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标题: 【每日英语故事9月3日】——成功的人生不设限 [打印本页]

作者: jane019    时间: 2012-9-3 14:25     标题: 【每日英语故事9月3日】——成功的人生不设限

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him walk .

The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn't know.

In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others - perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.


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作者: kobe    时间: 2012-9-3 20:10

He just did it.
so we...
作者: ji7411    时间: 2012-9-12 12:02

what
作者: sophia_feifei    时间: 2012-9-12 12:10

The encouragement and love of the parents are important to children~

The spirit of never giving up is worth learning~

作者: 郭怀亮    时间: 2012-9-25 15:35

回复 1# jane019
作者: syban    时间: 2012-10-25 22:02

回复 1# jane019


    Everyone should believe in yourself,you can do it.
作者: tiansw666    时间: 2012-12-2 14:29

感谢论坛
作者: larryken    时间: 2012-12-27 11:14

回复 1# jane019


    it's better not to know somthing bad than to know that. For that if you know that, the obstacle in the heart probably upset and stop u go ahead.
作者: chenxihe    时间: 2012-12-27 13:00

good
作者: vvvc    时间: 2014-4-15 13:23

天空
作者: newking761    时间: 2014-5-5 23:16

Everyone should believe in yourself,you can do it.
作者: aspire    时间: 2014-5-13 23:27

But I know everything about myself ,it's harder for me to make it .
作者: traveller_tr    时间: 2014-5-15 21:39

i just wanted to have a look at the hidden part.
作者: jswat03403    时间: 2014-11-12 23:21

GOOD
作者: candy柴    时间: 2015-1-15 12:53

thx




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