[英语美文摘抄]在生活中保持完好(Be Whole in Lif

Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.

There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing. Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words you've gotten right, you're disqualified if you make one mistake. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire5 to. That, I believe, is what God asks of us -- not "Be perfect", not "Don't even make a mistake", but "Be whole".

If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.

有一次，一个圆圈漏掉了一个楔子。圆圈想要完整，所以它四处寻找丢失的部分。但因为它不完整，所以只能很慢地滚动，它欣赏沿途的花。它和虫子聊天。它喜欢阳光。它发现了很多不同的碎片，但没有一个是合适的。所以它把他们都留在路边继续寻找。后来有一天，圆圈找到了一块非常合适的。太高兴了。现在它可能是完整的，没有丢失任何东西。它把丢失的那一块合在一起开始滚动。既然它是一个完美的圆圈，它可以滚动得非常快，太快，以至于不能注意到花或与蠕虫交谈。当它意识到当它滚得这么快的时候，这个世界看起来是多么的不同，它停下来，把找到的那块放在路边，慢慢地滚走了。

我建议说，这个故事的教训是，在某种奇怪的意义上，当我们错过一些东西时，我们会更完整。拥有一切的人在某种程度上是个穷人。他永远不会知道渴望，希望，用美好的梦想滋养他的灵魂是什么感觉。他永远不会知道有一个爱他的人给他一些他一直想要或从未拥有的东西。

一个人已经接受了自己的局限性，他勇敢地放弃了不切实际的梦想，并且没有失败的感觉，这是一种完整。有一个完整的男人或女人谁知道，他或她足够强大，经历一场悲剧和生存，她可以失去一个人，仍然觉得像一个完整的人。

生命不是神为我们设的陷阱，好叫他因我们的失败而定我们的罪。生活不是一场拼字比赛，无论你拼对了多少单词，只要你犯了一个错误，你就被取消资格。生活更像是一个棒球赛季，即使是最好的球队也会输掉三分之一的比赛，即使是最差的球队也会有辉煌的日子。我们的目标是赢得比输掉更多的比赛。当我们接受不完美是人类的一部分，当我们能够继续在生活中滚动并欣赏它时，我们将获得一个别人只能渴望的整体。我相信，这是上帝对我们的要求——不是“完美”，不是“不犯错误”，而是“完整”。

如果我们有足够的勇气去爱，有足够的力量去原谅，有足够的慷慨去为他人的幸福而欢欣，有足够的智慧去知道有足够的爱为我们所有人而存在，那么我们就能实现一种其他生物永远不会知道的成就。