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「Life is a sum of all your choices.」
--Albert Camus Quotes (French novelist, essayist and playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize winner in literature)
Choices, like the air, are everywhere around us. It is like grass chooses the ground so that its vitality can emerge; it is for that reason that birds choose the blue sky where they are able to outstretch their wings and soar to the great height; it is insomuch as fish choose the ocean where they are capable of swimming for a long distance.
It is true that it is unswerving choices that make life colorful. Some choices in life are crucial, which will be the milestones in your life.
I can well remember when I was a child aged 10, I was still unable to swim while others of the same age swam very well though I had been taught for many times. I was rather afraid of water at that time. On some occasions, my parents sighed disappointedly. I said to them, 「I have no interest in swimming!」
In fact, I just wanted to hide my shame. One night on bed, I burst into tears, thinking of all the frustration I came across in the course of learning swimming. 「Why can’t I make it?」 「I must learn to swim!」
With this attic faith, later, I chose to face the challenge and eventually dared to swim in the deep water. Not only was I able to swim, I also gained a treasure: Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of America, once said」 Let me express my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance」 when running for electoral office.
As this saying goes, only when we choose to face fear with great courage, can we defeat the reverses in our life.
You see, friends, life is full of ups and downs; we are bound to meet with problems and go through tough times. But those who respond to and handle those problems positively usually accomplish their goals in life.
It’s not luck that controls your life, but it’s your choice that determines whether you are happy and successful. Because things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
No matter what happens, those people just choose to keep going. So sooner or later, tough people will win over tough times. You know the same heat that melts butter also hardens the ground. The difference lies in how the butter and the ground respond to the heat.
So, how about you? How do you respond to and handle the heat that emerges from problems and tough times in your life? No matter which way the ball bounces, it’s still your game in life that God gave you to choose well.
「生活是你所有選擇的總和。」
—— 阿爾伯特·加繆語錄（法國小說家、散文家、劇作家，1957年諾貝爾文學獎）
選擇，就像空氣一樣，無處不在。草因選擇了地面，才有了無盡的生命力；鳥因選擇了藍天，才能盡情地展翅翱翔；魚因選擇了海洋，才能暢遊遠翔。
誠然，正是堅定不移的選擇使每一個生命都多姿多彩。生活中的一些選擇是非常重要的，這將是你一生中的裡程碑。
我清楚地記得，當我還是一個10歲的孩子的時候，我仍然不會遊泳，而其他同齡的人遊泳都很好。儘管我被教了很多次，但那時我很怕水，我的父母時不時為此失望嘆氣。我對他們說：「我對遊泳沒有興趣！「其實，我只是想掩飾自己的自卑。一天晚上，在床上，我突然哭了起來，想到我失敗了。「為什麼我做不到？「我必須學遊泳！「有了這個閣樓信仰，後來，我敢於在深水中遊泳，選擇了面對挑戰。最後，我不僅學會了遊泳，還因此獲得了一筆「財富」：與其詛咒黑暗，不如點燃一支蠟燭。
美國第32任總統富蘭克林·羅斯福（Franklin D.Roosevelt）在競選總統時曾說過：「讓我表達我的堅定信念，我們唯一要害怕的就是恐懼本身，那是一種莫名其妙的、不可理喻的、無因可循的恐怖，它會使我們百折不撓的所有付出都功虧一簣。」俗話說，只有當我們選擇以極大的勇氣面對恐懼時，我們才能戰勝挫折。
生活充滿了起起落落；我們都經歷過艱難的時期。但那些積極應對和處理這些問題的人最終會在生活中取得成功。不是運氣控制你的生活，而是你的選擇決定了你是快樂和成功與否。因為事情的結果最適合那些充分利用事情結果的人。不管發生什麼，那些人只是選擇繼續前進。所以，堅強的人遲早會戰勝困難。你知道融化黃油的熱量也會使地面變硬。區別在於黃油和地面對熱量的反應。那麼，你呢？你如何應對和處理生活中的問題和困難時期？無論球以哪種方式反彈，上帝給你的選擇仍然是你的遊戲和生命。
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