Wu Siqi, Class 1, Junior 3, Shenzhen Xin’an Middle School Instructed by Wu Dan, Tang Ying

深圳市新安中学初三（1）班 吴思琦

指导老师：吴旦 汤颖

I’m living in a colorful world and I enjoy every day of my life. Life can always bring me happiness and surprises so I love living in this world. I think the birth of a life is miraculous and sacred. However, there are many people who don’t treasure their lives and give them up easily nowadays, which makes me feel frightened and blue.

Although we have been taught to value our lives since we were born, nobody really cherishes them. Nowadays I hear more and more bad news over and over again. A middle-school student jumped off from a 30-floor building because of study pressure and possibly something unknown to us. A girl killed herself after having an unpleasant talk with her parents because she wanted to punish them in this impressive way. These examples are common and easy to find. Besides, if you pay attention, you will be shocked at how unconcerned the people around you treat their lives.

How could we become so unconcerned about our valuable lives? Isn’t life the most important thing to us? Can we do something to change it? An experience gave me some ideas.

One time my classmate was crying painfully and led me to the rooftop after one of her finals. She received the worst mark in her whole school life. I comforted her and tried to cheer her up but I failed. To my surprise, she told me that she wanted to jump off the building to commit suicide. Then she quickly added, “I’m not that silly! But I really had this terrible thought and wanted to do it. That’s frightening!” I looked at her crying face and realized something.

Everyone will face a terrible trouble one day. Sometimes, you will be too weak to face it and think it over calmly no matter how strong you are, so you may do something stupid to escape from the trouble.

Now we know the reason why people try to give up their lives, but it must be stopped. We have clever brains and can solve any problem, but we can do nothing without our lives.

If you are feeling blue and you feel like destroying everything, you can tell all your problems to your friend or climb up a hill and shout it out. It may help you release your bad feelings and keep you from doing things you may regret.

Life is valuable and it flies fast. If it is gone, it will be gone for good. God gives you the gift of life. Why don’t you treasure it? Life is weak, and it needs to be protected. Life can be strong, and it needs to be cherished.