One day, I took an underground to work, I saw something that made me very sad. On the tube( underground in London), a mother kept looking at her phone screen and playing a game with her daughter sitting beside her. The little girl, about 5 years old, was talking to her mother about her day, repeating the next stop's name cheerfully, praising her mother's long nails--trying to draw her mother's attention. Her mother just nodded and mumbled "Mm, hm" with her eyes glued to the screen, busy passing the levels of the game. I watched the girl give a final try to at least get her mum to look at her, but it was no use. Then the little girl turned silent. It was a shame the mother didn't notice that.

      It broke my heart and got me wondering--what kind of game would make the mother forget she has the most beautiful thing in the world, the human she created, the person she loves with all her heart? What it meant when she couldn't look into her daughter's eyes and even stop to listen to the girl?

      Some parents are almost like the teenagers, always on their phones with mindless games or going through Facebook. Perhaps parents have many things to deal with, but sometimes they are everything to their kids.

     This is not an isolated example. I've seen too many such examples. I might not be a parent myself, and probably still have a long way before becoming one, but I know what I saw isn't right.

     The scene used to be seen among teenagers very often when parents complained how their children were crazy about their mobile phones. Look how the situation has changed! The parents have become "technology slaves", that is to say, they can't control themselves while using mobile phones. Now some middle-aged parents hold the best iPhones or Samsung phones, which are probably the only two brands they know. They are playing the simple games with so expensive mobile phones. I'm uncertain whether to laugh or to cry. But my hope is that this storm passes.

The day she won the lottery (彩票) was the greatest day of her life. As she took the check for one million dollars, Jenny, started making plans. A new house, a new car, a vacation in the sun. And of course, she could stop working--- give her life a big change.

   Eight years later, Jenny was out of money. The money was all gone. So were her friends. The new life was over, but how could she go back to her old one?

   Winners of sudden wealth often give up their jobs, and they don’t know what to do with the time. They may find that close friends are far away and that it’s difficult to make new ones. The new house often only leads to more loneliness. What seemed to be wonderful luck turns out to be the opposite. It seems that winning a lot of money doesn’t mean happiness. Just ask Jenny. She has got a new job and new friends now, but she would probably say, “Money isn’t everything…”

When I was in Grade I in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Carl. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on Friday? He must be a fool." I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friend tomorrow afternoon), so I shook my head and went on. Suddenly, a crowd of kids ran toward him, knocking all his books out of his arms and making him fall down on the mess. His glasses went flying, and I saw them fall on the grass about ten feet from him. He felt low and terrible. As he touched around looking for his glasses, I ran over to him. I handed him his glasses and said, "Those guys are awful. They really should be educated to be better."

   He smiled at me and said, "Hey, thanks!" I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. Then I knew he lived near me and he had studied in a private school before. We talked all the way home, and I carried his books. I found him a pretty cool kid actually. I asked him if he wanted to play football on Saturday with me and my friends. He said yes. The more I got to know Carl, the better I liked him. And my friends thought the same of him.

   Over the next two years, Carl and I have been best friends. One day, he told me he had to prepare a speech for graduation (毕业). I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So, I hugged him and said, "Hey, big boy, you'll be great!" He looked at me with a real grateful look and said thanks.

   As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began, "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you get through those hard times. Your parents, your teachers, your sisters and brothers, maybe a coach, but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give him or her. I am going to tell you a story."

   I just looked at my friend surprisingly as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend at that time. He mentioned how he had cleaned out the lock in his heart. He looked at me again and gave me a little smile. "Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the silly." He continued. I heard my own breath go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment. I saw his Morn and Dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize the meaning of their smiles.

   Never underestimate the power of your behaviors. With one small action, you can change a person's life. For better or for worse.

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A true friend is always helpful. I didn’t believe it until one thing happened（发生）to me when I was in Grade 8.

Jason was one of my classmates. He and I were also neighbors (邻居). He always listened to his mother but I didn’t like listening to my mother. I didn’t think it was necessary for her to teach me anything. Jason knew all about that but he said nothing to me.

One weekend, Jason invited me to watch a movie. I liked movies very much so I went to the cinema with him happily. The movie was about the love between a mother and her son. After watching it, I began to know how great the love of the mother was. I felt sorry that I didn’t listen to my mother before. I decided to think more about my mother than about myself. After I told that to him, Jason smiled (微笑) and said, “It’s really necessary for you to watch this movie. It’s good for both you and me.”

At that time, I knew why he invited me to watch the movie. Just at that time, I knew a true friend is always helpful.

Life is like the four seasons. Now I am very old,but when I was young,it was the spring of my life. I was born,I played a lot,and then I started school. I learned many new things. Like a flower,I grew bigger every day. There were happy days and sorrowful days：some days the sun shone,and some days it didn’t.

In my twenties,I had a good job. I was strong and happy. Then I married and had a child. In those days, I didn’t have much time to think. Every day I was busy and worked very hard. And so,I started to get some white hairs.The summer of my life passed quickly.

Then the days got shorter. Leaves fell from the trees. My child was a university student, and then an engineer. My home was much quieter. I started walking more slowly. One day I stopped working. I had more time. I understood this was my autumn, a beautiful time when the trees change color and give us delicious fruits.

But the days kept getting shorter and colder. Winter has come. I am older and weaker. I know I do not have many days left,but I will enjoy them to the end.

As a student, I was afraid to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around were just like me．At the beginning of each class, when the teacher asked a question, I always lowered my head because I was afraid the teacher.                   

One day, in a foreign language class, Mr. Black gave us a lesson．He wanted us to be active in class. SO he asked us some questions, but no one answered. “Let me tell you a story first.” he said. “When I came to the United States to study, the university often invited famous people to make speeches. Before the beginning of every speech, I found an interesting thing. The students around me always took a cardboard folded (折叠的纸板)in hall wrote their names with the most eye-catchingcolor, and then placed the cardboard on the seat. So when the speaker needed the answers from the students, he could see and call a listener’s name directly.”

   “I couldn’t understand that. My classmate told me the speakers were all top people, who meant chances. When your answer was to his surprise, it meant he might give you more chances. In fact, I really saw a few students got great chances because of that.”

   After listening to the story, I understood that the chance will not find you itself. You must show yourself all the time so that you can find a chance on the card.

 Last spring I was walking in a park.In front of me there was a mum and her 3-year-old daughter.The little girl was holding a string(线)，which had a balloon at the other end.

All of a sudden,a light wind took the balloon away from the little girl.I thought she would cry.

But,no!As the little girl turned to watch her balloon rise to the sky,she cheerfully(欢呼)shouted out”Wow!”

That little girl taught me something.Later that day,I received a phone call from my friend,and he told me an unexpected problem.I felt like replying(回复)with”Oh,no,what should we do?”But remembering that little girl,I found myself saying,”Wow,that is interesting!How can I help you?”

One thing is for sure----life is always going to make us face unexpected problems.However,how to deal with them is our choice.We can choose to be annoyed（烦闷） or interested.

No matter what the situation (情况) is,a “Wow!”will always beat “Oh,no.”

So next time you meet one of life’s unexpected guests,remember that little girl and make it a “Wow!’experience.The”Wow!”always works.

Mary loved small animals. One morning while she was walking in the forest, she found two weak birds in the grass. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She looked after them with love and the birds both grew well. They thanked her with a wonderful song every morning.

But something happened one day. The larger bird flew out of the cage. She thought that it would fly away, so she grasped (抓紧) it quickly. She was very excited to catch it. Suddenly she felt strange. She opened her hand and found the bird was dead. Her great love killed the bird!

The other bird was moving back and forth in the cage. Mary could feel the bird wanted to go out. It wanted to fly into the blue sky. At once, Mary took the bird out of the cage and let it fly away. Mary enjoyed watching the bird flying and singing. It sang the sweetest song that she had ever heard.

The easiest way to lose love is to hold it tight. The best way to keep love is to give it freedom.

Everyone wants to be successful. But only a few of them succeed. As we know Rome(罗马) was not built in a day. On our long way to success, there are many difficulties getting in the way. If we lose heart and give up halfway, nothing can be achieved. So, if you want to be a successful person, you must have a strong mind and perseverance (毅力). Throughout the history, we have had many famous successful people in the world, no one is weak-minded. Take the great American scientist Edison as an example, he tried experiment after experiment and had one failure (失败) after another before he finally invented the light bulb, which lighted up the whole world. So we know that perseverance is one of the secrets of success. And one needs to work hard to achieve his dream, just as the famous saying goes “ Hard work leads to success.”

Look at those people around us. We’ll find that diligent people always achieve more than others. Why is that? Because they work harder than others. That’s why so many of our classmates with so-so IQs can go far ahead of others. And still, our world is changing all the time; we must try our best to keep up with it. So, one can never be locked alone inside his own room, doing his research work and only learn the knowledge from the books. He has to learn more things around the world through different ways.