英语经典美文诵读100篇：086.success is a choice
[00:13.65]All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday.
[00:21.18]If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit.
[00:27.64]But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work,
[00:32.56]sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.
[00:38.24]Whether it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones,
[00:42.73]or some other traumatic event in your life these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself
[00:47.79]and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.
[00:51.99]Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time.
[00:56.51]Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it’s lying in wait just around the corner.
[01:03.88]To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self-delusion.
[01:09.36]But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women
[01:14.30]who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit
[01:21.32]and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God.
[01:30.13]Abraham Lincoln overcomes a difficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons,
[01:35.59]and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever.
[01:42.47]Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.
[01:49.37]Franklin Roosevelt had polio.
[01:52.29]There are endless examples.
[01:54.61]These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons
[01:59.22]about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.
