3.
One afternoon, I went to pick up my mother from work.
(1) , I looked outside the car window, there was a small park
(2) I saw a little boy running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy would then fall to the grass,
(3) , and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face,
(4) nothing happened.
When they fall down, kids don"t
(5) their falling down as a failure, but
(6) , they treat it as a learning experience,
(7) just another result of outcome. They try and try again
(8) they succeed. They haven"t associated "falling down" with the word "
(9) " yet, thus they don"t know how to feel the state which accompanies failure. So they don"t
(10) . Plus, they probably think to themselves that it"s perfectly okay to fall down, and that it"s not
(11) to do so. In other words, they give themselves
(12) to make mistakes, subconsciously.
While I was
(13) by the boy"s persistence, I was equally touched by the
(14) in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so confident…so natural. His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a child - just being himself - being completely in the moment. He was not looking for approval or was not worrying about
(15) someone was watching. He wasn"t
(16) about being judged. He didn"t seem to be bothered by
(17) that maybe someone would see him fall. No, what
(18) to him was to accomplish the task or activity
(19) to the best of his ability.
I learned a lot from that
(20) and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my life.