On a common morning just inside the entryway to a subway station, a young man took his violin out of its case. He seemed quite common in 1 . Then the man plucked (拨) the strings for minutes to tune his 2 . After that, he reached into his pocket and 3 a few dollars, which he threw into the violin case, hoping that the passers-by would 4 . Then he began to play, and thousands of people were hurrying to work, school, or wherever they were 5 as the morning rush was 6 . Though the incredible sound of this man's violin filled the subway station, it was apparently 7 by all.
If he were any other street 8 , perhaps it would have been 9 that he earned little attention of people. 10 , he is Joshua Bell, one of the world's most renowned 11 , and he was playing one of the most classical masterpieces on his $3,000,000 violin. Actually, almost nobody noticed his playing. Why? One reason is that he didn't look like a special man; the other is that everyone was too busy to 12 Joshua Bell's excellent music.
"I'm busy!" is an everyday 13 from people like those who walked past Joshua Bell's music without 14 a moment. All of this got me thinking: sometimes we should say no to useless busyness and allow for some 15 presence so as to perceive the beauty around us.
