石芳宁 经济贸易学院 20159391

If I were …

If I were the ant , I would not exhaust all my time and energy in dull and laborious work . I would averagely arrange my time between leisure and busyness . Since life is a process , not the result . On the road of life , it is the happiness that we try our best to pursue . The lifestyle of devoting ourselves wholly to work might make us miss a lot of beautiful scenery in the journey of happiness . Just like the ant , it spends a hardworking summer gathering its winter store . And it loses the chance to enjoy the sunshine of summer . Now that life of a person is limited , we should cherish the precious time and enjoy life . Our elder generation are as busy as the ant and take every effort to earn money . They are hardworking . decent , respectable and straightforward . After a life of industry and thrift they could look forward to retiring safely . But sometimes in the pursuit of security and peace , they may be scared to admit to themselves what they really want to do , and who they really want to be . It is a big regret that they lose the wonder and freedom of life . Nowadays , with the rapid development of commercial society , the life rhythm of people is faster and faster . We youth also throw ourselves into mundane lives as same as our father generation . As the increasingly keen social competition , too toilsome labor will reduce much spice to our daily life . And then this may lead to decrease the happiness that we ultimately seek for .

Nevertheless , I do not want to become the grasshopper. The fable ends up with the death of grasshopper for lack of food . It comfortably sits on a blade of grass singing to the sun in the summer time so that it only has an empty larder when winter comes . The grasshopper is actually rather typical for the elderly-devouring community emerged in recent years . They tend to have no aims , no plans , no ambition and just drift along . Their basic necessities of life mainly rely on the support of parents or friends . Obviously , this worthless and contemptible lifestyle is doomed to be punished in an imperfect world . As far as I am concerned , I will seek for a balance between work and leisure . I neither want to be the ant----missing the warm sunshine of summer , nor to be the grasshopper----died of starvation. The moderate way may be the most reasonable and correct solution.

第二篇：蚂蚁和蚱蜢