晚上決定看一部電影《It's a Wonderful Life》主人公George在公司麵臨破產,自己即將入獄的情況下決定跳橋自殺。上天聽到了他家人的祈禱,派了一位天使下凡幫助他。天使讓他進入一個沒有他的世界,George看到那些曾經受他幫助的人在沒有他的世界是多麽地不一樣,這時,他意識到原來自己對這些人有多麽的重要。George回到了原本的世界,意識到原來人生是非常美好的。
電影放完,我在想如果我從沒出生是不是對很多人都沒有影響呢?被送去姑姑家的妹妹應該會更好吧!她會被留在自己家中與親生父母和弟弟一起生活。我想不起來我還對誰有意義?
決定今晚看這部電影的原因是因為一封郵件。
正挽起袖子準備做晚餐的時候,一聲叫喚讓我上樓查看一封郵件。我不悅,因為時間過得太快,什麽還沒開始做便到吃晚飯的時候了,就連做飯也要被打斷。踩著樓梯噔噔地響,一屁股坐在電腦前讀起了這封“重要”的郵件,皺著眉頭不開心的我被這封郵件融化了。
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!
在我還擁有我的中文頻道時,2000多個followers沒有讓我覺得自己有多特別,忽然一天就消失了,從此安靜了。我感歎我的消失沒有對任何人有影響,甚至沒有人注意到發生的事,我想大家應該習以為常,Youtube上無數個學習視頻,他們可以隨時轉換。
萬萬沒想到,過去的一周時間裏,我收到多封郵件問我怎麽了,有的人慷慨解囊貢獻他們的一份力。第二封郵件裏的Cody給我們捐贈了他人生中第一份工資的50美元!這對我來說是萬分有意義的,這些人不僅用心地給我們寫上一封這樣的郵件,而且用行動證明我們對他們的意義。
這讓我們對自己做的事業更加有信心,也更加有動力做得更好。
還有要注意的就是發視頻,設置關鍵詞時,不要有影響不好的詞語,比如關於種族歧視,戰爭之類的,否則也有危險。