“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
　　“Why don’t you just take up swimming?” the doctor asked. I was twenty years old, single-minded in my pursuit of a dance career, but the tendinitis had forced me to give up my dream. Surely, I didn’t follow the doctor’s advice. I couldn’t really invest myself in anything else, because surely I might be able to start dancing again at any moment, and I refused to do anything that might jeopardize that possibility. I was unable to dance, but I was unable to move on either.
　　Thankfully, I eventually did move on. It took about five years, but I finally accepted that a career as a dancer was not in the cards. I found to my surprise that my chances for happiness had not died along with my dream of being a dancer. Someone says that when the Universe closes a door, it opens a window, and I definitely found that window! I found a circus school about an hour away, enrolled in an aerial arts class, and for the next year I did dance in the air. What if, for example, I had discovered aerial arts at twenty instead of twenty-five? What if I had opened my mind to the possibility of a completely different passion? Perhaps, many people had similar experience with me. It’s not always easy to move on and to see the window that the Universe opens after closing a door. It can be hard to keep an open mind when things go terribly wrong, but the happiest people do just that. Challenging as it is, I know it has done us great good to let go of the attachment of how I think things “should” be.
　　Vocabulary
　　tendinitis n. 肌腱炎
　　jeopardize v. 危及，危害
　　circus n. 马戏，马戏团
　　aerial adj. 空中的
　　attachment n. 依附
　　（不要抱怨生活的不公和困难，带着一份豁达的心态，你也能找到自己的那扇机会之窗。）郭婕改编