I was struggling earlier in the year, even though I'm a(n) 1 person by nature. The entire world seemed to have come to a stop all of a sudden. I was 2 with worry about my family and paying the bills, and whether life would ever be the same again.
Then, one evening I went outside and 3 . The sky was dark and the stars were shining so brightly that I almost held my breath. As I stood under that splendid ceiling, I was filled with 4 .
I really wanted to find out more about them. Suddenly, I remembered I'd 5 an app on my phone a couple of months earlier, which 6 all the stars and planets. Together with my daughters, I raced to the upstairs, where we had a perfect 7 of the night sky. Using the app, we were excited to 8 that bright white star hanging over the horizon was Venus. Then we looked past Betelguese, a dying red supergiant star 700 times the size of Earth, and many more. 9 , the world no longer seemed like an unfamiliar place. It 10 me that the Earth had been around for
4. 5 billion years and had experienced things much more 11 . That realization 12 brought my worries into a much broader perspective (眼界).
Plus, that twinkling night sky was just so beautiful — I felt happier and calmer just looking at it. It became our 13 to sit at the window every evening, gazing at the stars. Not only did it help us 14 the reality, but for half an hour each day we got to 15 outside our four walls.
