Once President Roosevelt's house was broken into and lots of things were stolen.
Hearing this, one of Roosevelt's friends wrote to him and advised him
not to take it to his heart so much.
President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying,”Dear friend,
thank you for your letter to comfort me. I’m all right now.
I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons:
firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all;
secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things;
thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief…”
It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from.. However, President Roosevelt
had such three reasons to be so grateful. This story tells us how we can learn to
be grateful in our life.
Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a GREat wisdom.
. It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful
all the time so long as he lives in the world. smile and so will it
when you cry to it. ” If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.
We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously
and to try to deal with it. If so, should we complain about our
life and become frustrated and disappointed ever since then or should we
be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall? William Thackeray,
a famous British writer, said, “Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it , it will also
If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end.
When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful,
but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.
I think we should even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky.
Only by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail.
We can also get relief and warmth when we are unlucky.
This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face,
and receive great impetus to move on.
We should treat our frustration and misfortune
in our life in the other way just as President
Roosevelt did. We should be grateful all the time and keep having a
healthy attitude to our life forever, keep having perfect characters
and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind of comfort,
not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like
Ah Q. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.
I look at spiders and butter-flies . I watch caterpillars and moths .
Sometimes I think I'm the only one who notices these things .
But if it hadn't been for a crowded cafeteria , I wouldn't Have ever noticed Valeri .
After all , I wasn't looking for new friends .
Valeri was a new student . She walked to class with her books huddled against her
chest and her head down . He talked only when the teacher asked her a question .
After a month at our school , she hadn't made any friend . At recess , she sat on a
bench and read . If you asked who she was , you'd get a response like this ,
"She's in my PE class , I can't remenber her name ."
One day at lunch , I had nowhere to sit . Most tables were full , my friends
scattered among them . But Valeri sat alone , book in hand , I walked over to her .
"May I sit here ?"I asked .
The cafeteria was noisy , but silence hung between us . Valeri didn't seem to mind ,
but it drove me crazy . I searched my mind for things to say .
"So,"I said , "is that a good book?"Valeri gave a small nod and went back to reading .
"What's it about?"I asked , after several more agonizing seconds of silence .
She looked at me , her eyes sparkling .
"So,"I said , "is that a good book?"Valeri gave a small nod and went back to reading .
"What's it about?"I asked , after several more agonizing seconds of silence .
She looked at me , her eyes sparkling .