晚上决定看一部电影《It's a Wonderful Life》主人公George在公司面临破产,自己即将入狱的情况下决定跳桥自杀。上天听到了他家人的祈祷,派了一位天使下凡帮助他。天使让他进入一个没有他的世界,George看到那些曾经受他帮助的人在没有他的世界是多么地不一样,这时,他意识到原来自己对这些人有多么的重要。George回到了原本的世界,意识到原来人生是非常美好的。
电影放完,我在想如果我从没出生是不是对很多人都没有影响呢?被送去姑姑家的妹妹应该会更好吧!她会被留在自己家中与亲生父母和弟弟一起生活。我想不起来我还对谁有意义?
决定今晚看这部电影的原因是因为一封邮件。
正挽起袖子准备做晚餐的时候,一声叫唤让我上楼查看一封邮件。我不悦,因为时间过得太快,什么还没开始做便到吃晚饭的时候了,就连做饭也要被打断。踩着楼梯噔噔地响,一屁股坐在电脑前读起了这封“重要”的邮件,皱着眉头不开心的我被这封邮件融化了。
第一封:
Hi Eileen,
I hope you are doing well. I am writing you this email to express my concern about your Youtube account being terminated lately. Couple days ago when I reached to your Youtube account to learn HSK as usual, I found out that your account was being deleted. Was there something wrong with the content or something else? Is there anything we as your followers can do to improve the situation? I just want to let you know that I have learned a lot from your lessons and I found yours is one of the most interesting Mandarin channels that I can find on Youtube. Both the HSK series and the daily life videos series are very beneficial to me.
I hope this email finds you well and if you have plan to rebuild your Youtube channel, please know at least you have my support.
Best Regards,
Lien.
第二封:
Keep up the great work guys! I can feel all the hard work that has gone into your materials, and was sad to see it suddenly disappear from YouTube. That must be tough and I feel you aren't getting the recognition or compensation you deserve for your work, so I wanted to contribute a portion of my first paycheck (of my life :) ) to you guys for your work. I used to listen to your casual conversations while walking between classes, and now that I've finished learning the HSK vocab I will be using your example sentences to help me study. Thanks so much!
祝好!
在我还拥有我的中文频道时,2000多个followers没有让我觉得自己有多特别,忽然一天就消失了,从此安静了。我感叹我的消失没有对任何人有影响,甚至没有人注意到发生的事,我想大家应该习以为常,Youtube上无数个学习视频,他们可以随时转换。
万万没想到,过去的一周时间里,我收到多封邮件问我怎么了,有的人慷慨解囊贡献他们的一份力。第二封邮件里的Cody给我们捐赠了他人生中第一份工资的50美元!这对我来说是万分有意义的,这些人不仅用心地给我们写上一封这样的邮件,而且用行动证明我们对他们的意义。
这让我们对自己做的事业更加有信心,也更加有动力做得更好。
还有要注意的就是发视频,设置关键词时,不要有影响不好的词语,比如关于种族歧视,战争之类的,否则也有危险。