Once President Roosevelt's house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. Hearing this, one of Roosevelt's friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his heart so much.
President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying, "Dear friend, thank you for your letter to comfort me. I'm all right now. I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons: firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly1, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief…"
It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from. However, President Roosevelt had such three reasons to be so grateful. This story tells us how we can learn to be grateful in our life.
Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom. It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. Smile and so will it when you cry to it. If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.
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We should learn how to face failure or misfortune2 bravely and generously and to try to deal with it. If so, should we complain about our life and become frustrated3 and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall?
If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.
I think we should even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky. Only by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. We can also get relief and warmth when we are unlucky. This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face, and receive great impetus4 to move on. We should treat our frustration5 and misfortune in our life in the other way just as President Roosevelt did. We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy attitude to our life forever, keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind of comfort, not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope. <a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.hTml>家長推薦的蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
When we put a small piece of alum into muddy water, we can see the alum can soon make the water clear. If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we'll be able to get rid of impulse6, upset, dissatisfaction and misfortune. Being grateful can bring us a better and more beautiful life.
1 secondly
adv.第二，其次
參考例句：
Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，動腦筋提出自己的見解。 Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要確定所作用的載荷。
2 misfortune
n.不幸，厄運，逆境，不幸事故，災(zāi)難
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參考例句：
It is said to be an omen of misfortune.那被認(rèn)為是一種不幸的先兆。 She had the misfortune to break her leg.她不幸摔斷了腿。
3 frustrated
adj.挫敗的，失意的，泄氣的v.使不成功( frustrate的過去式和過去分詞 )；挫敗；使受挫折；令人沮喪
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It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 這個工作很容易令人懊惱。 The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 惡劣的天氣破壞了我們出行的愿望。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4 impetus
n.推動，促進，刺激；推動力
參考例句：
This is the primary impetus behind the economic recovery.這是促使經(jīng)濟復(fù)蘇的主要動力。 Her speech gave an impetus to my ideas.她的講話激發(fā)了我的思緒。
5 frustration
n.挫折，失敗，失效，落空
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He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不強忍住失意的淚水。 He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮喪地用手打了幾下方向盤。
6 impulse
n.（一時的）沖動，沖力，脈沖，神經(jīng)沖動
參考例句：
She wrote that letter on impulse.她一時沖動寫了這封信。 I don't know how to resist my impulse.我不知道怎樣抑制自己的感情沖動。
《Be grateful to life》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
