When I was young, I was always frustrated ( 挫败的 ), and almost everything ended in failure. I hung out everywhere all day. Having seen me like that, my father
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to cheer me up.
One day, he gave me a cup of water and asked me to taste it. I found it
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. My father said he just put one small spoonful of salt in the cup. And then, he led 小题3:
to a lake, where he threw a big handful of salt
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the lake, scooped up a spoonful of water and let me taste it again. He asked, "Does it
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taste salty?"' "Not at all," I said. My father said, "Now you may know the root (根源) of your
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:You are just a cup of water, not a lake. Be a lake and you won't
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sad any more."
I came to understand my
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motive (目的): I feel unlucky
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my heart is as small as a cup of water without great ideals as a lake.
To be a lake
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great ideals, your feeling of failures and frustrations will be melted ( 融化) like the salt thrown into the lake.