生命的功课

她，是我广州办公室的房东。细心、体贴之中，又略带精明，总是倍儿精神！一身休闲装，背了双肩背包，清新的就象夏日的早晨。

后来，才知道，原来她的生活也有风雨。

一般，我的博客中是很少有转帖的东西的。或者，是最近的心情比较低落；而碰巧遇到了那个微笑着的她从遥远的那个半球发过来的这篇文章，触动了我的心。

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> Lessons on Life 生命的功課
>
> There was a man who had four sons.
> He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly.
> So he sent them each on a quest, in turn,
> to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
> 有一個人，他有四個兒子。
> 他希望他的兒子能夠學會不要太快對事情下結論，
> 所以，他依次給他四個孩子一個問題，
> 要他們分別出去遠方看一顆桃子樹。
>
> The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring,
> the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
> 大兒子在冬天前往，二兒子在春天，
> 三兒子在夏天，小兒子則是在秋天前往。
>
> When they had all gone and come back,
> he called them together to describe what they had seen.
> The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
> 當他們都前去也都返家之後，
> 他把他們一起叫到跟前形容他們所看到的情景，
> 大兒子說那棵數很醜、枯槁、扭曲。
>
> The second son said no it was covered with green buds
> and full of promise.
> 二兒子則說，不是這樣子，
> 這棵樹被青青的嫩芽所覆蓋，充滿了盼望。
>
> The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms
> that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful,
> it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
> 三兒子不同意，他說樹上花朵綻放、充滿香氣，
> 看起來十分美麗，這美景事他從來不曾見到過的。
>
> The last son disagreed with all of them;
> he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit,
> full of life and fulfillment.
> 小兒子不同意他們三人的說法。
> 他說樹上結滿了果子、累累下垂。
> 充滿了生命果子與豐收。
>
> The man then explained to his sons that they were all right,
> because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.
> 這個人就對他四個兒子說：你們都是正確的。
> 因為你們四個人是在這棵樹的四個不同季節前往，
> 並且只看到其中一個季節的風景。
>
> He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person,
> by only one season, and that the essence of who
> they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from
> that life can only be measured at the end,
> when all the seasons are up.
> 他告訴兒子們不可用一個季節的風景來評斷一棵樹或是一個人，
> 關於構成一個人是怎樣的一個人的要件，還有一個人生命的
> 歡愉、喜樂、愛，只能在他生命的盡頭時候來做衡量。
>
> If you give up when it's winter,
> you will miss the promise of your spring,
> the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.
> 當你在冬天時候就放棄，
> 你就會錯過你生命春天的盼望、夏天的美麗、秋天的收成。
>
> Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
> 不要讓一個季節的痛苦毀掉其他季節的喜樂。
>
> Don't judge life by one difficult season.
> Persevere through the difficult patches and better times
> are sure to come some time or later.
> 不要因為一個痛苦的季節就對人生下結論，
> 持守忍耐度過這段艱難，美好的日子將在不久之後來到。
>
>
>
> Changing of Seasons..季節的改變
>
> The following pictures are of the same place
> but taken in different seasons...
> 下面的照片是同一個地點在不同季節所拍攝的照片。。。。。
>
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