I Got a Prize

The Magazine Positive Thinking

Every year there is a literacy contest held by  a magazine, Positive Thinking  from January to February. It gives a chance armature  writers can show off their writing.  The subject they want is about  warm and moving stories in a daily life. 

The winners are honored with a prize and a medal. I also participated in the event with my wedding day, and then  forgot it for a while. To my surprise I got a phone call  fortunately that my story was admitted as one of winning works. I am very proud that sooner or later it will be printed there.  A medal arrived at home last Friday with a prize.

I wrote what I felt at my wedding.  My mother was the only one missing in my wedding  because she had passed away when I was young.  My father raised my sisters  alone running a farm in the small  village. I could guess how lonely  a life he lived without my mother.   

Seeing his tough life was the most unbearable ever all my life. As you know, the absence of a mother in a family  influences  the growth of children. I  wrote my father's lonely life  in my essay. Probably it might move their minds and bring me a good credit.

Meanwhile, I read 3 best essayes written by other writers. They were also good enough  to be chosen.  And then I read the review a literacy critic had given. In particular, the reviewer mentioned the difference between good and skillful writing.  He pointed out that the former is a sincere attitude in using words and the latter is very artful in expression. I think what he meat is how it  touches people's minds.   

Reading his opinion, I hit upon what I'd like to write. Writing is the best way I heal my exhausting body and mind. Though the future makes us feel anxious, we should go our way like a lion. That's why I keep putting  my life in writing.