My sister’s ten-year-old son came for a visit at the weekend one hot July. And I had to make him stay inside by joining him in a game. An hour later, I suggested that we relax a while. He slipped out of the room and I was catching a few moments of peace and quiet. “Look, Alice,” he said happily as he ran over to the chair where I was having a rest. “I found a kite. Could we go outside and fly it?” Looking out a nearby window, I noticed there was not a breeze( 微风) at all. “I’m sorry, Tripper,” I said, sad to see his blue eyes. “ The wind is not blowing today. The kite won’t fly.” “I think it’s windy enough. I can get it to fly.” He answered, as he hurried out of the back door. Up and down the yard he ran, pulling the kite with a small length of string(绳子). The plastic kite proudly had a picture of Batman(蝙蝠侠). He run as hard as his ten-year-old legs would carry him, looking back hopefully at the kite. After about ten minutes, he came back in. I asked, “How did it go?” “Fine,” he said, not want to admit(承认) defeat. “I got it to fly some.” As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, “I guess I will have to wait for the wind.” At that moment I heard another voice speak to my heart, “Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way instead of waiting for the wind.” And the voice was right. We wait for the wind only after we have done all we can. We must learn how to depend on it in the first place!