Archive for May, 2008

Vicki Huffman, in Plus Living, tells about a little bulldog who makes a surprise by persisting.

The story is: A man, who loved hunting, bought two pedigreed setters which he was about to train to be fine bird dogs. One morning, he saw a little bulldog who saw the two dogs and squeezed under the fence in order to fight with them. However, the bulldog soon had enough and got away. But to his surprise, from that dog on, the bulldog came to his backyard at the same time every day and fight with his Setters. He never missed a day! And at last, when the two Setters simply heard the bulldog snorting down the alley, they started whining and ran down into the basement. Then the little bulldog strutted around the backyard as if he owned it.

How do you like this story, do you only think that it is fun or have ant other thoughts? Anyway, it makes me think a lot ,such as life study, social relationship, and so on.

It is undoubted that everyone hopes to be successful. However, it doesn’t mean that you will still persist on your dream when you have all kinds of difficulties. In fact, most people choose to give up their dreams or reduce their goals. So, if you can insist on your goals and take them in practice, you will succeed at last.

All mentioned above tell us that most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seems to be no hope at all.

What are you doing when you were 18? Maybe you were studying hard for the college entrance examination. Maybe you were engaging in the computer games. Maybe you were living the colorful college life.

However, in a small town in Michigan called Hillsdale, a senior student who was just 18 won the city elections and became the youngest mayor in the city. Maybe some of you think it is strange and can’t accept it immediately, as a matter of fact, Michael couldn’t believe it when he heard the result firstly. But, if you know about what Michael had done for the election I think it will become reasonable for you.

Yeah, it seemed that there was no way a student would beat an adult who in fact the former Mayer. Any way, Michael stuck to his determination without any suspicion and tried his best to make it become reality. He created signs and flyers with the money he had saved from his summer job, and posted them all over the town. What’s more, he took some speeches and even knocked on doors every day after school to introduce himself .

From Michael’s experience, I think we should expend our horizon eyesight and care some other things beyond studying. Moreover, we should be confident for ourselves if we have made up our minds for one thing and stick to it. After all, nothing is impossible.

Today, when I opened the English Salon as usual, I was greatly attracted by the first paragraph of the leadership which was: The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything.

These words astonished me deeply. They even changed my usual opinion about success and happiness. Before today, I firmly believed that if some could have everything he wanted, he would be the happiest people. But in this article, the author convinced me that happiness was actually a kind of feeling and attitude. And you wouldn’t be really happy if you always took a situation or yourself too seriously. So, we should calmly and correctly deal with the relationship between paying out and being paid back.

Although there is close connection between paying out and being paid back, there is not a theorem which shows that we should receive something we wanted if we have worked hard on it. What’s more, as most persons know, there is large distance between dream and reality. Thus, no matter how seriously we want to gain something or we have completely prepared for one thing, they are not the reasons that we should success in doing something.

According to the reasons above, we should always remember that anything is possible until the result appears. And we should be active and hopeful all the way. No matter what has happened, don’t give up but go on and go on…