Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives. Not long ago, I had one that I would like to16 .
I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph 17we realized we were 18. Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand new $20 bill. I was so 19because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on 20seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line. 21I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About half way through the meal, I 22I had not actually handed any money to the cashier. I had just 23out, and nobody had noticed, I felt terrible.
My conscience( 良心) opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn’t24over it. I just couldn’t go back to the cashier and25for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I26to give myself the pleasure of an ice-cream for 27that someone would say, “ Hey, Jeff, why don’t you use the change 28the pizza instead of that nice, new $20 bill?” I was not so 29of my cash now.
For the next two years, whenever I was 30of the “pizza incident”, I would say to myself, “ Don’t think about it...”
I have learned two things from this 31. Maybe I was a fool for 32in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a 33pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what you have done, your conscience 34up with you.
This reflect the saying, “ A coward(懦夫) dies a thousand deaths; a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a “35 ” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.
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