佚名/Anonymous
When I come across a good essay in reading newspapers, I am often inclined to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I fnd the article on the opposite side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front essay, the opposite one is bound to suffer damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text without the subject. As a result, the scissors would stay before they start, or halfway done when I fnd out the regretful consequence that inevitably causes my repentance.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both deserving your attention. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be given up. But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left behind. Thus you are caught in a fx and feel sad. How comethat nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once. It may happen that your life changes dramatically on your preference of one alternative to the other.
In fact that is what life is like：we are often faced with the two opposite aspects of a thing which are both desirable like newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are engaged in another. The former may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher's remarks：“When one door shuts, another opens in life.”So a casual or passive choice may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life's storm tosses us, there must be something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us. Don't forget God always keeps an alternative door open for every one. While the front door is closed, there must be another open for you.
讀報的時候，看到一篇好文章，總想把它剪下來收藏。就在我拿起剪刀準備剪的時候，才發現反麵的文章也很有趣，它要麽是討論如何保持健康，要麽是建議你怎樣為人處世。假如你剪了這麵的文章，那麵的文章勢必會損壞，隻留下一半或缺少文章題目。因此，舉起的剪刀往往停留在半空舍不得再剪，繼而不可避免地後悔、遺憾。