2 . The COVID-19 pandemic（疫情）has left many worrying about the future. However, I’ve found ____ in my mother^’s one simple self-care ritual（仪式）and I have decided not to keep ____ in a sort of uncertainty.

I was ____ by a single mom who had two kids, two jobs and a mile-long ____ of cleaning, cooking and bill-paying. ____, she was never seen with a hair out of ____. Every morning, she^’d head to a ____, lift her chin（下巴）up slightly, a gesture of confidence, and put on lipstick （口红）____ delivering a forced yet toothy smile. I was too young to ____ why.

My mother ____ her red lips until the very end. In hospital, she asked me to help walk her to the basin to brush her teeth. I stared at her from behind _____ she might fall. 1 was deep in sorrow and uncertainty, tears ____ down my face. Then suddenly, from behind, I sensed that ___ gesture. Chin up. Confidence. A second later I heard the click of the ____.

We don’t know what’s going to happen next. Yet one thing is ____. When the world falls apart, we^’ve ____ got unbelievable power to choose. I'm not suggesting we ____ what^’s around us but focus on what we can control to ____ getting knocked around by uncertainty. Get up and shut the door on anything ____. Just be sure to keep putting that _____on.