【推荐3】I loved weightlifting and began to do that at 12 years old. During my first year of high school, increased the amount of training and put everything into my dream to one day compete internationally. Unfortunately, I was not a naturally-gifted athlete. But I worked hard. When I was a senior in high school, I won two national championships and earned nine national-level medals in all.

However, I didn’t make it to compete for Team USA. I didn’t meet the requirements for the IWF Youth World Championships team and was later an alternate(侯补者) for the Pan-American Youth Championships team. I struggled to accept the fact that I never achieved the one goal I worked for during the last four years, representing Team USA internationally. I lost the passion I once had for the sport and took a step back from competing for a few months.

After I started college, I once again came into contact with barbells(杠铃) during my PE classes. Once I touched the barbell again, I just wanted to continue lifting weights and see how far I could physically and mentally push myself. I decided to start training full-time again to see what I could achieve during the rest of my college years.

I stopped caring about the weight on the bar, the girls I was competing against and the idea of being on Team USA. I started focusing on being confident and consistent with every lift-training with consistent weights on the barbells, skills and positive self-encouragement. Training and weightlifting became a competition with myself, rather than with other weightlifters.

During University Nationals 2022, I represented Temple as a university student. It was the first competition in my eight years of competing where I felt confident during every lift. The work I put into the six minutes spent on the lift paid off in every way. Later, I became a 2022 All-American athlete and finally made my first international team.

【推荐1】When dealing with a depressed family member, it can be hard to know how you should act and what you can do to help. If you want to get along with your depressed family, you should know how to approach them.

    1     . If you have figured out that one family member is struggling with depression, it can seem like you have something to do with it. But it's not your fault.     2     . To be available to this person and help him, it is important to understand that it's not personal.

    3     . When you are talking to depressed family members, you have to keep in mind that they are dealing with an actual physical problem. It can be tempting to blame their mental disorder on decisions they have made, but recognizing that it's not their fault can help you be more supportive.

You should offer support. Your support is one of the most valuable things you can offer someone with depression. Offering to let someone with depression talk about what they are feeling without judging them is an important part of recovery.     4    

You should help them build a support system.     5     . You can get in touch with your friends to see if any of them have had depression and to see if they can talk to your family member.

【推荐2】When people ask me where I grew up, I can never give a solid answer. I’ve moved nine times in six different states and have never lived somewhere consistently for more than 3 years. Throughout all these moves, houses would change, schools would change, and even friends would change. However, family was always a consistency in my life. Not just my family physically, but also the emotional support and love that they provided. As a result of this, family has become a value that I hold essential to my life and my identity as a person.

Almost every big decision I can think of has involved my family. One such decision is whether I wanted to accept my job offer. It’d be my first time moving away from home and truly being on my own in a long term setting. I relied on my values of family to make the decision easier. For one, the company I chose to work for held family values in extremely high regard, which really resonated(共鸣)with me. The location of my job is also somewhere that’s highly rated for raising a family, which I plan on doing sometime in the future. The fact that this job coincides (重合) with my family values so well made the decision to accept that much easier.

Five years from now, I expect this value to involve many other values. I want to learn to value not only my own family and idea of it but other people’s idea of family as well. I imagine that I will continue to live my life based on the family value I’ve come to known growing up, but also begin to form my own idea of the family value. These new ideas will grow.

【推荐1】A little dog, rescued by the East Haven Fire Department, has been adopted by the fire station. Named Riggs, this little dog greets everyone warmly, uplifting the firefighters after a hard day’s work. In his new home, Riggs is busy being a friend, a town celebrity, and a mascot (吉祥物).

The six-month-old dog was rescued from a hot car that was parked by the East Haven Town Beach. The inside temperature of the locked car was 50℃ on that August day. Yet the little dog, taken to the East Haven Animal Control, was healthy after this terrible experience.

Everyone fell in love with this little dog and wanted him. When it was finally decided that the fire department could keep him, the next important step was to give him an appropriate name. The entire town became involved online in selecting a name from a list of names and Riggs, a common word for a fire truck, was chosen. Riggs fit right in with the firefighters, and Fire Chief Matthew Marcarelli.

Marearelli described how seeing Riggs, a support dog now, actually changed the mood of tired staff after a long day of work. He explained that station support dogs are becoming increasingly popular as they assist with the mental health and well-being of first responders. Cute and friendly, Riggs also offers distraction to the first responders. “We see a lot of misfortunes and some folks try to internalize them. We have ways of dealing with them and he’s going to be one of these ways to help us,” Marcarelli said.

Called the rescuers’ rescue, Riggs is loved by all and has a special place in Marcarelli’s heart. Riggs now has a loving home and often carries out the duties with them. He even has his own fire hydrant (消防栓).

【推荐2】Throughout history, many of the world’s greatest artists never achieved tremendous fame until after their death. That’s the case of Vivian Maier, who’s now considered to be one of the most important American street photographers of the last century, alongside famous names like Diane Arbus and Henri Cartier-Bresson. But she remained unknown for much of her life, and it was only a chance encounter with a box of negatives that put her in the spotlight.

Details of her life are unclear, but she was born in New York City in the 1920s to European parents. Maier grew up in France before returning to the U. S., where she spent several decades working as a nanny in Chicago to wealthy families. During her days off Maier is thought to have taken more than 100, 000 photographs of people and city scenes in Chicago, yet she kept the photos to herself-many of them never developed.

Skip ahead to 2007, a Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, came across Maier’s work by accident after purchasing a box of tens of thousands of undeveloped negatives for $380 Sat an auction (拍卖) . As he developed them, Maloof realized they were more than just photos. He was looking at evocative (唤起) art illustrating a Chicago of the mid-20-century that nobody had never seen. Maloof worked to uncover who the photographer was, acquiring more and more of her work. But before he could locate her, Maier had already passed away in 2009, having slipped on ice and never recovering from her head injury.

While Maloof researched Maier’s work, more details emerged. She kept to herself, her employers said, and she would spend her free days taking photos on the streets of Chicago with a Rolleiflex camera. According to Maloof, the children Maier took care of knew she was constantly taking photos, yet she never showed her photos to anyone. Maier also traveled around the world, as indicated by some of her photos.

Other collectors began to acquire Maier’s photos, but Maloof owns much of her work. He released a book, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, in 2011, and his documentary, Finding Vivian Maier, came out in 2013.

【推荐3】I was a recent graduate of a leading business school and I was to join a big company in Gomia, Bihar. The company chose only the best, and I was full of it.

The night train from Calcutta would reach Gomia in the morning. I had a letter that said there would be a car to pick me up from the station and take me to the Guest House. However, I found no person in sight to receive me when I got off the train. I felt let down. I carried the luggage on my shoulder and came to the exit. There I saw a nice car. The driver was walking towards the car .Ah, my driver, there he was!

I went up to him and asked him to carry my luggage. He asked me who I was and I introduced myself. The driver opened the back door and had me seated. Along the way, he asked me some questions about me and my family. I was angry with the driver who asked too much and answered him in monosyllables (只言片语). After reaching the Guest House, we said goodbye.

The next day was a big day. I was to meet the boss of the place, Dr. S. K. Kamat, and I was nervous. I knocked on the door and walked into the large office. The big man had his back to me and as he turned, I recognized the man immediately. He was the driver!

He gave me a broad smile and said he was S. K. Kamat. I could have died at that moment. I apologized for my behavior and was at a loss for words. He said that he had come to the station to see off a friend. And he had seen me and wanted to be of assistance. He never referred to the incident almost as if it didn’t happen. When I walked out of the office, I learned a great lesson.