You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time.Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others' pity or respect.

When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.

Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won't feel ashamed of themselves about that.

Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.

One day a famous teacher was walking with his students. On the way, they saw a lake. They stopped and the teacher told the student, "I'm thirsty. Get me some water from that lake."

  Just when the student reached the lake, a cow was walking in the lake. So the water became very dirty. He thought" I can't give the dirty water to my teacher!"

  He came back and told the teacher," The water is very dirty. We can't drink it." After about half an hour, the teacher asked the students to get some water again. So he went back to the lake.

  But the lake was still dirty. So he told the teacher the same thing. After some time, the teacher asked him to go back again. But this time, he found the water was clean. The mud in the water came to the bottom. So he got some water.

The teacher looked at the water and said to him," You did nothing to make the water clean. You just let it be... Your mind is also like that! When it is bothered, just let it be. Give it some time."

   I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Uklan. From the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail(钉子) I  (1)  out of old boards.

I got my first real job, at JM’s Restaurant in town when I was 12. My main responsibilities were clearing up tables and washing dishes, but  (2)  I helped cook.

Every day after school I would  (3)  to JM’s and work until ten. Even on Saturdays, I worked from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to  (4)  and watching my friends run off to swim or play. I didn’t really like work, but I loved what work allowed me to have. Because of my job, I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local（当地的） Tastee Freez. This made me feel  (5)  .

Word that I was hardworking and trustworthy(讲诚信) got around the town. A local clothing store offered me a credit card  (6)  I was only in seventh grade. I immediately bought a $68 sport coat and a $22 pair of shoes. I was  (7)  only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed(欠) the store—keeper $90! So I learned gradually the danger of easy credit. I paid  (8)  as soon as I could.

My first job taught me self-control responsibility and brought me a level of personal satisfaction that  (9)  of my friends experienced. As my father, who worked three jobs, once told me, “If you  (10)  responsibility, there are not many things in life you can’t have.” How right he was!

About ten years ago when I was a student at college, I   (1)   my summer holidays working at a museum.  (2)  was hard for me then. Dad had lost his job and Mum was sick  (3)  . I was  (4)  if I would be able to go on with my study the next term.

One day while I was working, I saw an old man come in with a little girl  (5)  a wheelchair(轮椅). As I looked  (6)  at this girl, I found that she had no arms  (7)  legs. She was wearing a little white dress and she  (8)  had a hat on.

As the old man pushed the wheelchair up to me, I was busy with my work. I  (9)  my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). When I took the money from her grandfather, I looked back at the girl,  (10)  was giving me the prettiest, largest smile I have  (11)  seen. Suddenly her handicap(生理缺陷)  (12)  and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile almost gave me a better understanding of what life is all about. She  (13)  me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her  (14)  of smiles, love and warmth.

I’m now a successful business and  (15)  I get down and think about the trouble of the world, I think about that little girl and the unforgettable lesson about life that she taught me.

A famous violinist enters the stage to perform a solo in the music hall of New York City. Getting on the stage is not a small ____  (1)  ____ for him. A brain disease he got as a child forces him to walk with crutches(拐杖).

    Seeing him walk across the stage is hard to forget. He walks painfully, but gracefully, until he ____  (2)  ____ his chair. He sits down slowly, puts his crutches on the floor and places his legs in the correct place. Then he ____  (3)  ____ the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and starts to play.

    But suddenly ____  (4)  ____ goes wrong. The violinist finishes the first few parts of the piece, but one of the strings(弦) on his violin breaks. Everyone hears it clearly.

    People think the violinist will stop to ____  (5)  ____ another string or violin. But he doesn't. ____  (6)  ____, he stops for a moment, closes his eyes and goes on. He plays from where he stopped, with a passion and power that people have never seen before.

    It is ____  (7)  ____ to play with only three strings, but this violinist refuses to give up. He seems to play the violin in new ____  (8)  ____ to make the sounds he needs from the missing string.

    ____  (9)  ____ he finishes, everyone in the hall bursts into applause.

    He smiles and says, "Sometimes it is up to the musician to find out how much music he can make ____  (10)  ____ what he has. "

My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to come to my school, One day I was terribly ill. My mother came.“Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so embarrassed(难堪的).I wished my mother would just  (1)  from this world. “If you make me laughed，why don’t you just die?” I shouted   (2)   her, not looking at her sad look on her face. She gave me some medicine and then left, without saying  (3)  . At that time, I felt good to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn’t think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom  (4)  in her room, so quietly. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a  (5)  : I must study hard and leave my mother.Years later,I was quite successful and lived  (6)  . I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother  (7)  one day I got a letter: “Dear son… I’m sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I don’t want you to live with only one eye.   (8)  I gave you mine. I was never  (9)  with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did because I  (10)  you…”. I cried out aloud. I knew my mom was the most beautiful woman in the world.

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.

  Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?

  Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrews tell us that making our dreams real is life’s biggest challenge.

  You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream, the book says.

  In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.

Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.

  You must also never give up your dream.

  There will be difficulties on the road to your dream. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice-cream means you can buy a new book. As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills.

Many kids think they are too common. They think they are not the prettiest or smartest. Sometimes kids don’t know how special they are. When they see excellent actors or cool pop stars, they often think: Am I excellent? What am I going to be when I grow up?

Growing up means understanding what you can do and what you can offer to the world. When you are young, you don’t see that. But when you get older, you may know that just by being yourself, you do offer something to other people.

Maybe you aren’t the best, but that doesn’t make you “not special”. Think about your friends. Write down some things that you like about them. Think about why you are friends. You are going to know that in the end, though they aren’t the smartest or the prettiest or the most talented, they are great in their way. And they feel just the same as you!

In fact it is great to be the best at something, but it’s OK if you can’t be the best. If you just live your life and try hard, you are still pretty amazing. And you can make your dream come true.