英语温馨夜读I PART4 15 Run Free 自由奔跑

[00:00.78]Run Free 自由奔跑 [00:05.58]One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. [00:10.62]I got there a little early so I parked the car by the curb, [00:14.59]across the street from where she worked, and waited for her. [00:18.17]As I looked outside the car window to my right, [00:21.67]there was a small park where I saw a little boy, [00:24.52]around one and a half to two years old, [00:26.97]running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. [00:31.84]The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, [00:35.34]and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, [00:38.63]run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, [00:43.03]as if nothing had happened. [00:44.75]When they fall down, kids don’t perceive their falling down as failure, [00:49.68]but instead, they treat it as a learning experience, [00:52.69]as just another result or outcome. [00:55.48]They feel compelled to try and try again until they succeed. [00:59.63]The reason must be... [01:02.31]they have not associated“falling down”with the word“failure”yet, [01:06.53]thus they don’t know how to feel the state which accompanies failure. [01:10.46]As a result, they are not disempowered in any way. [01:14.08]Plus, they probably think to themselves [01:16.97]that it’s perfectly Okay to fall down, [01:19.12]that it’s not wrong to do so. [01:21.08]In other words, they give themselves permission to make mistakes, subconsciously. [01:26.55]Thus they remain empowered. [01:28.52]While I was touched by the boy’s persistence, [01:31.86]I was equally touched by the manner in which he ran. [01:34.53]With each attempt, he looked so confident...so natural. [01:38.69]No signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged— [01:42.68]as if he didn’t give a care about the world around him. [01:46.02]His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. [01:51.05]He was just being a child—just being himself—being completely in the moment. [01:56.64]He was not looking for approval or was not worrying about [02:00.80]whether someone was watching or not. [02:02.87]He wasn’t concerned about being judged. [02:05.61]He didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him fall. [02:10.42]No, all that mattered to him [02:12.90]was to accomplish the task or activity at hand to the best of his ability. [02:17.54]To run...and to feel the experience of running fully and freely. [02:22.68]I learned a lot from that observation and experience, [02:26.50]and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

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