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Adversity and Prosperity
 People tend to complain, "Why am I not a president but a most ordinary clerk?" "Why am I not a millionaire who doesnt have to

work desperately with such a poor salary?" or "Why cant I invent something to change peoples life and carve a place or myself in history?" The answer is somewhat simple: their ives are going too smooth. In other words, they have never ndergone the true adversity which prosperity often has its roots in.
   Adversity often leads to prosperity. Painful and difficult as it is, adversity requires courage to face, great courage that not all people have. Thus, when confronted by adversity, some people sink and others overcome it with constant painstaking struggle. The latter will henceforth have intense passion to achieve their goals and tremendous determination to overwhelm any difficulties on their way to the destination, for they believe the worst has gone by. Jiacheng Lee, who is said to be the wealthiest person in China, had suffered a lot before he made his fortune. Born in a small family, he had to earn a living to support his family without finishing his junior school study. He peddled near a plastic factory, selling plastic flowers he himself made. Gradually his hard work enabled him to save up enough money to run a real business. From then on, he often defeated his opponents by investing riskily in some huge projects, which rewarded him with considerable profits. When asked about reasons for such tour age, Jiacheng Lee said laconically, "If I had failed, I would have at least gone back to be a peddler again. I would lose nothing."It is obvious that his success grows from the fertile soil of adversity of his early years.
   On the contrary, those who havent experienced the adversity are to some extent content with the present life, and they arent determined to break up these pleasant days to venture into some unknown field. Therefore, they mostly couldnt bring their potential into full play. But it doesnt mean that none of the people living in happiness can succeed. Bill Gates, another millionaire, has a much more fortunate experience though. But besides his ability and his sharp eye for chances, another factor also explains his success a sense of threatened. He knows clearly that he will be eliminated in the fierce competition if he slows down his pace of innovation. This threat makes him think as in adversity at least not in a pleasant resting place. His story also shows that prosperity and adversity, in a sense, are inter wined.
   In adversity, while pessimists think there comes the end of the world and lose all hope, optimists remain cheerful. They will never be blinded by their pain, they know hope is there within,they keep struggling, and at last they will reach prosperity.

 

I Prefer Friends of a Mind
   One whole semester has passed since my friends and I packed up our own packages and headed for different dreams last summer. Now summer has come the same way as its always been, with the same tormenting examination but we, a group of friends who shared

the same experiences, interests, joys and pains, are no longer the same. Never will I forget those good old days the crowds of guys

rushing to the snack bar, devouring the delicacies while all crying to pay; their touching smile in the glow of the setting sun when we

took our routine walk; the whisper and snicker of us when talking about the girls in our class but I am not so desperately longing to

meet them as months ago, simply because we all have CHANGED. No longer can I find the once familiar topics, behavior, hobbies

and everything in my memory about them, so no longer can I find my once dear friends.
Friends are more than several passionate souls staying close,doing things jointly and sharing common viewpoints. They must be

genuine and unselfish towards each other.

Can we be genuine and faithful to friends who are not like us? I dont think so. I dont know what to talk about with them. When we start a conversation, which is destined to be a painful one, we all have to disguise our true selves as seemingly similar ones, so as to carry on with the topic that interests none of us. One or two conversations like this are acceptable, but no,Perhaps, some people prefer friends who are sharply different from themselves to feel different attitudes towards life. But I am not the kind of person who would feel at ease with anyone or who could not wait a minute to inform others what he did just a second ago. I dream of friends who can share their lives with me and talk with me about the true meanings of life. I dream of friendships where no uneasiness ever exists, no betrayal ever happens.
   Making friends, in some sense, resembles enjoying music. I never choose bright music whenever I am blue, because the sentimental melody soothes my tense nerve and assures me that I am understood and cared and not alone in this toughest time, and because I will feel strengthened when someone can grieve at my grief.