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3月31日
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While popular in the US, the April Fool's Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries, such as France and Great Britian. Although the roots of the traditional trickings are unclear, the French and British both have claims on the origin of the celebration.
One theory holds that the frist April Fool's Day was on April 1 of the year when king of France instituted the new calendar. This new system placed the day that had formerly been the first day of a new year on April 1. Many people were reluctant to adjust to the new calandar and continued to celebrate New Year's Day on what had become the first day of April. Thus, they become the first April fools. Others began to give gag gifts on the day to mock the foolishness of those who continused to celebrate the new year on April 1.
An English story about the day, however, holds that it began sometime, during the 1200s. At the time, King John of England was in the habit of making a road out of one particular farm village were aware of this. To avoid having their green village were aware of this. To avoid having their green meadows and pastures disturbed with one of the king's roads, they built a fence that prevented the king from walking through their countryside. The king sent group of messengers to inform the villages that they must remove the barrier. Upon hearing that the king was planning to do this, however, the villagers developed a plan of their own. When the messengers arrived, people behaving in a bizarre manner, throwing things and running around wildly. The messengers, alarmed at what they had found, reported to king John that these people were so mad as to be beyond punishment. So, the villagers saved their farmland by tricking the King. In Great Britan, trandition only allows April Fool's tricks from midnight to noon on April 1. Those who try to play tricks in the afternoon become the fools themselves.
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3月21日
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of minf; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, and a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than aboy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-disteust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station:so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
when the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
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3月11日
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Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for the missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the floweres along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of aifferent pieces, but none of then fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the ciecle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to rolll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the worms. When it reallized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away. The lesson of the story ,I suggested, was that in some strange sence we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him ,give him something he has always wanted or never had… |
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