3月14日北美
Does self-discipline make fun out of life?
题目解析：
2015年3月14日SAT考试写作真题与范文，希望对各位考生的备考有所帮助，祝每位考生考试顺利，都能取得好成绩!
这道题目中的关键词是“自律”和“乐趣”，需要我们考虑关于自律和生活乐趣的之间关系。
首先，自律是人控制自己思想行为的能力，而快乐是一种内心感受。那么，自律的人缺少快乐吗?不自律的人一定快乐吗?快乐究竟是什么?回答了这些问题，我们自然就会得出自己的结论。
下面这篇范文，认为自律的人通常更快乐，因为自律可以帮助他们管理好自我健康，工作，乃至家庭和社会关系，从而增进幸福感。文章进而退一步补充说，尽管有人认为自律的人过于约束自己，不能随性地享受生活乐趣，但是，随心所欲带来的乐趣往往并不持久，因为现实是残酷的，放纵的结果往往是接受现实的惩罚，快乐即被剥夺。
最后下结论，自律的确能给生活增添乐趣，让社会繁荣稳定，人们更加幸福。
写作范文
As the old saying goes, freedom is about dancing in chains. Without an active regualtion of self behaviors, one can either go to extremes or be accustomed to addiction, laziness and procrastination, ending up with failures and depression. On the contrary, being self-disciplined can help us well manage our life and achieve happiness. In reality, many truly happy ones are self-disciplined while the willful ones simply enjoy short-lived happiness.
Being self-disciplined is not contradictory to achieving fun of life; rather, it often helps improve our sense of happiness. As we know, there are many distractions in life, which may lead us away from our goals of life. Self-discipline serves as a defendence against the alluring world and enables us to keep calm and focused on our goals. According to Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, there are some major factors determing a person’s sense of happiness, such as health, relationships, living standards and satisfaction with work. Therefore, happiness is about a good management of these aspects of life and self-discipline helps us to achieve this goal. A self-disciplined person can control his or her diet, staying away from the worry of obesity and health problems. A self-disciplined person can also be well focused on work and strive hard to make progress, which helps improve living standards and meet family and social expectations. In other words, self-discipline contributes to our life satisfaction because it helps us regulate our behaviors and keep us on the right way.
Perhaps someone may argue that those self-disciplined ones are always uptight and prudent, restraining their instincts and desires so that they may miss much fun of life. However, in more serious consideration, we may find the willful moments to be only instant pleasures in life, which are fragile and easily destroyed by the harsh reality. Jimmy Moore, once an over-weight man in America, is a case in point. Since Jimmy was a child, he had been addicted to snacks and he could not get rid of this poor habit even after his marriage. At first, he did not realize the severity of an immoderate diet and he enjoyed the appetizing snacks and high-sugar foods so much that he could not reject them. Unfortunately, the pleasure of an indulgent diet only gave him temporary joy. As a result of obesity, he suffered high blood pressure and even breathing problems; worse still, he was sneered for his tremendously fat body, which not only worried his wife but also deprived him of self-confidence and buried him in deep depression. It is true that sometimes undisciplined people are not aware that they are sacrificing long-term happiness for immediate pleasure. However, in the end, the wanton behaviors will deprive them of all their pleasure.
In a short nut, just like a football match without rules is not worth watching, life without self-regualtion produces no sweet fruits. Being out of control mentally or behaviorally might be enjoyable for the time being; however, in the long run we will find that the truely happy ones are those who do well in managing their own life and taking charge of their own actions. If everyone keep self-discipline, our society would be orderly and flourishing with achievements and our life would be much more fun.