Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made adime一角硬币until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-timeavocation嗜好,业余爱好: like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan., was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that hadplagued折磨,困扰her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each momentwholeheartedly全心全意地, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in thefragrance香味,芬芳of a back-yard garden, thecrayoned以蜡笔作画picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.
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