The happy class of Harvard
There is a class named happy in Harvard which is really popular elective cause in Harvard University. The instructor graduated from Harvard and he is a active student. He joined sports club, students association and studied in London for a while. But he didn’t feel happy at all during his college time. He thought that happiness is the only standard and final distention for one’s life. He explained how unhappy life effect a person’s life even he is rich. People are seeking for money and wealth that lost happiness. If a society is filled of depression, the society will be a depression. He pointed out factors that related to a person’s unhappy. There are 10 tips that helped people to be happy. Because of his experience he told students how the importance of happiness. Many students really enjoyed his class.
After I read his article, I really want to take that lesson. In the modern society people are pursuing wealthy, because of this they lost the basic propose of life which is happy. Now there is someone who teach us how to be happy, it sounds a little funny. We are busing with something else, and ignore happy. We always think that a big house, a new car, having a lot of money can make us happy. Does it really make us happy? Does the process make us happy? We should think more about this. When I read this article at the first time I feel sad about this. Because we need a teacher tell us what is happy and how to be happy. But after I read it, I think this class is teaching you how to enjoy your life, there are many good and happy things happen on you, you need to find it. To tell you having a healthy life attitude enjoy your life no matter what’s kind of life do you have. the 10 tips that the author listed in the article I used them to be my happiness tips. They help me a lot and give me directions when I was lost. The last sentence give me a deep impression. A student came out after that class and said “taking this class is a enjoyable time, it is really interesting and worth to learn, the special thing is when students left classroom, they always feel the spring is coming. That’s way I always reminder myself to read the 10 tips, I want to keep refresh and looking forward. They are good medicine when I was depressing and hopeless. I benefit a lot.
The power of faith
This is a no doubtable game. The ability gap of two teams are very big. The iraq must lose this game, a no peaceful country how to win the soccer game. It is impossible. But the result is Iraq win this game just because of the faith in their heats. The other players have a high level skills and dominate the pace of the game, the Iraq team never gave up, no matter how good for the other they still trying their best to compete a little chance for their team. This is not a typical game report, it is a report of players psychological game. The audience are cherring for both of the team, but they gave Iraq players hope and confidence. The author’s description get into readers heart to feeing the exciting game but the spiritual interaction
This is a totally different style from the typical sports report. When we watching a game, we always think who will win, who has a level of sport skills we almost forget the background of the team and the inside of the players. Iraq is a country like this. The war never stop in Iraq. People lived in a unsafe and dangerous country. In our mind they always expecting a peace homeland and lost all of interests of people’s life. But I found the more precious thing after I read it. Sometimes we can’t change the bad situation, we can’t choose where I can live. Especially when troubles came, we can’t escape, and have to face them and solve them. so at this time we need confidence and courage to get though it. Not all of us brave, however the players in the field teach me how to face the difficulty. They try their best to show that even our country having war but we still very optimistic to enjoy our life. People said everyone is equal, but we have to accept the truth, which is not true. Can you say the people lived in Iraq is the same as people lived in America? Of cause no. the soccer players told us even our material life has a huge gap, but being a person we are the same. If someone ask how can we win the game. The answer is the power of faith. We believed that only if we try our best, the miracle could happen.
Only if we have faith, confidence, and courage, anything is possible. It is what I learned after reading this article.
Home
What is home? What is the definition of home? Every person has his own definition. It could change as you change. It is a article that talking about the definition of home change as the people’s age change. When we are little, the home is where our parents are, there is our home. When we young home is not a only place but be many places. The college dorm could be consider a home. When we are in the middle age, where is my companion is, there is our home. When we are old, where is our children, there is our home. Most of the time home as defined as a place, but in most of time, home is a place in our heart, not just a specific place. It could say like this, home is a kite’s holder. No matter where is the kite going, it must be concerned by the holder. That is the home.
I can deeply feel what the home is. I studied in another country which is far away home. Homesick usually happened in my first year in college. But most of time when I was homesick, I always think is the atmosphere in my family, just a specific thing we did together. Not only a place you live. Home is a place that you lived with the people you loved and concerned. The home is place you want to share happiness and cure sadness. My favorite two descriptions about home are “home is a harbor; we are the boats. Home is a kite’s holder; we are kites”. When I think about home, there are some segments in my mind, such as my mom yell me to have the lunch, she reminder me to take the umbrella in case raining, arguing that I didn’t think I was wrong, and so on. when we at home, we always want to get out, because we think home limit our freedom. But when we far away from home we really want to go back, because it is so warm. Just like something when you lost it you realized how precious is. If you tell me what is home, I can tell you what is forever.
No waiting, younger women are saying yes to motherhood
This is article is talking about young women staring in their motherhood. The women were waiting to have babies longer and longer in the past 40 years, the main reason is that women put their energy to career. But at the recent years, the mother’s mean age at their fist childbirth tend to younger. It because of their attitude is changing. They want to have family and career at the same time. This article gave some examples to lay out the different attitudes towards to having children when they are young in different situation. One of women will go to work after their children go to school, she thought that career is important for her but family is more important right now. Another example is talking about a famous basket player Sarah. She said that she wants her children to have benefits from young parents. So if you have a baby too late, the children wouldn't get benefits or it wouldn’t good for children. They want to their children to have their own grandparents, because it is very important.
As the human society was set up, men and women have their own role and responsibility. Women were considering staying at home and caring babies in the old time. As the society developing, women recognized that they can do the same job as men. They should have the same right with men, because the society was as patriarchy. The feminism appears as followed. As the article said, in the past 40 years women were trying to prove their ability and equality. They gave up to be mom when they were young and focus on career. It leads women who delay having the first child longer and longer. There are some problems which appear as followed. The good thing is many young women realized that family is as important as career. Women are going back to family and try to balance the two roles in society.
the road, no matter wide and narrow.
We always like to compare everything, even a apple we eat today and another apple I ate yesterday, we think these two apples are test different. We like to compare something happened now and it happened before. We try to find the difference between them. a teacher said we lived in the past experience. If you can’t find the same, the pain will come out. That is the article talking about.
We should know ourselves is different in each second, and don't need to use any minute to be a standard, your live will be good. The different segment of your life combine to your whole life. We want to be good all the time, and ignore the difficulties. That is impossible. We can’t live in any single part of our lives. Any of segments wouldn't be erased. If you only have on type of style life, you life will be a glass of water and really boring. No matter the road is wide or marrow, we have to enjoy it. Because once we can understand the meaning in the background, there is no difference between good and bad. Life is the process of water that from the start to the end. The most beautiful part is the process. We can’t separate it, which is a whole, any port of them are missing, this is a fragmental artwork.
