Camilla Chomp was a strange littlegirl. She liked to spend her time alone eating chocolate. Her parents wereworried, so they tookall the chocolate away.

    Camilla left her house to look forsome chocolate. She found a small house full of bottles. Among the bottles, a blue bottle caught Camilla's eyes. It was full of chocolate.In the bottle there was also a card with the words "Changetears(眼泪)intochocolate."

    Camilla was very excited. She ran outof the house with the bottle to look for someone crying. First, she met a little boy crying hard and collected his tears. The tears were quickly changed into chocolate. While Camillawas collecting the tears, she comfortedthe boy. Finally, the boystopped crying and they had a good time together.

    Later, Camilla met awoman and an old man crying. The woman had broken some bowls.And the old man's dog had just died. Camilla collected their tears and made them happy again.

    Soon, Camilla knew thatmaking people happy was much more important than finding chocolate. So shestopped collecting tears and began to help sad people. As a result, she had many friends and had a happylife.

    When most 8-year-old children are in school or playing, little Anna Wang from China is looking after her grandmother and great-grandmother.

    The family lives in a poor house in the remote mountains(偏远山区) of Huling, Rui'an. Her mother and father leave her when she is only 3 months old. She has a grandmother and a 92-year-old great-grandmother. Her grandmother is ill(生病的), so she can't look after herself. Anna cooks for them, and helps them with housework every day. Every morning, she gets up early and cooks breakfast for her family. She often cleans the house, and helps them to the toilet(厕所). She has no other family to help her.

    A neighbor(邻居), Lin Feng, with a farm usually gives Anna vegetables, and he helps her carry them to her home. Sometimes he even buys clothes for her and her family. Also Lin Feng teaches her to read and write.

    Little Anna says she does the housework happily because she wants to. She always says "I should be ready to help my family and other people because we should love everyone all over the world."

    I once did a year of voluntary service in a residential(居住的) home for people with learning disabilities. It was set in an English village deep in the countryside, quite different from my home in Sweden. One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a little unhappy, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home who had financial difficulties and maybe it was impossible for her to complete her university courses.

    So this friend of mine had sent all her money to Tanzania to support her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and no money to go anywhere outside the village.

    I was so moved and I felt I had to do something. So, during my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into a shop. I didn't have much money left myself but I thought I'd buy her an extra box of chocolate we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman (also a volunteer) working in the shop and finally told her about my friend.

     The woman looked at me, amazed. "Does she eat pasta?" she asked. "Yes," I replied. She immediately started loading a bag with pasta, cookies, and other things until the bag was full. "Give her this for me. It's my treat!" I couldn't believe it but accepted with happiness. As I left the shop to go home with my unexpected bag of food. I asked the woman her name. "Just Gloria," she said.

    Imagine my friend's face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table and attracted her from room to see! I had never seen her so happy! A few weeks later she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her in person.

    These two extraordinary(非凡的) women really showed me what true kindness and compassion(同情) are, and the impression will stay with me for the rest of my life!

    Once there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was said that the island would go down, so all made boats and left except Love.

    Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to offer her help until the last possible moment. When the island had almost gone down, Love decided to ask for help.

    Richness was passing by Love in a great boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

    Sadness was close by, so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you." "Oh, Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

    Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even notice when Love called her.

    Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love was so excited that she even forgot to ask who the elder was. So Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?" "It was Time." Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"

    Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time understands how valuable Love is."