Tears... (Please help me correct this notebook, thanks for your help)*

When I was much younger, I had naively thought** that if I ever ran into problems that I couldn’t find solutions to, I just needed to cry before a miracle happened and someone would come to help me. Since then, I have had to face plenty of other difficulties, and I realized that crying doesn’t actually solve anything, while shedding tears only truly served to help me to feel better. Because no such miraculous, problem-solving, “button” truly exist in life, we should always fight and learn how to encourage ourselves to deal with, as well as overcome, our troubles.

Hi Min. Good job! No major issues. Whatever changes I made were more stylistic in nature, done merely to make the passage of time/tenses more distinct (I “read” your statements as being from child, a teenager, and now… apologies if I misunderstood!), to remove the unneeded colon mark, eliminate the “sentence fragment,” as well as to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears. I hope that this helps you. J.

*An ellipsis consists of three dots!

**Quotation marks may be used for "thoughts" as you had done or omitted, but with my rewrite, I did not feel them necessary.

Tears.. ( Please help me correct this notebook, thanks for your help )

Best wishes

Bob

Tears.. ( Please help me correct this notebook, thanks for your help )

When I was a little girl, I thought that if I had any problem that I could not find a solution for, I just needed to cry and some miracle would happen and come to my help. Years later, when I was facing a lot of difficult problems, I started to realized that shedding tears was just a way to help me feel better-- and that miraculous things don't really happen in life. We just have to persevere and learn how to overcome them ourselves.