8 that she gave me a key 9 her house.
A week after I got my license (驾照), she was with me 10 I had my first accident. She was there and 11 me and we kept it a 12, since I didn't want people to 13. From then on, through thick and thin (共患难), it was just me , my car and my best friend.
High school is a time of 14, but I couldn't 15for a long time 16we became so distant (疏远) after being so close. My friend waited three months after her birthday to get her dream car：a green 2004 Beetle. With its 17, the passenger seat of my car became 18. Our car trips became less frequent (频繁的) 19 I didn't even drive down her street.
It's funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I 20it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn't be the same.
Until I was 13, I assumed I was just like everyone else. But one day I read a piece of paper in my dad's briefcase that 1 everything. That's when I saw the words: “Simone is said to have Asperger syndrome.”
I screamed at my dad, “Tell me what it is!” He 2 that I have a mild form of brain disorders, which was a problem that shapes the way I interact with other people. I wasn't sure exactly what he 3, but it didn't matter. I just wanted to try to 4 my shock and go back to the way things were before I knew.
But even though I wouldn't 5 acknowledge the news, Asperger's still destroyed my confidence and made me6 and isolated. I felt like an outcast(被抛弃者)—not just because Asperger's made it hard for me to make friends, but because now I had this 7 . I just wanted to be like everyone else. 8, at 16, I said to myself, “Enough! You can't run and hide from it, girl. Just face it.”
It's funny, the first time I thought something was 9 was not because of what I couldn't do — it was because of what i could do. In the sixth grade, while other kids were 10 with spelling, I was like a human spell-checker! I've also had a photographic memory, and 11 I call my “super powers”—extrasensory hearing and acute awareness: I can 12 phone numbers people dial just by the sound the buttons make when pressed or 13 hear one sour note in an entire symphony! And I can 14 pay attention to two things at once.
Don't get me wrong. Asperger's can be very confusing. For years I felt like a butterfly 15 in its cocoon(茧), waiting to emerge. It took years of work with a psychologist to 16 the difficulty of making friends.
I'm not going to let Asperger's create 17 for me. That' why I am happy to have found out about and faced my 18. Asperger's is a metaphor(象征) for life: We all have 19 , but the key is to be able to have the20 to face what's bad about them and still find what's good.
"We expected our first child to be perfect." Most parents have thought so.
I know that's what I 1with our oldest son, Joe. He would be perfect. Joe would sail through school from learning ABCs to being awarded a Ph.D..
Joe, however, had other ideas.
He was always a 2kid. He wasn't the kind of boy who threw3 at passing cars on a freezing winter day or who 4 water balloons on the mailman during the heat of August. 5 he wasn't perfect. Especially when it came to that nice little 6 that I had about sailing through school. From the day Joe started kindergarten he struggled with scissors and handwriting and math. Always math. He passed each grade with great effort,7 at the top of his class.
How I 8friends who had children with the "math gene". A mom told me her daughter was doing high school algebra(代数) 9 in the sixth grade. Another mom said her son had just taken first place in the district's annual Math Challenge.
After hearing these stories, I would look at Joe and wonder: Why didn't we 10a mathematical talent? How is he ever going to get into college if he does not get 11 at math? Needless to say, my motherly worry never really amounted to much. Does it ever? Moms tend to worry and worry, while whatever they're worrying about usually disappears 12.
During high school, Joe slowly improved at math. He 13 algebra I & II, and geometry, our state requirements for math. I felt greatly14 at his little achievement. Then he announced that he' d take pre-calculus (微积分) in his last year of high school, 15 surprised me a lot.
"Why?" I questioned.
"Because I need to keep my skills up," he explained." I 16 math, but I need to take it so I don't forget how to do it."
"For college," he added. "I want to do 17 well in college, Mom. I know it will be hard, but I think it's 18 that I try to do my best."
My oldest son wasn't perfect. He wasn't a math talent, either. But he knew what was important: he was focusing on his future while I was worrying over his 19. And that, to me, is even better than being 20.
My wife and I moved to the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee in November, from New York to a very rural area. While moving we had the 1 of our adult daughter.
During the2 days of moving into our new home, we3 in the local community a lot . One evening we decided to have a meal at a buffet style restaurant. It had been a long day of 4 boxes and furniture, and the next day would see us on the long drive back to our former home for another 5 , a thousand mile long trip. We were all6. But the buffet was great, and we7 our meal feeling rested and relaxed.
When I went to pay our bill, 8 in hand, the waitress cashier told me that they didn't 9 credit cards. Being from the big city, it was 10to use a credit card. Oops!
I had no 11 in my pocket, but about 10 miles back down the road I'd seen a bank with an ATM. I told the lady that I would 12 my family there and return in a few minutes to pay for our meals. “ Oh, you 13 do that,” she told me. “ You just come back 14 time and pay us then.” WHAT? I looked at her in 15. These people had 16 seen me before, did not know if I would ever return, yet they 17 me to return to pay for three adult meals? This is not something that I had ever experienced in the big 18, that's for sure.
We have lived there for almost six years, and every single week I see other acts of trust like this happening. It may be a “country” thing, or just 19 Southern hospitality. Whatever it is, I certainly like it, and I pass on this 20 every chance I get.
One afternoon，as I was driving back home, I stopped at a busy intersection as the traffic light turned red. I waited 1 for the light to turn green，so that I could 2 my journey.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, an old woman 3 and started asking for 4. That day, I had unknowingly 5 off the air conditioner in the car and my window was down. The old woman was standing very close to my car. As she begged for alms(施舍物), I closely 6 her weather-beaten face, which had lots of wrinkles on it. Her eyes 7 lots of sadness and her whole body was 8. I sensed that this elderly lady had 9 some incredibly hard times in her life and at this time there was no one to look after her, 10 forced her to beg on the streets.
Seeing her condition, I immediately felt from 11 my being a huge surge (汹涌)of 12 for her. It was coming deep from within my heart. I normally gave loose 13 to beggars, however, that day my inner self strongly 14 me that I give her something substantial(大量的)so that she 15 have a decent meal.
Without any 16 I took out a substantial amount from my wallet and 17 it in her hand. Her weather-beaten face lit up with a toothless smile and she 18 me and went on her way. In the 19 the traffic light had turned green, and it was time to move on.
As I drove back home I felt within myself a sense of joy and 20 surging through me because I was able to do something for at least one person on this planet.
I am a 17-year-old college student. Something I came across today touched me, so I decided to 1 it.
After a long and boring morning at college, I was 2 at the bus station for my bus. While standing there, I was thinking about how 3 the week had been when this gentleman came and stood next to me. After a while he 4 talking to me, mainly about the buses and bus drivers. He had 5noticed that I was feeling down, as he told me to cheer up and told a 6. This then turned into a casual 7 as we waited for the bus, which was late 8
He introduced himself to me and told me it was 9to meet me. Then the bus finally 10 We both got on the bus, and he sat in front of me, and we 11 talking. At this point all my 12 thoughts about the week were starting to 13. He asked me what I was doing at college, and what I was planning to do 14 I graduated. He wished me luck and told me he had his fingers crossed for me.
He then 15 me a piece of paper, with “Ten ideas for kindness” on it and a link to a website. When I got off the bus, he told me that it was a 16 to meet me and he wished me good luck.
I don't 17if this very caring man will ever read this article,18I want to say that he is the only person who had talked with me 19 for a while, and noticed that I needed cheering up. He made me 20 that life really is worth living.
When I was growing up, I didn't remember hearing the words “I love you” from my father. When your father1 says these words to you when you are a (n)2it gets tougher and tougher for him to say these words as he gets 3To tell the truth, I could not honestly remember 4 I had last said those words to him either. I decided to 5my ego (自尊心) aside and make the first move. After 6in our next phone conversation I blurted out (突然说出) the words, “Dad... I love you!”
There was a 7at the other end and he awkwardly (笨拙地) replied, “Well, same back to you!”
I smiled and said, “Dad, I know you 8 me, and when you are ready, I know you9 say what you want, to say.”
Fifteen minutes later my 10 called and nervously asked, “Paul11 is okay?” I explained to her perfectly.
A weeks later, Dad 12 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this13and the tears were rolling down my cheeks as I finally “14” the love. As I sat there in tears, I 15 that this special moment had taken our father-son 16 to a new level.
A short while after this 17 moment, my father narrowly18 death following heart operation. I have often thought 19 I did not take the first step and Dad did not 20 the operation, I would have never “heard” the love.
The first week is always a bit hard in my writing classes. I'm unfamiliar 1the students, most of them trying to 2 themselves to their new environment. When Jennifer 3 me with a question on the second day, I was 4for the chance to connect at least one name with a face.
Her writing wasn't perfect,5 her effort was. She worked hard and pushed herself to achieve. She was excited to 6, which made me enjoy teaching her. I didn't 7 then how much she would also teach me. One Friday afternoon, Jennifer stopped by after class. She wasn't asking a question 8a paper I'd returned. 9, she said quietly: “I didn't attend classes yesterday. I was at the health center the whole day.” I gave her a sideways look, 10. “It was just a virus (病毒). I'm fine now,” she11me. Then she was gone.
Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be12 a few classes. She had been in hospital with meningitis (脑膜炎). I heard from him again a few days later, and again after that. Her condition grew 13. We made trips to the hospital room. I was14frightened when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who, only ten days earlier, had displayed life and warmth in my classroom.
A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to15. “I'll be back to school one day,” she said. “I have no16that you'll be with us.” I told her,17tears. I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: “school 18everything to Jenny.”
Then five weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Jenny in her seat,19. She 20all of her missed homework, completed with thought and excellence. The strength of her will to overcome shone out of her pale, weak, eighteen-year-old face.
During my second year in high school, I got sick and missed a few days. When I1, I was greeted with two essays due, three days of math and history homework, plus several tests2I went home from school that day exhausted, I had to stay up really late to finish them all.
The next day at school, I got a rude awakening: I'd totally forgotten to prepare for the 3on Romeo and Juliet, which I' d take4my lunch hour! Worse still, I had 5the in-class discussion and all the notes. When lunch came, I went to the English room to face my certain doom(厄运). All I could do was try to 6on the questions I didn't know.
As it turned out, I didn't know the majority of the questions. I was just about to give7when my pencil accidentally fell and broke. Standing by the blackboard sharpening my pencil, I 8down and there in full view lay the answer sheet for the test! What good fortune! I can kiss good-bye to all my9of failing the test! My heart started beating, and my brain 10. Yes! Read over the answers-quickly! This was quickly followed by another voice, No! You'll get caught! My mind turning back and forth, Yes! No! Yes! No! This went on for ten of the11seconds in my entire life.
Finally, I decided to finish the test on my own, without 12! I was satisfied with my decision but pretty 13I had failed the test.
The next day when I walked into the English room, my great joy of having been an 14soul changed into a wave of doom as I saw my test paper lying face down on my desk. I knew what awaited me. I stared at it a few seconds before I got up the15to turn it over.
You can only imagine my 16when I feared that I had passed the test! I have never in my whole life been so happy to see my17, a C.
My mom says the victories that18the most courage are won within. Now I know 19what she means Now not only can my conscience(良心)rest easy, but I don't have to worry about getting caught and meeting a sad20 like Romeo and Juliet.
I believe we can create our own happiness. I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans.
I was sitting in my1at a stoplight listening to the radio, thinking how happy and warm I was in it. It was2outside, and I thought, "Life is good."
Now, this was a long line.As I3, I noticed two people huddled（挤在一起） together at the bus stop. The couple seemed to be doing their best to keep4To my eyes, they were unhappy and uncomfortable. They looked5.Their coats looked like they came from a bargain store.
But then I saw their6Yes, they were huddling, but they were also laughing. They seemed to be sharing a good7, and suddenly, instead of pitying them, I envied them. I thought, "Huh, what's so funny?" They didn't notice the wind. They weren't looking at my car thinking, "I8I had that."
You know9a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had10things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the11to make moments of12happen.
Now, maybe that's easy for me to say. I feel lucky to have a house with a roof and a wife who13me. I felt this14even when I was working at Long John Silver's. In the beginning, it didn't seem like a promising job. But15I had a job.And frankly, it was16.After two weeks, I knew all I needed to know, and it freed my mind. The job allowed me to17about what my life could become.
The first year I worked there, we got robbed. I thought I was going to die.But everything18out all right. A lot of people19life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn't.
I believe this is20all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of luck. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
"How could she treat me like that?" said the voice in my head, over and over. It was 2011 and I felt deeply 1 due to my divorce (离婚).
One day I walked into the office, and my computer screen showed me the following 2.
"Your password has expired(期满). 3 'Change password' to change your password." At my 4, the Microsoft Exchange Server is 5 to ask thousands of employees to change their passwords every 30 days.
It is an 6 job: The server (服务器) forces us to use at least one capital letter, at least one small letter, at least one 7 and at least one number. 8 the password can't be less than 8 characters.
I was late that morning and I had a lot of work to 9. Changing a password was going to be a huge waste of time. Suddenly I remembered a 10 from my boss: use a password to change your life. I 11 to try it out. I shouldn't let myself be a victim of my recent break-up. So my password became: Forgive@h3r. I had to 12 this statement several times in the following days, my 13 improved drastically. That simple action did help me walk out of the 14 emotion.
One month later, my server asked me again to 15 my password. I thought about the next thing I had to get done. My password became: Quit@smoking4ever. And 16 what happened. I 17 smoking overnight. One month later, my password became: Save4trip@thailand... Guess where I went 3 months later. I travelled to Thailand with 18.
Dear friend, why not have a try? 19 you try it with the positive attitude, maybe it could help to change your life 20 the better, too.
When my daughter was very young, she broke my favorite cup. She was moving it aside, and it slipped from her hand and broke on the floor. I loved that cup and was really1 , but of course I didn't2her. It was an accident. She didn't mean to3 it. Intentions matter. Or do they?
I can't help but feel that our modern world doesn't 4 intentions. We are all so ready to find 5 with another person and so concerned with our own6 that we don’t consider the intentions of others. There are endless opportunities to be 7 these days in the celebrity news cycle, in politics and in our own interpersonal interactions. Every single day, someone is 8 on social media for something they have said or done.
A friend of mine says, "It's not how the message is intended it's how it's9". He means that we need to be careful when considering our words because they can10be misinterpreted by the person we are11
We all at times express ourselves 12 , make errors of13or have a moment of14when we say the wrong thing. All of us have 15 someone at some point in our lives.
The Internet is full of people seeking to make things worse. But there are also many nice people who occasionally get things 16 or simply do not know better.
I get that there is much to be angry about. The world is full of17. The actions and words of other people can cause harm;18, the actions and words of other people matter. But intention has to mailer, too, for us to make sense of the world and for us to effect change. 19 intentions can help us to feel better about our fellow humans. When we appreciate intention, it can help to ease the20of their message.
When I was a little girl, I spent memorable (难忘的) school holidays with my grandmother. She was a farmer. Early in the morning, she set out to the farm. I would run 1 alongside trying to keep up. On our way, my grandmother would 2 everyone we met in the village.
These were 3 greetings: "Did you sleep well? Are the grandchildren in good health? And what about their parents?" If she passed the same person on our return later, she would greet again.
The people my grandmother greeted would 4 similarly, "I see your granddaughter with you today. How is her father?" As a 5 girl, I found these greeting habits 6 time-consuming (耗时的). But I now realize that the greetings strengthened (加强) the 7 that get the people closer in my grandmother's village. They also strengthened a sense of 8.
I believe in the gift of a deliberate greeting. I believe it is more than mere good 9. It is like 10 the pause button among the noise of our daily lives, as we 11 from home to work, from one meeting to another, to 12 and drop off children. It is stopping to 13 the person in front of you as if to simply say, "I see you."
My grandmother 14 me that there is always time to greet someone before getting down to business. I believe you can take a few extra seconds to make a greeting to a person. I believe we can enrich our society when we acknowledge (确认) the 15 of another.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are1 in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experienced ill fortune. I placed 2in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to3 me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research. Over the years I interviewed them, watched their lives and had them4various experiments.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether their differences in5 was due to differences in their ability to6opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to 7 it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had 8placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying… "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win$50."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to 9 it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Unlucky people are generally more10 than lucky people, and this anxiety affects their ability to notice the 11. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to gatherings focused on finding their perfect partner and miss opportunities to make good friends. They read newspapers 12 to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.
Lucky people are more13and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually showed that lucky people create good fortune via four14. They are skilled at creating and 15opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition(直觉），create self-fulfilling prophesies(预言) via positive expectations, and adopt a "never say die" attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
This morning, when I shaved in the mirror. I found my body was growing older. There was no doubt about it. My 1 which used to be brown with a touch of gray was now gray with a touch of brown. There was even so 2 hair left on the top of the head. My forehead wrinkles appeared when I smiled I thought about letting my 3 grow for a second but I didn't really want to look like Father Christmas.
When I stepped back. I could see I had become 4 as well. It's because while my metabolism (新陈代谢)had 5 ，my eating hadn't. My muscles were painful and my body was also 6 , However, the work must go on. 7 was my deepest love. An article in my 8 seemed to be formed I was thinking of writing the words down in case I would 9 them when I came into my study. When I looked in the mirror again. I 10 and felt a joy in my heart. I thought that no matter how old I looked my soul was forever 11. The truth is while I have been gradually growing older on the outside, I have been for a while. growing younger on the inside. I can remember how serious, 12 and worried I was in my twenties and thirties. I often felt the burden of life was 13 heavy. But now at fifty, my heart feels 14 and my days look brighter. 1 have more faith and less fear. In the end. all of our bodies will 15 and die. but our soul won't.
My daughter loved dance, until she didn't. After an1first year, I noticed her interest fading week by week. Then, one day, she slowly walked to me before class and asked if she could just 2 it.
My first reaction was to 3 her to "finish what you start".4, sticking with something difficult can teach perseverance (毅力), discipline and confidence. But watching my first-grader 5herself into each ballet position, I started to question how much6that "blanket advice" made. Is it really in my kid's best 7, or even practical, to make her stick to every commitment through until she reaches a bitter8? What if there are different but 9 valuable qualities, which can be gained by 10 the things that are not right for her?
With the winter show approaching, I realized she needed to either 11 her class or commit herself to it. After a few days' consideration, she 12 dance wasn't for her — a choice I 13. Quitting is never a black-and-white issue. Sometimes, it means 14 a barrier in your way to love something else. In my daughter's case, ending dance made space for her new hobbies, such as horseback riding and Girl Scouts. She's into them for now, but it is okay if that 15 changes.
As adults, we are accustomed to16the power of saying yes, but what about saying no? The ability to recognize when something isn't an 17investment of our time or energy is also important. As my daughter gets older, I want her to feel confident to 18 something that's no longer meeting her needs. She shouldn't be held back by the thought that she must 19 something at any cost 20 because she has started.
As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped and1 that some large creatures were being held by only a small rope2 to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was3 that the elephants could, at anytime 4 their ropes. For some reason, 5 ， they did not .
He saw a trainer nearby, and asked why these animals just stood there and made no6 to get away. "Well," the trainer said, "when they are very young and much smaller, we use the same7 rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to8 them. As they grow up, they are9 to believing they cannot break away. They believe the rope and still hold them, so they never try to break free.
The man was10. These animals could at any time break free from their11 but because they believe they couldn't, they were12 right where they are.
Like the elephants, how many of us13 hanging onto a(n) 14 that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the15 in life.
Years ago, I had a quarrel with a friend owing to a misunderstanding. It was. 1my fault, but I was afraid to admit that I was wrong, so we didn't speak for a long time. Several years later we came across each other and decided to meet for lunch. It was so2that we kept meeting. After two or three meals together, I felt3to apologize for my behavior years earlier.
My experience is never unique. Many people4apologizing because the idea of admitting to wrong behavior makes them5uncomfortable. Apologies force us to admit to ourselves that we don't always6our own standards. We might also fear that the victim won't 7our apology. We all like to8ourselves as good people—as kind, honest and considerate. For these9, an apology can be very difficult to give.
Given my10, there is no doubt that an apology is a vital tool for11a relationship to make it functional again. Usually, a(n) 12apology is called for, but if the victim is angry at the wrong behavior, it may be more13to wait, because their14may prevent them from accepting our apologies. Also a delay15an apology's effectiveness because it conveys that the offender has time to reflect on his/ her16. But a heartfelt apology has more powerful effects, which can improve our mental health and repair our17 personal relationships. 18, expressing regret and acknowledging responsibility are equally vital. Without 19, it's a good reason of your actions; without responsibility, it's an excuse.
My friend and I had lunch recently, 15 years after my belated apology. Admitting that everything had been my fault helped us heal our relationship. We're both20to have our friendship today.
Detective Ashley Jones works at a police department in England. He has recently made a significant 1loneliness is a serious social problem that can contribute to depression and even crimes, but it can be2in a clever way. The3? Chat benches.
Jones got the idea after he had talked with an elderly lady who had been cheated of her 4. The lady would get a call from a stranger every morning who5made her believe that he was her friend, and then she lent him about "￡ 31,000 . Jones was6when she said that she didn't actually7being cheated. "Otherwise, I would never speak to another person for weeks on end," she said.
This led Jones to the conclusion that there are too many extremely8people in his community, who are easy targets of cheating. So he9to do something about it. He10he police department to allow him to11a couple of "chat benches" in two of their local parks. Then he hung a colorful sign on each of the benches that12: "HAPPY TO CHAT." Just a few days after the signs went up, he found people sitting there and engaging in active and13conversations.
The idea is catching on14. There are now over 40 chat benches throughout England. More new chat benches have sprung up across the UK and beyond. All who participated have gained a(n)15outcome from getting involved. Jones' idea has been fully16the "HAPPY TO CHAT" benches help17the invisible social barrier that keeps people from saying hello.
This effort is not just a(n)18at being community minded it's also a 19measure. It prevents people who are cut off from society falling victim to cheaters.
The Chat Bench is a fantastic new project that20those of all ages to interact and get to know each other in the future.
When I was informed to report the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games(冬季残奥会), I really felt1. Having a very close friend with paralysis and seeing the challenges he faces each day, I am2by his perseverance(毅力). His spirit 3me. I knew attending the Paralympics would also move me. And it did, which I'll4later.
A month before entering the closed Games, we were required to complete hotel quarantine(隔离)5returning to the public. With so many people6into Beijing from other countries, there had been positive(阳性) COVID-197. Three days after the Paralympics began, a positive case was found in my hotel.8, there must be 7 days' or 14 days' quarantine.
9I wasn't pleased with the idea, it didn't10my excitement to attend the Winter Paralympics. I thought, the11thing to do is to start preparing immediately. Being limited to a small space for the time can have12effects on one's mental health. I began to think of what makes me feel comfortable in my home. I began to make a13of things: delicious food, sweet soaps, my bedding….
People might dislike the14of quarantining outside their homes. But if you can prepare yourself with the things you know, it will make you most15. If you think you have more than many others, you'll find it's not as bad as it might seem.
