A father and his son were happy when they saw flowers everywhere and the sky full of colorful kites of all kinds. It was the 1 Festival in Weifang, Shandong. The son wanted to fly a kite, too. The father bought a kite for him.
The son began to fly the kite. Soon, his kite was high up in the sky. After a while, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string (绳子) is 2 the kite from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be free and fly even 3. Can we cut it?" The father cut the string off. The kite started to go higher. This made the little boy 4. But then, slowly, the boy saw that the kite began to 5. It soon fell to the ground. The son was surprised to see this. He asked his father, "I thought that 6 cutting the string, the kite would fly higher. 7 did it fall down?" The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it 8 in the sky. Using the string, you helped the kite go up in the right direction. But when you cut the 9, it could no longer support the kite. "
We may sometimes feel like there are certain things that are holding us back and stopping us from growing. But 10, these might be the things that support us the most.
