{"id":6111,"date":"2018-07-17T00:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2018-07-17T00:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:41:35","slug":"love-brings-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6111","title":{"rendered":"Love Brings Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Love Brings Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She gave a sigh, filled with despair.\u00a0 She was devastated and shattered, feeling that her whole world had been collapsed.\u00a0 It was already 9 o\u2019clock in the evening.\u00a0 She should have returned home to have supper by this time.\u00a0 However, she still didn\u2019t dare to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Amy had finished her tutorial class on the day.\u00a0 She had been working hard on her studies non-stop.\u00a0 The school day and the extra class were over.\u00a0 Exhaustion and fatigue ruled over her body, but she didn\u2019t want to go home.\u00a0 She had strict parents, who were especially harsh towards her studies and held high expectations on her.\u00a0 She did study for her best and contribute great effort.\u00a0 Yet her talent wasn\u2019t on studying.\u00a0 She flunked her exams again.\u00a0 The report can was distributed at school that morning.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t want to let her parents down, and even feared the disappointed expressions on her parents\u2019 face after noticing her unsatisfactory results.<\/p>\n<p>Amy didn\u2019t dare to face her parents. \u00a0She had been wandering in the park for almost an hour.\u00a0 The intimidating bellowing and scolding of her parents kept swirling around Amy\u2019s mind. It brought chills to her spine even though it was just her prediction.\u00a0 It was negativity which occupied her mind.\u00a0 Pressure and stress gradually haunted her, as if thousands of stories were stacked and suffocating her.\u00a0 She couldn\u2019t stand them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn\u2019t control herself as the sorrowful tears filled her eyes.\u00a0 She attempted to hold her tears since she felt ashamed of crying in the public.\u00a0 However, she couldn\u2019t help but cry even harder.\u00a0 She sat on a nearby bench and started sobbing and sniveling alone.\u00a0 She could clearly feel her helplessness and incapability in her sorrow but to no one could she express it to.\u00a0 By that time, she only wished for a friend to be by her side and comfort her.<\/p>\n<p>It was simply miraculous that her wish was granted.\u00a0 While she was sobbing the hardest, she felt someone was putting her had on her shoulder.\u00a0 It was a woman who she had never met before.\u00a0 The women patted her with tenderness and care, trying to comfort the crying Amy.\u00a0 With an angelic voice, the woman comforted Amy, \u201cIt\u2019s okay. Girl, please let me stay your side.\u201d It was just a simple action showing care. Amy felt the warmth from deep down her heart. She regained power and strength the he had not obtained for a long time.\u00a0 It was the first time Amy came across this kind of miraculous feeling, which was warm, tender and unforgettable. It must be the great power of love and care.<\/p>\n<p>Amy soon managed to stop crying.\u00a0 The woman grinned at her and asked if she could give Amy a hug.\u00a0 They both hugged each other tightly, creating an unbreakable bonding between two of them.\u00a0 Before the woman left, she gave Amy a bar of chocolate, hoping that it would make Amy feel better.\u00a0 Amy never asked for the name of the lady, but what were still vivid about her in her memory were her angelic and tender voice, as well as the words printed on the woman\u2019s sweater: Love Brings Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Amy never threw away the box containing the chocolate given by the woman on that day.\u00a0 She kept the box with her every day as it represented the gratitude to the woman, reminding her to love others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<strong>Love Brings Hop<\/strong>She gave a sigh, filled with despair.\u00a0 She was devastated and shattered, feeling that her whole world had been collapsed.\u00a0 It was already 9 o\u2019clock in the evening.\u00a0 She should have returned home to have supper by this time.\u00a0 However, she still didn\u2019t dare to go home.Amy had finished .........<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6111\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s3","schoolyear-77"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}