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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. 2 g2 B: R9 R& r9 n
He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money ! w3 D9 X$ x8 g$ f2 P. O$ b6 _, ^
for youth at risk programs. : H- g) Z: X7 C% G
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The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, 'I want to tell you
& o% E  Z; `, G1 w: ~5 Swhy I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young " S5 u1 E) j# H; K
man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable 6 ~6 C  l% |+ c) h3 F6 c2 v, ]9 W
to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training
" O) }$ b+ P& x: e6 M, Thorses. As a result, the boy's high school career was continually interrupted. $ X  p. o0 r% ]6 n
When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted 2 P* Y) J5 f( G# A: i
to be and do when he grew up. 3 u+ j' R+ f, e. n% f4 a+ Y

9 M  ?. B  _! h( \+ r9 p! V  m'That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday 6 N- h; O  w* t  z5 ~5 b5 n
owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even
: D! g/ r/ Z: ]" W' U; i+ L) ^drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, 6 O  K$ B( m' E  E- X& O1 R
the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot
. C( q+ ?& _: R' thouse that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch. . Z/ S9 K# G' D8 ~

3 v" l% w& i; j'He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he
7 _# y% A6 m& N3 w/ f' E6 _handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. 2 D& f7 I& X. |5 N  e
On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after
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'The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked,
" y4 n) }' q6 x- C/ Q: h: K`Why did I receive an F?' ; d" x) g( _" h2 T1 J8 s3 d; s
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'The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you.
; \% n- S2 N0 M  F8 UYou have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. 9 t& F* r- U& p. Y' c
Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land.
# D' N" V* d" X! ?% C; JYou have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to
$ `9 O9 N0 z  R7 T& epay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher
; e1 _" d( K/ w0 C6 y5 \2 R/ L+ vadded, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will
3 |0 }: C) ?5 U- |0 Lreconsider your grade.’   H, U" C1 N" S0 r0 V9 W
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'The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father ; ~! u  b1 F; z
what he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your 8 _: x. w$ s  o8 B# ~/ K7 E/ `
own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for
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  i7 ^7 K% `+ v5 c0 A'Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same
7 ?6 w) b8 V2 i3 ]/ Tpaper, making no changes at all. He stated, `You can keep the F and I'll
/ h9 W2 x* @3 W5 t, o0 F) |keep my dream.'' 2 U! j+ S& k1 Y& N: n

! k, k: ^* C8 ~) K* q" a; aMonty then turned to the assembled group and said, 'I tell you this story 1 f. a3 }0 A) X) r% G& Z
because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of / l6 ?+ f4 e  B3 A
my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the
- A. P! b$ d+ wfireplace.' He added, 'The best part of the story is that two summers ago % g. Q( w+ y  j5 N) {! F) n
that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.'   l0 ]2 ^; g" d( r( L2 L
When the teacher was leaving, he said, `Look, Monty, I can tell you this
: Y7 o8 y; P! A( u  Enow. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During 1 [' R  T6 R: d6 F/ n3 G
those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption * O! T( C; j$ J3 G; N* Q
not to give up on yours.’'
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. y* u+ B& P* X; z4 i! `& EDon'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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