In the course of 2019, my first year of high school, there was a time, when I made few friends, always got bad grades and felt that my life was totally dreadful. I must admit that tears more than once streamed down my face at that time. However, just as Helen·Keller said, although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. What made us mightier in the past isn’t applause but the faith, ambition and courage arising from our tears.
在2019年，也就是我高一的时候，有一段时间，我没什么朋友，总是考得很差，觉得自己的生活简直就是一团糟。我必须那段时间承认眼泪不止一次划过我的脸庞。然而，就像海伦·凯勒说的那样，虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难永远都是可以战胜的。使我们在过去变得更加强大的不是人们的掌声而是从我们眼泪中诞生出的信念，斗志和勇气。
So how did I tackle those hard times? The answer I found was to seek for something that can cheer me up. During my first year of high school, I saw a movie called Captain Marvel. One scene of this movie was that the heroine, Carol was forced to recall frustrations that depressed or embarrassed her in every significant point in her life. To my surprise, every time beat by her trouble, Carol tried her best to stand up from the mud again and again, and firmly said that every tough obstruction in her past all completed her, which stimulated me to regain my confidence to confront my weakness. All of a sudden, I was cognizant that every time I could attain courage and confidence to overcome darkness in my life because I was helped by some outside forces such as a touching movie, a cheerful melody, an illustrating book, and so on.
所以我是如何走出那些逆境的呢？我找到的答案是追寻那些可以是鼓舞我，催我奋进的事物。在我高一的时候，我去看了一场名为《惊奇队长》的电影。电影其中的一幕是我们的女英雄卡罗尔被强迫回忆那些在自己每个重要人生节点里使她沮丧或尴尬的挫折。出乎我意料的是,每一次被自己的挫折击败时，惊队一次又一次地拼尽全力从泥泞中站起来，并且坚定地说：过去的每一次挫败都使她的人格更加完整，这激励了我去重拾对抗自己懦弱地勇气。刹那间，我明白了：之所以我每一次能够获得战胜生命中的那些黑暗的勇气与自信，是因为我得到了一些外力的帮助，比如一场感人的电影，一阙振奋人心的歌谣，一本富有启迪意义的书等等。
If you are stuck in your failure, you really should seek for your own beacon. It can be not only just a movie or a melody, but also someone’s behavior that can make your eyes brimmed with tears. Since art or culture is an important channel to pass on values, once they strike a chord with us, we will definitely be brave enough to handle setbacks in our lives. I will never forget the beacon Captain Marvel brought to me, which taught me to be confident and courageous.
若你桎梏于自己的失败，你真的需要寻找属于你自己的明灯。它可以不仅仅是电影或者旋律，也可以是一个人做出的能让你热泪盈眶的举动。由于艺术或者文化是传递价值观的一个重要渠道，一旦他们引起我们的共鸣，我们一定会变得足够勇敢去面对生命中的挫败。我永远不会忘记《惊奇队长》带给我的那盏明灯，它教会我拥有自信和勇气。
Author: Li Huige
Date: August 24, 2022
