phần 2 Đây là những câu chuyện nổi tiếng đang được lưu truyền trên Internet, từng được mọi người trên thế giới và bạn trẻ Việt Nam chuyền tay nhau, gửi qua email như một sự chia sẻ tinh thần, truyền cảm hứng hay động viên nhau trong những lúc khó khăn của cuộc sống - Đây là bộ sưu tập những câu chuyện đó bằng tiếng anh nhằm giúp các bạn vừa trao dồi kiến thức tiến anh vừa làm giàu thêm tinh thần của mình . | CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL Anh ngữ Phần 2 Be happy If you have a bad day at work be thankful. Appreciate that you have a job. Some people don t. When you pay your bills be thankful. You can pay them. If you see a gray hair be thankful. Think of the cancer patient in chemotherapy who only wishes for any hair. When you find yourself waiting in line or the recipient of poor service be thankful. Think about the people who have no food to eat at all. When you realize how much work it is to take care of a house be thankful you have a house. Think about those who only wish they had a house to take care of. When you feel like complaining because you have to walk a long distance from your car be thankful. Think of what it would be like not to be able to walk If you get irritated by other people s anger apathy ignorance bitterness or insecurities be thankful. Things could be worse. You could be one of them When you think everything in your world is terrible and you want to give up think of the people who have been told they only have a certain amount of time to live. They don t want to give up. Good to Be Home Years ago when my three boys were just wee ones my old high-school friend Marge invited me to lunch at her home in a nearby upscale subdivision. She was a teacher had never married and had recently purchased a condominium. The minute I walked into her home I knew there was something different about it but I couldn t quite put my finger on what it was. I put my finger on the kitchen counter while admiring her tile and realized what was so different. The counter wasn t sticky. Upon closer inspection I saw that there wasn t any peanut butter oozing down the kitchen cabinets no Kool-Aid puddle on the floor or cookie crumbs on the place mats. No one had left the half-gallon carton of milk out or put the mayonnaise back in the fridge without the lid. After lunch we sauntered into Marge s living room to sip our coffee and reminisce about the good old days and ponder whatever .
