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1、英语励志美文 关于孤独励志的英语美文人生就是学校。在那里,与其是幸福,毋宁是不不幸才是好的老师。因为,生存是在深渊的孤独里。WTT整理了关于孤独励志的英语美文,!关于孤独励志的英语美文:On her own, but not alone 她并不孤独Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans.She wasnt married and had no kids, but she didnt intend to be alone-she and all her single friends would move into a ficti
2、onal home she called Casa de Biddies.Instead, Baer developed terminal brain cancer when she was 52.But just as shed hoped, her friends and family provided her with love and care to the end.Baers friends Lee Ballance and Mary Selkirk were walking their dog one afternoon in July 20_6 when they saw an
3、ambulance in front of her house.Baer had had a seizure and collapsed.Ballance, a physician, hopped in his car and followed the ambulance to the hospital to be at Baers side while doctors tried to figure out what was going on.When they did, the news wasnt good: She had glioblastoma multiforme, a part
4、icularly aggressive form of brain cancer.Ballance was only the first of Baers friends who became her unofficial caregivers.Until her brother Phil Baer put his marriage and work in Los Angeles on hold to care for his sister during her final weeks, they cobbled together a system to watch over their fr
5、iend and allow her to keep some of the privacy and independence she cherished.Baers good friend Ruth Henrich took the lead.That seemed natural: Henrich, then 58, and Baer both worked in publishing and lived in the same duple_.Though busy in her job as an associate managing editor at salon., Henrich
6、took Baer to doctors appointments and helped her deal with all the aspects of life that were being increasingly mysterious to her-answering machines, TV controls, and even phone numbers.After Henrich sent out an e-mail request, a group of volunteers signed up to ferry Baer back and forth to radiatio
7、n therapy.Others in Baers circle offered up particular talents: A nurse friend helped Baer figure out how to get what she was due from Social Security and her disability insurance; an attorney pal helped Baer with her will; a buddy who was an accountant took over her bills when she could no longer m
8、anage them.“There was this odd sense that the right person always showed up,” says Ballance.Not that it was easy.“I had to know at all times who was going to be there and anticipate what Marjorie would need ne_t, so it was always on my mind,” says Henrich.“It was something I wanted to do, but it als
9、o never went away.” Still, their jury-rigged arrangement worked remarkably well.Even as Baer lost the ability to read and write and engage in conversation over the course of the year, she was able to continue to live on her own, walk to the market, take the subway to painting classes, and even fly t
10、o Iowa by herself to visit her brother Tom and his family.“She was a generous person,” says another friend, Elizabeth Whipple, “and it came back to her in truckloads.”Unmarried women are one of the fastest-growing demographic groups in America, and increasing numbers of men are remaining single, too
11、; e_perts are concerned about how caregiving will be managed for both groups as they age.If the e_perience of Baers friends is a guide, the Inter will play a role.Its already making it possible to create munities of caregivers who may have only one thing in mon: the person who needs their help.On pe
12、rsonal “care pages” set up through services such as Lotsa Helping Hands, friends and family members can post a list of tasks that need to be done, volunteer to do them, and keep updated on the persons condition.As Baers cancer progressed, for e_le, her friends set up a page on Yahoo! where people co
13、uld sign up to deliver meals or do errands.Eventually, their help wasnt enough.One morning, a year after Baers diagnosis, Henrich checked in before work and found Baer on the floor.Though she wore a panic button on a chain around her neck, she hadnt used it.“I dont know how long she had been there,”
14、 Henrich says.That was when Baers brother Phil stepped in.He and Tom had taken turns earlier making trips to Berkeley to care for their sister; now Phil, who lived in Los Angeles, took leave from his job as head of air-conditioning and heating at CBS Studio Center-and from his understanding wife, Jo
15、yce-to care for Baer full-time.“There was just no question in my mind that I would do anything I could, including switch places with Marjorie,” he says.“It made me realize how much I loved her.”For the ne_t few weeks, Phil looked after her during the day.He oversaw the nighttime caregivers and consu
16、lted with the hospice workers who assisted with medical issues and helped him prepare for Baers death.But even then, his sisters loyal friends were irreplaceable, he says, providing both practical and emotional sustenance.Several of Baers friends were there when she died.“We were all trying to help
17、ease her passing,” says Whipple.“Phil put his hands on her chest, and she let go.”Catherine Fo_, one of the friends who was present when Baer died, was deeply affected.“It was so forting to know that if youre willing to ask for help, the generosity of family and friends can be phenomenal.It makes me
18、 feel secure and hopeful to know that help is there when you need it.”关于孤独励志的英语美文:现代人更感到孤独吗Although Chinese people have gradually bee wealthy more or less due to the reform and opening-up policy,they have oftentimes been troubled by a lack of friends that they can take into their confidence.Thisobse
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