Falling and Standing up
I believe that the greatest honor comes from standing up after you fall.
I’m a teenager student of Shanghai United International School, Wanyuan campus.
When I was about 5 years old in kindergarten, my dad told me that, I had to stand up by myself after I fall. However, when every time I fall, my mum always pulls me up. I thought here was always a person to help me stand up again.
When I was in grade 3, I went to a park with my grandfather during winter. He stopped to watch two old men playing chess. I didn’t notice my grandfather was gone. I kept walking. Suddenly, I slipped and fell on the frozen surface of the lake. The ice broke and I sank into the freezing water. I pulled myself out of the water, freezing and wet. Luckily, I’m still alive. Nobody helped me. Since then, I changed my opinion about fall and stand up. I learned how to solve the problem by myself.
Last year, during a performance of the play, Mid-Summer Nights’ Dream, there was an emergency. During the second act, the scene where the fairy queen who flirts with a man with a donkey head that she had fallen in love with after being infected by a magical flower. As the character of Demetrius, I was supposed to have been sleeping with three others at the back of the stage until the end of the act, but I was off stage instead. It was a serious mistake. Charlene, who played Lysander, was upset, because she thought that we would not be successful in this performance. I said to her. ‘Well, calm down! Everything will have a solution! Maybe we can try to switch scene 6 and scene 7! Just take a chance!’ In the end, my plan worked perfectly. Nobody in the audience noticed the change.
Nelson Mandela once said that the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This theory works not only when slip and fall on the ice, or when forget to do your part in a play, but also in life.
This I believe.
I believe that the greatest honor comes from standing up after you fall.
I’m a teenager student of Shanghai United International School, Wanyuan campus.
When I was about 5 years old in kindergarten, my dad told me that, I had to stand up by myself after I fall. However, when every time I fall, my mum always pulls me up. I thought here was always a person to help me stand up again.
When I was in grade 3, I went to a park with my grandfather during winter. He stopped to watch two old men playing chess. I didn’t notice my grandfather was gone. I kept walking. Suddenly, I slipped and fell on the frozen surface of the lake. The ice broke and I sank into the freezing water. I pulled myself out of the water, freezing and wet. Luckily, I’m still alive. Nobody helped me. Since then, I changed my opinion about fall and stand up. I learned how to solve the problem by myself.
Last year, during a performance of the play, Mid-Summer Nights’ Dream, there was an emergency. During the second act, the scene where the fairy queen who flirts with a man with a donkey head that she had fallen in love with after being infected by a magical flower. As the character of Demetrius, I was supposed to have been sleeping with three others at the back of the stage until the end of the act, but I was off stage instead. It was a serious mistake. Charlene, who played Lysander, was upset, because she thought that we would not be successful in this performance. I said to her. ‘Well, calm down! Everything will have a solution! Maybe we can try to switch scene 6 and scene 7! Just take a chance!’ In the end, my plan worked perfectly. Nobody in the audience noticed the change.
Nelson Mandela once said that the greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This theory works not only when slip and fall on the ice, or when forget to do your part in a play, but also in life.
This I believe.