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is it better to change the attitude than to change the circumstance?</p>
<p>I think it is better for us to strove for a better and comfortable circumstance. Although many people think they should be accustomed to situations hat don’t satisfy them, it is true that they could benefit more if they try to change the circumstance they don’t like. The story about my father and Bill Gates will corroborate my statement.
My father was born in a ordinary farmer’s home, strikingly suffered the poverty. Most of people in that village compromised to the poorness, thought that was the destiny and couldn’t be change. Unlike those people, my father believe that he was not born to suffer the poverty, every one could live in a better condition by hardworking and struggling. Therefore, my father studied dedicatedly, when his classmates were playing he was studying, when they were studying, my father studied harder. Consequently, my father was enrolled in by a famous university, learned a lot in that school and still struggling for a better life. Finally, he became a professor and then a influential businessman. He got out of that poor village, escaped from poverty by his own power instead of compromised to the harsh live condition like others.
Here is another great man who changed his circumstance—Bill Gates. Bill Gates was a undergraduate in Harvard, a school that almost every student wants to get in, however, he found he was not accustomed to that school, thought the school limited his ability. It was sure that a few of students in Harvard had the same thought, but they consider the diploma as important as their life and had to change the attitude toward the school. Bill Gates was a exception, although many of his friend thought he was crazy for his decision and persuaded him to rethink about it, he sat his mind to quit the school and founded his now famous company—Microsoft. Now the truth prove that he was right, he won more respect and wealth than he would if he was forced to stay in Harvard.
If my father hold a view that was similar to other villager’s, probably he is a poor farmer making all his effort to survive. If Bill Gate followed other’s advise to stay in Harvard until graduate, maybe he will be a ordinary professor and will not bring us such amazing software. Therefore, I believe that I can get better if I strove to change the circumstance.</p>