當幸福來敲門 第50章 痛苦與成長
    PainandGrowth

    Lookingbackovermylife,itseemstomethatIhavelearnedthemostwhenIfeltthegreatestpain.Mymother』sdeath,forexample,madememoreprofoundlyawareofthebeautyinnature.Mycapacityforfindingjoyinthemostordinaryevents(watchingafloweropen,leavesturningred,abirdtakingabath)seemstodeepeneachtimeIlivethroughgreatsorrow.Deathmakeslifemoreprecious;frustrationmakessuccessmorefulfilling;failuremakesthenextaccomplishmentmoremeaningful.

    Inordertofeeldeeplyitisnecessarytofeeleverything.Itisimpossibletochoose.Youcan』treallyknowhowgreatisyoursenseofjoyatababy』sbirthoryoursatisfactionatsucceedingatahardjobunlessyouarealsodeeplyawareoftheanguishofseparationandthepainoffailure.It』sthroughthecapacitytofeelthatwediscoverourselvesandothersandexplorethepotentialforafull,significantlife.

    Thisisanespeciallycrucialissueforparents.Ournaturalinclinationistotrytoprotectchildrenfrompain.Wehavethemistakennotionthatifchildishappywearedoingagoodjob;ifachildissadwearefailingasparents.Butgivingchildrenthemessagethathappinessisgoodandsadnessisterribledecreasestheircapacitytoexplorethefullrangeofhumanexperiences.

    Childrenneedtounderstandthatsuffering,frustrationandfailurearenotonlyinevitablebuthelpful.Theparentwhotookasimplepuzzleawayfromafour-year-old—because「hegetstooupsetandfrustratedwhenhecan』tgetitrightimmediately」—didthechildagreatdisservice.Childrenneedtoexperiencesuchfeelingsastheygrowup;ithelpsthemtodevelopthepatience,persistenceandabilitytocopewithwhatthey』llneedwhenascientificexperimentfails,oralowgradeisreceivedafterdiligentstudy.Thereisnothingsoterribleaboutfailingandfeelingpain;whathurtsinthelongrunisnottryingbecauseofthefearofpain.

    回顧我的一生,似乎那些讓我覺得最受傷的事情給了我最多的啟示。比如,媽媽的死讓我更深刻地感知到自然中的美麗。每一次我從極大的悲痛中掙扎出來,似乎我在最尋常的事物(賞花開,觀葉紅,看鳥浴)中發現歡樂的能力就越強。死亡讓生命更加珍貴;挫折讓成功更加完美;而失敗也讓下一次的成就意義更加深刻。

    要感受深刻,用心去感受一切是必需的。除此之外,別無選擇。除非你深深地理解分娩的疼痛,否則你不會真正領悟新生命誕生的極大喜悅;除非你深深地理解失敗的痛苦,否則你就不能真正地領悟完成艱巨任務後的滿足感。我們用這種感知的能力,去發現和探測自己和他人的完整而意義重大的人生。

    這是父母們的一個特別的、至關重要的課題。保護孩子不受傷害,這是做父母的天性。我們錯誤的認為,如果孩子幸福父母就做得稱職,如果孩子不幸福,那麼父母就做得很失敗。但是父母給孩子的這種信號——幸福就是好,悲傷就是糟糕,降低了孩子們探索全部人生閱歷的能力。

    孩子們需要懂得苦難、挫折、失敗不僅僅是不可避免的,也是有益的。父母從4歲孩子的手中拿走他的智力玩具,因為「當他不能快速而準確的做好時,他就會灰心喪氣」,這給孩子造成了極大的傷害。在孩子的成長過程中,孩子需要去感受這樣的經歷,這有助於孩子的耐性、毅力和能力的培養,這正是他們在科學實驗失敗時,在艱苦的努力換來低回報時所需要的品質。經受失敗和感受痛苦並不可怕;從長遠來說,真正的痛苦是因害怕痛苦而拒絕嘗試。

    1.Mycapacityfor______joyinthemostordinaryevents(watchingaflower______,leavesturningred,abirdtakingabath)seemstodeepeneachtimeI______throughgreatsorrow.Deathmakeslifemoreprecious;frustrationmakes_________morefulfilling;failuremakesthenextaccomplishment_______meaningful.

    2.Youcan』treallyknowhowisyoursenseofjoyatababy』soryoursatisfactionatsucceedingatahardjobyouarealsodeeplyawareoftheanguishofseparationandthepainoffailure.

    1.回顧我的一生,似乎那些讓我覺得最受傷的事情給了我最多的啟示。

    2.要感受深刻,用心去感受一切是必需的。

    3.孩子們需要懂得苦難、挫折、失敗不僅僅是不可避免的,也是有益的。

    1.Inordertofeeldeeplyitisnecessarytofeeleverything.

    inorderto:為了

    2.Childrenneedtoexperiencesuchfeelingsastheygrowup

    growup:成長,逐漸形成
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