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| Learning to Accept I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However, he did not teach me acceptance(接受) when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 1 and ill. My father was once a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 2 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 3 One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my 4 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow-our youth, our beauty, our friends-but it always 5 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 6 up. He said, "But, Peter. I gave up 7 ! What did I gain?" I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 8 , he answered his own question. "I 9 the love of my family." I looked at my sisters, and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness. I was also 10 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated(激动的) at someone, I would remember his words and become 11 . He could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 12 to give up my small irritations. In this 13 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father. Sometimes I 14 what other things I cold learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful(感谢的)for this 15 . |
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