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.

One of the secrets(秘诀)of successful people is that they have good habits. The good habits help them to be successful. What are good habits? How can you get into good habits? Here is some advice for you.

First, everyone has his good points(优点).You should always look for the good points in people and learn from them.

Second, you should try to learn good new things every day. Reading a few pages of a book or newspaper every day also helps you.

Third, tell yourself you are good. When you get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror(镜子)and tell yourself you can do things well.

I think the last one is the most important. No matter what good habits you want to have, you should try to keep them，work hard everyday. Then you can live a successful and happy life.

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.

At noon the rush hour had passed. There were few guests in the restaurant. It was not crowed. When the boss was going to take a break to read a newspaper, in came an old lady and a little boy.

“How much is a bowl of beef soup?” The grandma sat down, counted the money in her wallet and ordered a bowl of soup. The grandma pushed the bowl to the little boy, who swallowed his saliva(口水),looking at his grandma and saying, “Grandma, did you really have lunch?” “Of course.” His grandma chewed a piece of radish(萝卜泡菜)slowly. Very quickly, the little boy ate up the meal.

Seeing this, the boss went over to them and said, “Old lady, congratulations, you are lucky to have the free food, for you are our 100th guest.”

Later, over a month or more. One day. the small boy sat across from the restaurant, where he seemed to be counting something, which shocked the boss he happened to look out of the window.

When the small boy saw a guest walk into the restaurant, he would put a small stone(石头)into the circle he drew, but the lunch time had almost passed, the small stones he put into the circle were hardly 50.

The boss was quite worried and called up all his old guests. The guests started coming one after another,”81,82,83…..”The small boy counted faster and faster. At last, when the 99th small stone was put into the circle, the little boy hurried to pull his grandma’s hand and went into the restaurant.

“Grandma, this time it’s on me,” the little boy said proudly. The grandma who had become the real 100th guest was served a bowl of beef soup by her grandson. As his grandma did as before, the little boy chewed a piece of radish in his mouth.

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.

 Night after night, she came to help me fall asleep, even long after my childhood years. I don’t remember when it first started making me feel uncomfortable — my mom’s hands pushing my hair that way. But it did make me uncomfortable, for they felt rough(粗糙的) on my face. Finally, one night, I shouted at her, “Don’t do that anymore! Your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say anything, but she never did it again.

           Years later, I missed my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss on my face. I was not a little girl any more. My mom was in her mid-seventies, and her rough hands were still doing things for my family and me.

           It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar(熟悉的) hand ran across my face to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my eyelid(眼睑).

           Taking my mom’s hand, I told her how sorry I was for that night. But my mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten it.

           That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation(感激) to my gentle mother. And theguiltthat I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be founded.

Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.

"I don't sing,"said the man.

But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!"

The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"

So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!

He had talent he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as an unknown piano player in an unknown bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.

You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.

 A young man wastaking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. They thought it belonged to a poor man who worked in a field nearby.

      The studentturned to the professor, saying, “Let us play the man a trick: we will take away his shoes, andconcealourselves behind those trees, and wait to see what will happen when he cannot find them. That must be very interesting.”

      “My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never play jokes on others because of their being poor. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the discovery changes him.”

      The studentdid so, and they both hid themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came back. While putting on his coat, he put his foot into one of his shoes. Feeling something hard, he bent down to see what it was and found the coin. He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He put the money into his pocket. When he put on the other shoe, his surprise doubled on finding the other coin. He fell upon his knees, looked up to the sky and said aloud some thanksgiving words to the person who gave him the coins.

      The studentstoodthere deeply moved, and his eyes were filled with tears. “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of these words, which I never understand before: “A small act of kindness brings great joy.” he said.

Billy Dengler, a 14-year-old boy, is in the eighth grade. A month after he was born, Billy’s mother, Terri, noticed that his eyes weren’t quite as big as a normal baby’s. She took Billy to the hospital, and the doctor said Billy would never be able to see.

Although Billy can’t see, he has never let that hold him back or make him different . Billy began teaching himself computer programming by using a screen reader when he was just seven years old. He is a certified Google developer（谷歌认证开发者） now. Google even tried to offer him a job last year when he discovered a problem in one of its systems, but Billy wasn’t old enough.

Billy’s dream school would be Stanford University or MIT, where he could get a very good education in computer science. After he leavesschool, whether he will go to work at a company like Google or design a software company of his own isn’t still to be decided. However, he says he will definitely（绝对地） do something great.

“It’s a sighted world,” Billy said. “You can’t let anything get in the way of your dreams, and if you do that, you can’t move forward and make your dreams come true.”

  I think it’s hard for a teenager to live in the modern society. For example, how to go to school is a problem I often worry about. Every afternoon, my father picks me up at the gate of school. Many parents pick up their children, too. Most of them drive private cars. Of all the cars, Anna’s father’s car is the best. Anna seems to have a very rich father. She always has beautiful dresses, shoes and bags. Besides these, she is also beautiful. But she has no friends in school. When other students are playing, she never joins them. I don’t like her because she is too perfect. It makes me uncomfortable to make friends with her. She seems to have everything.

  One afternoon, when I went to my father’s car, I saw a small thing fall out of Anna’s bag. So I called her quickly. However, she didn’t look back and kept going. I felt very angry with her.

  During the dinner, my father asked me, “Why do you look unhappy?”

  “Today I saw something fall out of Anna’s bag, so I called her. But she didn’t answer me. She is arrogant.” I said angrily.

  “Oh, I know that girl. She has no friends and is unhappy because she was born deaf. I’m sure that she didn’t hear you.. ”

  What my father said suddenly woke me up. Because she is deaf, she does not talk or play with anyone at school. She seems to have everything, but in fact she doesn’t.

  No everyone is perfect, even the perfect man has his weakness.

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