该句使用过去进行时表达持续性的行为动作。
Yes, those were the years of both pain and joy. At that time, I pursued perfection and was perhaps too stubborn, so I always placed great importance on grades and rankings. Many nights I lay awake, unable to sleep, and often felt an emptiness inside. The gap between dreams and reality made me cry and sigh...
However, every night during self-study breaks, I would go to the playground to run a lap without fail, reflecting on my inner self. After wandering thoughts, I would gradually calm down and keep moving forward, silently repeating: “If pride is cruelly knocked down by the vast sea of reality, how else would one understand how hard they must work to reach the distance.” Even after sleepless nights, I still forced myself to attend every class despite headaches, slowly adjusting my biological clock. Later, I kept listening to the song “The Original Dream.” Even after hearing it countless times, it still brought me to tears, yet I could also “walk along, humming a song with light steps.”
In fact, what helped me stay calm during those difficult days was also one person—my most important person in my heart, my mother. It was she who quietly did everything she could behind the scenes, gently comforting me when I was anxious or sleepless, always telling me to believe in myself.
是的，那是痛并快乐着的岁月。那时的我往往追求完美，或许是过于执着，因此对分数与名次总是看得很重。许多个夜晚辗转难眠，很多时候心里突然感到空落落的，理想与现实的差距让我流泪叹息……
但每天晚上自习课间，我都会风雨无阻地去操场跑一圈，审视自己的内心。徘徊之后总能逐渐平静下来，继续前行，默念着“如果骄傲被现实的大海冷冷拍下，又怎会懂得要多努力才能走到远方”。失眠之后依旧强忍头痛努力听好每一堂课，慢慢调整自己的生物钟。后来，仍然会听那首《最初的梦想》，听了无数遍依旧会流泪，却也能“边走着，边哼着歌，用轻快的步调”。
其实，那段岁月里让我在失落时能够安静下来的，还有一个人——我心中最重要的人，我的妈妈。是她在背后默默做好一切能做的支持，在我烦躁和失眠时温柔安慰，永远对我说相信我。