多谢指正！打不死的马拉松精神plus错误多多雷S银：
My purpose of learning English is that I hope I could communicate with my clients and my boss fluently with less misunderstandings. The ways I have tried to reach my purpose are, beside improving my skills in reading, writing, intonations and pronunciations, I also manage to learn expressions via talking with native English Speakers.
My determination for achieving my goal seems to be strong and unbeatable in the eyes of my friends. It is not because the sky is not limit for me, it is because my recent schedule allows me to squeeze some time to improve myself. So to help myself to make a difference, lately I have been writing at least one article per day and have never skipped reading the Great Gat*****y that has been a sort of hot patootie in the forum. Speaking of reading this book, although so far I have encountered quite a few new words and expressions that always drive me frustrated, especially when I was very tired and could not keep my eyelids from fighting against each other, I still did not want to give it up. I found that splashing some cold water on my face or drinking some hot coffee really could keep me away from drifting off and help me keep reading for a few more mintues. Isn`t it normal to go through a lot of frustrations when it comes to study a difficult book like this one? I realized that it is not like practicing my Marathon running, that I could manage to choose a shortcut as I wish. I believe that there is no shortcut in learning a language beside working hard to make a progress little by little.
Through learning English I have learned something useful for life, too. As an adult, I study at no one`s bidding, of course. I am independent and responsible for myself and my behaviours, and I know that I should improve myself only but other people's behaviours, and I never should give it a try. My strong motivation of improving my English can be traced back a few years ago when I was working for a call center as a customer service representative and a property management office as an Executive Assistant 2 years earlier. Things that I will forget are, in the call center, one of my customers asked me twice to go back to learn more English in an extreme mean voice over the phone, and the property manager stared at my eyes and said how much she had been disappointed with my bad English. Facing those insults I was speechless. I comforted myself that maybe the customer was so frustrated by the wrong bill he had received so he took it out on me, and my boss, she must be stressed out through her divorce case. However, I admitted that I was not able to use English effectively as others including those people whose English is their second language. It is that customer and my former boss helped me realize how bad my English was, and still is not good till now. I never want to recall those unhappy experience until recently. That day, out of my expectation, I received a very offensive message in my post, I was mad and was about to say something back to protect my dignity. However, a friend of mine comforted me and she asked me to remain calmed, she said that because maybe that person had been stressed out at his work and he just wanted to take it out on me, so do not even give it a damn. The more I pay attention to what he said the more he would get excited. When nobody pays attention to him he would be dead like a dead duck . I thought my friend was right. Let those who have unfriendly mindset take their time to calm down. I am not able to have the control over those who like to hurt other people's feelings , but I can manage myself not to give people those villainous words that could be even more hurtful to myself, if I am in an unhealthy mentality.
There are still a lot out there for me to learn, not only English. No matter what, I think as long as I can manage to hold a positive attitude toward learning, and be respectful to everybody in the learning environment.,I will be respected as well. Learning is like rowing boat in a river where is not always peaceful and quite, sometimes I need to prepare myself for the currents as well. Anyway, where there is a will there is a way, and it is a good idea not to throw stone at my neighbors' windows when I am living in a glass house. Dear friends, do you agree with me? Many thanks and gratitude to all who have helped me a lot!
