A Great Poem

It may show you how to live a better life:

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive¹. Don't go for wealth; even that fades² away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials³ to make you strong, enough sorrow⁴ to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily⁵ have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.

Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.

And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten⁶ someone's day with this message.

Dear friend: what do you think about this message? Is it great?

1 deceive   

vt.欺骗，使弄错；vi.行骗

参考例句：

• I think this is just a government ploy to deceive the public.我认为这只是政府欺骗公众的手段。
• Don't try to deceive me.你别诳我。

2 fades   

（使）褪去( fade的第三人称单数 )； 逐渐消逝； 逐渐消失； （运动员、运动队、演员等）走下坡路

参考例句：

• Daylight fades when the sun sets. 太阳西沉，天色逐渐暗淡。
• When you turn on a transistorized radio, the sound comes on immediately; when you turn off, it fades out gradually. 你打开晶体管收音机，立刻就有声音，当你关掉它时，声音渐渐消失。

3 trials   

审判( trial的名词复数 )； （对能力、质量、性能等的）试验； 测试； 比赛

参考例句：

• The loss of relatives is among the most frequent trials in life. 失去亲人是人生最常遇到的痛事之一。
• They are doing clinical trials on a new drug. 他们正在做一种新药物的临床试验。

4 sorrow   

n.悲哀；悲痛

参考例句：

• It helps to share your sorrow with someone else.向他人诉说你的痛苦对你是有益的。
• I think she did it more in sorrow than in anger.我觉得她这样做更多是出于悲哀而不是愤恨。

5 necessarily   

adv.必要地，必需地；必定地，必然地

参考例句：

• More work does not necessarily call for more men.增加工作量不一定就要增添人员。
• A voter must necessarily be no younger than eighteen.选民必须在18岁以上。

6 brighten   

vt.使发亮，使开颜；vi.发光，发亮，生色

参考例句：

• Brighten the kitchen by painting it yellow.给厨房涂上黄色，使它发亮。
• She has brighten up my whole life.她给我的整个生活带来快乐。