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He was happy to tell them they had got immigrant visa to
Canada. The news made the whole family enthusiastic.
Within a month, they moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Santo continued to go to school there. Today, she is
married and lives well. Whenever she meets her friends,
she remembers the best years of her childhood. She will
never forget the days spent on the meadow.
Parts of our lives can make us happy and content, but why
can it not be permanent? Why can’t we fill the warehouse
of happiness to the brim? Collective happiness makes us
even happier. Imagine the small meadow become as big
as the whole world and make people glow with happiness
every day.
Fear of change is sometimes guided by tradition.
Tradition is voluntary or involuntary reception of the habits
of our predecessors.
Families have established relationships between their
members. The younger family members copy the older
from a very young age. As they grow, the younger
members increasingly look like their parents. In time, life
of the new generation improves, the cars they drive get
better, the tools more sophisticated, living conditions
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