Monday, Monday
Edited English version based on the Chinese original. Read the Chinese original
Monday seemed to carry over last night’s curse. Finding customers today felt harder than ever, as though I had already met everyone and had nowhere left to go. My mind sounded an alarm. I had also slept badly, so even my greetings lacked energy. It was hardly surprising that people turned me down.
There is a passage in the Bible that I keep thinking about:
There is a time for everything; a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot what was planted…1
Reading can make us more thoughtful; scripture can give us wisdom. Before reading those lines, I might have struggled with a day like this for much longer, asking why things had gone so badly. But no one can remain in the same state forever. Real life rises and falls. “Meet the challenges life gives you,” my teacher told me.
His words came back to me and gave me the courage to regain my momentum and finish work. Looking back, I still have ways to work more actively:
- Sleep better tonight.
- Explore more academic buildings and schools.
- Visit more teachers’ offices.
- Improve how I present and dress myself.
- Keep building my experience and refining my pitch…
Paraphrase; see Ecclesiastes 3:1–2 , New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), jw.org. ↩︎
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