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有时我们真像这风筝啊!上苍赋予我们困境和约束,赋予我们成长和增强实力所要遵从的规则。约束是逆风的必要匹配物。

What is your direction indicator of ascended

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.

Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They soared beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last” free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.

How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.

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check [tʃek]

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n. 检查,支票,账单,制止,阻止物,检验标准,方格图案

联想记忆
ascend [ə'send]

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v. 上升,攀登

联想记忆
mass [mæs]

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n. 块,大量,众多
adj. 群众的,大规模

 
unsympathetic ['ʌn.simpə'θetik]

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adj. 不表同情的,无情的,不共鸣的

 
achieve [ə'tʃi:v]

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v. 完成,达到,实现

 
cumbersome ['kʌmbəsəm]

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adj. 笨重的

联想记忆
mercy ['mə:si]

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n. 怜悯,宽恕,仁慈,恩惠
adj.

 
opposition [.ɔpə'ziʃən]

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n. 反对,敌对,在野党

 
soar [sɔ:, sɔə]

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vi. 翱翔,高飞,猛增,高涨,高耸
n. 翱

 
indicator ['indikeitə]

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n. 指示器,指示剂
[计算机] 指示符

 


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