Catch Fish
There are lots of people ask me, why I never give up on things which seem to be unachievable; for example, at the last minute of the soccer game our goal was 2 to 4, but I still ran as fast as I could to chase the ball and trying to make a goal. I usually smile to them and ask: “Do you want to hear a story?” It is a briefness experience, but changed my views and thoughts on the way of treating every single things happened on me. From that experience I learned a spirit of never give up, because I know what after unceasing failure is succeed.
A very normal summer afternoon, sun rise high in the sky and cicadas sing loudly as they usually do. Wind blow throw a boy’s face, but it can hardly take the worries out of his face.Who is he? Why is he so worried? Yes, that boy is me. I am 10 years old and I have to prepared food for my pets, two big fat green tortoises, because my parents went out for buying furniture this morning, and leave the work to take care of two tortoises to me who is too lazy to go far away with them.We usually feed tortoises twice a week with shrimps or little fish. However, it is a really hard work for a boy who is lazy, wants to stay at home to call a taxi and buy food for tortoises from the mall. Nonetheless, an idea appeared in my mind. I can catch fish in the lake in our neighborhood instead of go out and buy it. Then I can have fun with catching fish meanwhile I save the money and don’t need to travel a long way to the mall. I am surprised about how smart the idea is,and immediately I jump in to action; I grab a fishnet, a bucket and rush though the lake.
“Hum”A small figure jump on a big rock which is laying besides river; Go though a racing to the lake I stand on the highest object near the lake and trying to find out where are the fish. Unfortunately, the fish seem drive away by the hot weather and sunshine; They all sink in the deep water ot hiding under rocks in the water which I can’t reach by my fishnet. That means the mission of catching fish become impossible, and I need to consider about going back home. However, I don’t want to quit without trying and nobody wants to travel 2 hours to the mall in this sweating weather; I force myself to jump into water and start a chasing game after the fish. First, I will throw stones in to the lake to scared fish out of the deep water; Then, I will dive into the water and catch the fish easily. That is my plan for grasp the fish. Nonetheless, after I dive into the lake, several problems appear. I can’t open my eyes in water which means I can’t aim with my eyes; I can’t wave fishnet as fast as I can on the ground which means fish can escape easily from my fishnet; Also, although the action of throwing stones scared the fish, it force them even more far away from the shallow water and hide deeper under rocks.The thought of my plan is wonderful, but the truth is I can’t achieve it. I feel so helplessness and disappointed, so I am thinking about going to mall. However, there’s another voice in my mind told me that I can’t let the time I spend on catching the fish become a fool’s errand. Suddenly, while I am doing ideological struggle about leave or not, a huge piece of dark clouds cover the sky. Small drops of water start to fall down from the sky. The fish which hide deeply in the lake get out; They swim to the surface of the lake and breathe the air bring by the rain. “Yes !” I know that my tortoise food is well prepared. The feeling of exuberance and rejoiced come into my heart; I am glad that I stay to the last and greet the came of succeed; “It is not just about luck!” I told myself. If I don’t stay till the rain comes, I may be on the way to the mall now. From that on, whatever how difficult or unreachable the problems are, I try my best to fight for the solutions, because I know if you don’t stay to the last minute, you never know it is a succeed or not.
“How do you feel about my story?” I always ask this question to the audience. However they seldom give me the feedback; they are falling into the deep thought of how many mistakes they have made before which estrange the succeed just a small distance beside them. I smiled and left. I don’t know when is the succeed going to come, but I know after countless failure it will come unless you give up on half of the way. Therefore from the experience of catching fish the spirit of never give up will brand to my mind remind me to the end of my life.
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