It was a memory about the author’s expedition. The author was on mountain climbing in California. The weather was good but it turned bad on Tuesday of second week. Suddenly, a thunderstorm came rapidly and rained heavily. The water was big enough to flow together as a little river, isolating the author and one of his companions from a small island. After struggling for a while, they successfully escaped from the island and found a place to set up their camp and kept waiting until the thunderstorm stopped.
This memory lets the author know that the Mother Nature is hard to estimate. This unforgettable memory gives the author a thought into his brain about the life after school. He thinks that he is a brave teenager, considering that he can do anything without anyone’s help. But finally he knows that if he can awake from his follies, he will have a clear vision to fly higher and farther.
At the final year in high school, the author finally gets good grades. He feels that his mind is clear and knows that he has to work hard to get what he wants.
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Learning is not the only way of life; if you find something meaningful and achieve it, you will feel that your mental develop and become mature while facing problems.
This summer vacation, a friend of mine and I rode a bike to Wu-ling(武嶺). We first day set out from Pu-li and arrived Ching-Jing farm for rest, and we achieved Wu-ling at the second day. It was a very stunning experience because Wu-ling is the highest point of all roads in Taiwan. The distance from Pu-li to Wu-ling is about fifty kilometers but the altitude rises up to 3275 meters high. It is a little bit difficult for cars to drive, not to mention a bike driven by manpower.
In this experience, I learn that no matter how difficult the obstacles we face, we will finally defeat them if we keep up working with a strong will. Although the route is difficult, with slopes that are long and steep. We could also go back at the time we felt it was hard to continue, but we decided to keep going and finally achieve it. When we arrived with exhausted body, the feeling was not fatigue but a sense of achievement.
Learning and achieving something meaningful have a mutual effect to each other. We can accomplish more things with the experience from learning and achieving things. When we enter the working field in the future, those experiences will be useful tools for us.
I cannot agree with you more; life is full of challenge, there are many things found by ourselves. I think your experience is a good example of gaining internal treasure by way of your own effort, and it reminds me one of the events happened in high school.
回覆刪除I was in a swimming class, fumbling with the water. The PE teacher unwittingly found I was floating on the water, and then he taught me backstroke. In the final test, we had to swimming for 200 meters. It was a huge challenge to me; after swimming through the midpoint, I began to feel exhausted. My speed slow down, almost had no strength to move forward. At that time, two teachers and several classmates started cheer me on. Feeling an endless strength come out, I started to struggle along the way until reaching the goal. Finally, I passed the test successfully; everyone gave me a big applause.
Instead of feeling exhausted, I found how meaningful it is to fulfill one thing with a persistent mind. The experience made me gradually become steady when I face every adversity. Even up to the present, it still helps me a lot. Thus, I hold the same opinion as you: To achieve something meaningful is to mellow oneself, and once he or she derives more truth, these experiences will help them out more effectively.