题型:阅读选择 题类:模拟题 难易度:普通
浙江省台州市椒江区2019年初中英语毕业升学模拟考试卷
I am not interested in making New Year's resolutions. Making promises to myself just because the calendar changed doesn't make any sense to me.
But this year, there came a defining ( 决定性的) moment. It came when my adult children, who'd been home for two weeks, headed back to their homes.
There was a sadness I felt as I waved until their cars went out of sight, not knowing when I'd see them again.
But there was also a knowing at that moment that something in me needed to change. So I asked myself, "What is truly good in your life?"
What is good is my relationships with my children, but not only those relationships.
What also keeps my heart beating is creating a home, no matter who is there, and cooking balanced, plant-based meals, even if just for me. I find joy in nature and connecting with close friends and my family. I love doing photography and writing and teaching myself the piano.
Whatever was missing from my life, at the end of last year I knew about the parts that worked. And as winter ended and the last of the visiting children was ready to leave, I looked to the future.
I think of my friend, Lisa, who in May lost her husband of 30 years to cancer, and who found herself on New Year's Eve with no one to be with.
Her loneliness was profound at that turning-point moment, but her sadness was momentary(短暂的).
"I realized I had a choice," she told me. Instead of giving way to loneliness and despair, she chose to find something productive to do.
We humans can become bored with defeat.
We know something is just the other side. Like a new year.
I have two choices. I can brand myself as the long-suffering mother who never figured out how to live on after her children left. Or I can take to the piano in the center of the house each day and practice Ode to Joy(《欢乐颂》) with one hand until such time as I feel ready to play with two.
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