1、Ladies and gentlemen: (Allow me to read a poem first.)First,let me a poem by William Wordsworth entitled “My Heart Leaps Up”:“My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky,So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man. Or let me die.The child is the father of the man.And I could wish my
2、 days to be bound each to each by natural piety.”I dont know if you caught the (sentence)line “the child is the father of the man.” You (might)may wonder: “How could a child be the father of a man? Yes, how?I want to ask you a question:What would you do if you fell on the ground with many strangers
3、around and it hurts? Would you cry instantly if you (feel)felt hurt? Or would you stand up patting your butt and keep going pretending that nothing happened? I do not know your answer, but I do know mine, now the latter, fifteen years ago, the first. Children are free to express their feelings. But
4、we are not. We are not as free as (them) children. We are not as happy as (them)children. We are not as innocent as (them)children. So we can learn from (them)children.I believe that all of us want to ask why adults feel less happy than children. All of us remember when we were children, and how hap
5、py we were at that time. And one thing we cant ignore is that back then we had nothing of high-tech at all. No chatting software like QQ, We chat, No entertainment services like microblog, taobao. We had nothing of high-tech. Besides we knew nothing. We didnt know what love was, what hatred was, wha
6、t English was. We were (like) innocent (idiots)babies, we were, (like silly happy, beyond happy)happy children. I know that we all think the spring festival is more and more boring as we grow older. But when I was little, I had very little snacks to eat, and I just got 1 RMB as my New years money fr
7、om my mother, I assume if she gives me 1 RMB as my New years money now, my response would be: what? Seriously? Youve got be kidding me! Now I can get dozens of that, even hundreds of that. But guess what? I am not as happy as I was back then. And trust me, it is definitely true! And why? Why is it?
8、Because when we grow up, we lost our innocence and purity.I bet you all have heard of this story: a father was busy with his work and he didnt want his little son to interrupt him, so he gave his son a map of the world in small pieces: “I can play with you if you can put it together.” He thought his
9、 son could not make it, thats why he asked him to do it. But a short time later his son came and he did it! The father couldnt believe it, how could this be possible? Even he could not make it! The father asks the son how he did it. The son replied: “Its not difficult, the back of the map is a face
10、of a man, when I put the man together, I put the map together.” Its such a smart boy, right? Cause he isnt controlled by the common thinking way. Adults would just want to complete the map, we wouldnt think of the back of it. We are in a box.(Yes. We are more mature when we grow older. But we also l
11、ose something. We can learn a lot from a child. Remember? A child is the father of the man. How can we learn from a child? Dear friends, think, think hard, I hope you can find your own answer.)1. Is your story long or short enough for a 3 minute speech?2. Your conclusion sounds not so powerful and its not an echo of the beginning. So rewrite your closing paragraph.
