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I believe that humans will always have the ability to rise above any situation, because life is what you make of it. We don’t know what life is or why we are in this world; all we know, all we feel, is that we must protect it anyway we can. Buddha said it clearly: “Life is suffering.” Life is meant to be challenging, and really living requires consistent work and review. By default, life is difficult because we must strive to earn happiness and success.

作者开篇即点出主题，然后论述此观点，并且引用佛陀的名言增强说服力，最后总结人生艰难需努力奋斗从而获取幸福和成功，加强自己观点正当性。

Yet I've realized that life is fickler than I had imagined; it can disappear or change at any time. Several of my family members left this world in one last beating symphony; heart attacks seem to be a trend in my family. They left like birds; laughing one minute and in a better place the next.

这一段是个过渡，作者开篇也提出了一个观点，慨叹生命喜怒无常无法掌控，列举了家庭其他成员生命如何凋零，为后续顺利论述作者主题提供对照，以便给读者一种强烈的选择认同感。

Steve Jobs inspired me, when in his commencement address to Stanford University in 2005, he said "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

这段开头作者引用乔布斯的名言，强调生命有限，思考无限，别浪费于人云亦云，创造的重要性，贴合主题。

I want to make mistakes, because that is how I learn; I want to follow the beat of my own drum even if it is "out of tune." The important thing is to live without regrets, so when my heart ceases to beat, it will make one last happy note and move on.

作者在此段开头亦提出了自己的观点，继续前一段的观点论述尊重自己想法的必要性，烘托开篇主题人类因为创造性而能克服万难。

I want to live my life daily. Every day I want to live. Every morning when I wake up, I want to be excited by the gift of a new day. I know I am being idealistic and young, and that my philosophy on life is comparable to a calculus limit; I will never reach it. But I won't give up on it because, I can still get infinitely close and that is amazing.

这里开头就提出了作者的想法，然后作者说人生哲学是朝着微积分极限前进，着重强调了艺无止境的一个观点，本质上还是切合主题去做论述。

Every day is an apology to my humanity; because I am not perfect, I get to try again and again to "get it right." I breathe the peace of eternity, knowing that this stage is temporary; real existence is continuous. The hourglass of life incessantly trickles on and we are powerless to stop it.

作者仍然延续前面的写法节奏，先提出观点，然后说明论述，强调因为不完美而必须耗尽生命追赶。

So, I will forgive and forget, love and inspire, experience and satire, laugh and cry, accomplish and fail, live and die. This is how I want to live my life, with this optimistic attitude that every day is a second chance. All the time, we have the opportunity to renew our perspective on life, to correct our mistakes, and to simply move on. Like the phoenix I will continue to rise from the ashes, experienced and renewed. I will not waste time for my life is already in flux.

针对以上几段的论述，这里来了一个总结(conclusion)，作者用几组正反词来诠释人生的真谛，继续紧扣主题强调要如凤凰涅槃般前行。

In all its splendor

The Phoenix rises

In a burst of orange and yellow

It soars in the baby blue sky

Heading to that Great Light

Baptized in the dance of time

Fearless, eternal, beautiful

It releases a breathtaking aurora

And I gasp at the enormity.

最后一段作者完全跳脱出了前述行文节奏，用华丽如诗歌般的语言表达出强烈的情感，给读者一种画面冲击，惊叹于生命的巨大力量。

综上，这篇Essay完全符合Type D结构(参考前面微头条 how to write Essay，里有四种Type)，主人公没有经历痛苦遭遇或挑战，也没有明确职业目标，所以作者采用了Montage的手法写作，以主题思想作为联系纽带展开论述，开门见山就抛出主题，然后分小段论述自己的观点，紧紧围绕主题展开释疑解惑式的讲解，让读者在不知不觉中认同了作者的思想观点，加上如行云流水般的表达，旁征博引，文采飞扬，自然水到渠成，不失为一篇经得住推敲的stand-out Essay。(注:此文作者已被Harvard录取)