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Every morning, she would wake up and plan what she should do for the day. At night, she would lie in bed as if she had done nothing.
He remembered that when he was young, he always liked to write "Time flies like an arrow, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle". He did not know where he found these words and copied them without understanding them. Whether it was an arrow or a shuttle, in the little heart, today was yesterday, and tonight was last night. It was just the same day, the same night, like a lantern, coming and going, going and coming back, until there was white hair at the temples. However, he suddenly realized that time was really like an arrow, like a shuttle, and would never come back.
So he asked himself, What have I done in the past few decades? He would definitely have to hand in a blank paper in this life.
In mid-August, I visited an 84-year-old scholar in a small town in the United States. In his narrow kitchen, I poured out my inner troubles to him.
He said,"You should seize the present and the future."
I said,"Yes, I'm doing my best. However, I have already wasted decades."
He shook his head." Darwin said he slept too much and wasted his time, but he wrote Natural Selection. Oppenheim said he wasted his time weeding and later became the father of the atomic bomb. Ernest said he hunted, fished, and wasted his time, and finally won the Nobel Prize. Madame Curie said she was busy with housework and children. She wasted her time, but she discovered radium and taught her children to be scientists." I shouted,"These people are all talented! I'm just an ordinary person, a stupid ordinary person!"
" You have the right to judge yourself as a foolish ordinary person. What I mean is to remind you that as long as you have a certain goal, at any time, doing anything will not hinder your thinking and research. It will even help your thinking and research. They think that they have wasted their time, but in fact, they have not wasted it."
"But I'm old."
" When I was 70 years old, I drafted a research plan that would take 10 years to complete. At that time, I talked to a 30-year-old young friend about the plan. He smiled. I know why he smiled. In his opinion, a 70-year-old man doesn't have much time left. What else can he do? Ten years have passed, and my work has been completed as scheduled. I'm still busy in the laboratory." He puffed out his chest and smiled.
"Where is your young friend?" I asked.
" I'm not young anymore. I'm already middle-aged!"
" For him, these ten years should be his golden age. He must have a good record."
" No, he admitted that the past 10 years were blank, a real blank."
"Why?"
" It's still a hustle and bustle life. These 10 years have passed in the blink of an eye."
These words were like a blow to my head. I was stunned.
1. Do you admire the old man in the article? Why?
What did you learn from Charles Darwin, Ernest Hemmingway, and Madame Curie?
What else do you know about them? Write down what you know.
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Answer 1

The time to read the essay was at the moment when the story happened.