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佳作欣赏:Follow Your Dream!(ZT)

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发表于 2004-10-8 22:10 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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Follow Your Dream
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I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro.
$ R5 k0 }, ~4 C* o+ ?- F7 eHe has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money + J: \" `4 A" t9 f% j  _
for youth at risk programs.
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The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, 'I want to tell you 4 W. H' o, ?' u5 y: v; [! V
why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young + E" S' g6 B& {  [+ P. e; w
man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable
* }% T8 f& N; q( fto stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training ) M8 n; S7 u# x; }8 @7 ~
horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was continually interrupted.
9 L4 G" n/ I! A4 _9 P- D' lWhen he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted
( y" T* h0 U+ F( Lto be and do when he grew up.
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'That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday + j( c, p, L1 k8 K5 w/ |1 {  Z2 A
owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even
1 C, L( W4 H# h, {2 }* `/ h6 Zdrew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, ! h6 [' U2 W( ]6 ?; L: L
the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot
7 |$ \/ o" N' b) G4 G3 B) {- ohouse that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
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'He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he # ]% a/ j' O5 [! L
handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back.
4 r2 E. j- s5 B/ n# Q0 oOn the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after
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' l" h2 j2 v  v, T  g1 O'The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, , Q& w4 W' F. o2 [0 n' }" ^
`Why did I receive an F?'
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: E, T5 ~) S8 U# k'The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. 9 w3 x! i2 r: D2 d: E& {
You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources.
" y! g+ l; E& ?! \3 F  }( v) o9 kOwning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land.
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pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher
. W) c$ y! \3 S9 e, Dadded, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will
( @: a" U/ }& L2 R: Sreconsider your grade.’
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+ J& m7 V, s  H$ t% c: p'The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father
3 B; ?, G: X) }  m: Hwhat he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your
. q' n0 j3 S( q5 d' \own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for * G) L) W0 S; k! k: o" T; G, K
you.’
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'Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same & k- g7 _+ H& u/ U  i
paper, making no changes at all. He stated, `You can keep the F and I'll
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& h8 X! V( t, U3 E6 f" ^Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, 'I tell you this story
% T" O& K. H, q+ Qbecause you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of
/ W; j0 h- x5 _* \my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the
* r* U0 U* g4 Q6 c& h+ s, p, ~, ifireplace.' He added, 'The best part of the story is that two summers ago * S, P) ], n, J3 U
that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.' % @  {0 T  e% p: Z
When the teacher was leaving, he said, `Look, Monty, I can tell you this ; m& ^9 c4 e5 a% i
now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During
- Z# t" x- |9 I* |  N4 }those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption
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. ~; O8 q$ s* ^2 ZDon't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
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发表于 2004-10-10 12:40 | 显示全部楼层

啧啧,真是理想主义者

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发表于 2004-10-20 20:21 | 显示全部楼层
Fine
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发表于 2004-10-20 20:43 | 显示全部楼层
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