One warm afternoon, the grandmother and her granddaughter were sitting together in the garden, talking. The girl looked at her white-haired grandmother and asked, "Grandmother, are you afraid to leave this world?"
The grandmother smiled at the girl, "I'm not afraid to leave, because I've had a colorful life. " Then she told the girl some of her experiences, looking at a rose in the distance(远方).
When she was a child, there were several children in the family. Her parents worked very hard to support the family. She also worked with her brothers and sisters. Her family was so poor that she had no chance to go to school. But here parents knew that learning was very important. At that time, they let her learn from her sister. So she knew a lot of words and slowly could read some books by herself.
Then when she was 15, she went to work in a factory that made shoes. Far from home, she missed her family very much but she couldn't go home. After a few years, she saved some money. Then she opened a small restaurant. She met all kinds of difficulties, but she never gave up learning and reading. She felt that if she went on with them, she would succeed. When she got rich, she also paid attention to the children in other poor areas. She wanted to give them chances to learn. She always believed that learning will give a person unlimited(无限的) energy.
The grandmother looked at the girl again and said slowly, "So you have to study hard. Cherish(珍惜) every chance to learn. "
