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(Continued from iBlog2.0 contest – Part 2)
iBlog2.0 National Interschool Chinese Weblog Competition, organised by Innova Junior College, co-hosted by Public Library Services, NLB.

This entry is by contestants from Crescent Girls’ School. Check out their blog at 旋舞 蜕变 (xuan wu tui bian).

The title of this blogpost is “a kind of happiness known as satisfaction”. Indeed, the title has said it all.

The main gist of this blogpost is that many of us feels that we cannot be satisfied with what we have. If we were complacent, there would be no room for improvement.

However, we need to re-evaluate ourselves. The author mentions reports on the Sze Chuan earthquake. How a girl was found dead, yet still clutching on to a ball-point pen, and a boy clinging onto a torchlight and a book because he needed to read to ease his fear. These children do not have much choice; they are forced to go with the flow. They can only dream of seeing the world shown in their books.

In contrast, we, the people who live in this metropolitan city, we are constantly dissatisfied, complaining about what we have in abundance as compared to those children in Sze Chuan.

The author concludes that we have forgotten to evaluate ourselves, to see that we should be satisfied with the abundance that we have. Thus, we should be satisfied, and not forget those who are not as fortunate as us.

有一种幸福叫做知足

June 1st, 2008
有一种幸福叫做知足 — 闻四川地震有感
有人说，人不应知足，不知足才能达到更高的山顶。

有人说，人不应知足，一旦知足生活就不再有动力和希望。

可是我们不应一味的不满足，当我们忘记衡量自己的生活，只想着更高一层时，生活就不会再前进。

刚刚看过有关四川地震的报道。有一篇写着，由于不能移开倒塌的楼房，救灾人员只能将一具女孩的尸体吊出废墟，当她出现在人们眼前是，手里依然紧紧握着一只圆珠笔；还有一则报道写着，地震发生后一个小男孩被埋在了废墟底下，他非常害怕。为了缓解紧张的心情，他在废墟下仍然坚持看书。当他被救出来的时候，一手拿着手电筒，一手拿着书本。

生活中到底还有多少像他们一样可怜的小孩子？

当他们仰望天空时，想到的只是要到天的另一头看一眼；当他们在漆黑的夜里，借着蜡烛的微光坚持读书时，期望的只是一定要走到大山的外面，看一看书中写的五彩缤纷的世界。生命，没能给他们太多的选择。他们只能与羊群为伴，与黑夜同眠。但他们却给了自己对于生命最崇高的希望与渴望。他们，是最后的自然守护者，也是最后的天空的眺望者。

生活在大都市的我们，看到天空是又想到了什么呢？

当我们在抱怨上学要背着电脑太重时，有些孩子还在危房里借着蜡烛学着残缺课本上的字；当我们在反感课外活动占用了我们的业余时间时，有些孩子却在拼命地干完农活，挤出时间来学习；当我们在课本上乱写乱画时，有些孩子却在细心呵护着破旧的课本，盼望着能有一本崭新的书。

我们已经渐渐忘记了要衡量自己的生活，面对不断更新的社会，越来越多的人早已想不起要时不时抬头看一下天，看看天空的另一头那一双双稚嫩的双眸。不是没有幸福，只是因为幸福溢满了我们的杯，我们载不下了。

我们有机会选择优越，就请不要再忘记依然有无数的人没有机会却还在一直自己创造机会改变命运。

我们的路还长，一直走会累，累了就歇一歇，停下来看看自己走过的路，我们拥有的其实是一片长满鲜花的田野。请别再想着去摘更多的花，留下一些给别人吧，给那些只拥有小草的人。

祝福你们，那些一直在眺望天空的孩子。

(iBlog2.0 contest – Part 4)

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