湖南省衡南县第三中学2013-2014学年高中英语朗读比赛文字材料：Make Every Moment Count.docVIP

　　One night, I complained to my mom about the lack of time. Finally she said,＂you are short of time just because you waste precious minutes on complaints and anxiety. The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit in some thing more.＂ 　　It is the same with filling the jar. Even if you place a dozen fist-sized rocks and a bucket of gravel into the jar, there is still space for sand and water between the rocks and gravel. 　　Time is the most valuable of all our possessions, but the most perishable as well. As Henry David Thoreau said,＂You must liv