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“The Price of the Four-Leaf Clover”
Lin Xiaoxia felt that she was probably the most unlucky person in the world. On the day of the exam, her pen ran out of ink, her shoelaces broke while she was rushing to catch the bus, and even when she was buying a cup of milk tea, she was knocked over by a passing bicycle. Her friends jokingly called her “bad luck”, and even she herself began to believe that perhaps luck would never come to her. Until her eighteenth birthday, her grandmother took out a silver chain from an old wooden box, with a small four-leaf clover hanging on it, and dark golden lines faintly revealed in the veins of the leaf. “This is left by your great-grandmother.” Grandma put the chain on her wrist, “It is said that the four-leaf clover can bring luck, but it has a rule – don’t be greedy.” Xiaoxia was half-believing and half-doubting, but strangely, after putting it on, her luck really got better. – Missed the bus? The next one was actually empty. – Didn’t review for the exam? The questions on the test paper were exactly the ones she had scanned last night. – Even the lottery at the convenience store, she won the special prize with a random draw. She was ecstatic and felt that she was finally blessed by luck. But gradually, she found something wrong. Her luck seemed to always be built on the misfortune of others. ——On the day she won the special prize, her best friend lost her wallet.
——She performed exceptionally well in the exam, but her deskmate performed poorly because of a sudden high fever.
——She caught an empty bus, but the old lady at the station fell and couldn’t get on the bus. The most terrifying thing was that she found that the golden lines on the four-leaf clover on the bracelet were getting brighter and brighter, as if absorbing something. Grandma sighed: “The four-leaf clover can indeed bring luck, but it will not create good luck out of thin air, it will only “borrow” other people’s luck.” Xiaoxia was stunned. She remembered that her great-grandmother wrote in her diary: “True luck is not pie in the sky, but peace of mind.” The next day, she took off the bracelet and buried it under the old locust tree planted by her great-grandmother. Since then, she still missed the bus, was nervous during exams, and occasionally spilled milk tea. But when she got a scholarship through her own efforts, when she held an umbrella for a stranger on a rainy day, when she stayed up late to review and finally got good grades – she finally understood that luck is not stolen, but created by oneself.
Story moral:
1. Luck is not plunder, but accumulation – real luck is not based on “borrowing” other people’s good luck, but on one’s own efforts and kindness.
2. Greed will bring a price – if you just want to get something for nothing, you may end up losing something more important.
3. Peace of mind is luck – compared to windfall, a down-to-earth life is the real luck.
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