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A Well-Balanced
Life
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A well-balanced
life is necessary to live in today's world. Without a well-balanced
life a person can neither function
properly nor develop into a well-rounded
individual. Without some sort of balance in life people tend
to be unfulfilled
and unhappy. 
Robert Frost (1874~1963)
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved
to New England at the age of eleven and became interested
in reading and writing poetry during his high school
years in the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. His first
professional poem, "The Butterfly," was published
on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
By the nineteen-twenties, he was the most celebrated
poet in America, and with each new book-including New
Hampshire (1923), A Further Range (1936), Steeple Bush
(1947), and In the Clearing (1962)-his fame and honors
(including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased. |
Walt Whitman (1819~1892)
Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island, New York.
He attended grammar school in Brooklyn and took his
first job with the Long Island Patriot. Between 1841
and the summer of 1859, Whitman held editorial positions
on seven different newspapers. During the spring of
1855, at his own expense, Walt Whitman published the
first edition of Leaves of Grass. Today it is considered
a masterpiece of world literature and Whitman is recognized
as America's national poet. |
I've experienced great stress
in my study and work. And I've tried every means to adjust
myself and relieve
my stress. Finally I found a way out in my leisure
time. Leisure time is very important and necessary for me. Without
it I am sure I would go insane.
I spend most of my extra time reading, listening to music, talking
to my real life friends, or talking on the Internet with people
I meet. I really enjoy going out into a quiet place and reading
poetry or
books by Walt
Whitman and Robert
Frost. If I did not make time for all of this I would
not be able to handle
everything else in life. Along with reading to relax,
listening to music is very important to me. If I feel sad, I
listen to slow songs, while if I am happy I like listening to
fast songs. Music is the universal
language and it can express different feelings. It can relate
to the soul, or in fact I think it is the soul of feelings.
My real life friends and my Internet friends are also part of
my leisure and social
time. Friends have always been important to me. They are the
backbone
in everything I do. The good friends that I have are always
there for me in every situation I am in. Without them I would
not have led a healthy, balanced life. Not so long ago I went
through a short time of depression.
I fell behind in all my work and stopped talking to my friends.
After a week of acting this way, one of my good friends pulled
me aside and invited me to go for a walk with her. We talked
about what was going on in my life and she helped me to figure
out what I wanted to do. I do not know what would have happened
if she had not been there.
Many things add to having a well-balanced life. Stress can be
a very dangerous and tiresome
experience. It can lead to depression and unhappiness. But when
it happens, you can do something other than wait, like talking
to your friends or listening to music. Then you may not think
you should have been so stressed and depressed.
A well-balanced life is important to maintain.
Without some sort of balance it is hard to get by in everyday
life. And the creative use of leisure time plays a vital
role.
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