晨读英语美文 Life Comes in a Package

Life Comes in a Package
[00:12.39]    Life comes in a package. 
[00:15.88]This package includes happiness and sorrow, 
[00:19.01]failure and success, 
[00:21.06]hope and despair. 
[00:23.00]Life is a learning process. 
[00:25.51]Experiences in life teach us new lessons
[00:29.27] and make us a better person. 
[00:31.32]With each passing day
[00:33.51] we learn to handle various situations.
[00:36.86]Love
[00:38.20]    Love plays a pivotal role in our life.
[00:40.97] Love makes you feel wanted. 
[00:43.56]Without love a person could go hayward
[00:47.14] and also become cruel and ferocious.
[00:50.08] In the early stage of our life, 
[00:52.72]our parents are the ones 
[00:54.76]who shower us with unconditional love and care. 
[00:58.12]They teach us about what is right and wrong,
[01:01.57] good and bad, 
[01:03.48]but we always tend to take this for granted. 
[01:06.93]It is only after marriage and having kids 
[01:10.76]that a person understands
[01:12.43] and becomes sensitive to others' feelings. 
[01:14.91]Kids make a person responsible and mature 
[01:18.53]and help us to understand life better. 
[01:21.73]Happiness and Sorrow
[01:23.80]Materialistic happiness is short-lived,
[01:27.67] but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others' face
[01:31.77] gives a certain level of fulfillment.
[01:34.94] Peace of mind is the main link to happiness.
[01:38.14] No mind is happy without peace.
[01:41.26] We realize the true worth of happiness 
[01:44.63]when we are in sorrow. 
[01:46.43]Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one,
[01:50.41] failure and despair,
[01:52.25] but these things are temporary and will pass away. 
[01:55.98]Failure and Success