某校心理咨询室李老师收到了这样一封信，信中写道：我是这学期跟随到城市打工的爸妈转到这所学校的。由于和同学不熟悉，再加上自己的方言，平日我很少和同学交流。 包括上课时从不举手发言，哪怕我心中已经有了答案。就是偶尔被老师点名，我通常也选择沉默。这一切都是由我不太相信自己引起的， 总怕自己的答案是错的，从而放弃回答的机会。我该怎么办？

    As a student, I was most afraid to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around were just like me. At the beginning of each class, when the teacher asked a question, I always lowered my head because I was afraid the teacher saw me.

    One day, in a foreign language class, Mr. Black gave us a lesson. He wanted us to be active in class, so he asked us some questions, but no one answered. “Let me tell you a story first,” he said.

     “When I came to the United States to study, the university often invited famous people to make speeches. Before the beginning of every speech, I found an interesting thing. The students around me always took a cardboard folded(折叠的) in half, wrote their names in bold(黑体) with the most eye-catching(引人注目的) color, and then placed the cardboard on the seat. So when the speaker needed the answers from the students, he could see it and call a listener's name directly.”

     “I couldn't understand that. My classmate told me the speakers were all top people, who meant chances. When your answer was to his surprise, it meant he might give you more chances. In fact, I really saw a few students got great chances because of that.”

    After listening to the story, I understood that the chance will not find you itself. You must show yourself all the time so that you can find a chance on the card.

    年轻人之所以为年轻人，并不是单看年纪轻。假如是单看年纪轻，我们倒看见有好些年纪轻轻的人，却已经成了老腐败，老顽固，甚至活的木乃伊——虽然还活着，但早已死了，而且死了几千年。

反过来我们在历史上也看见有好些年纪老的人，精神并不老，甚至有的人死了几千年，而一直都还像活着的年轻人一样。所以一个人的年轻不年轻，并不是专看生理上的年龄，而主要的还是看精神上的年龄。