Sunshine on a Rainy Day
佚名/Anonymous
你是否經曆過這樣的一天，在這一天裏事事不順？不久以前我就有過這麽一天，我感到氣餒、厭煩，非常悲傷，我滿腦子想的都是自己，畢竟沒有人經曆過我所經曆的磨難。
我把我糟糕的心情告訴我的母親，希望得到她的憐憫，母親卻說：“我聽說傑米今天也不高興，你為什麽不做些餅幹今天下午帶給她呢？”我本來不想去做，但是我不願再去想其他讓我心煩的事情，所以我就去做餅幹了，我把做好的餅幹擺在一個小盤裏，還做了一個畫著太陽的卡片，在上麵寫了一句安慰的話。
那天下午我們去我的朋友家拜訪，我去按門鈴，很快，傑米出來了，她驚奇地看著我，她沒有想到我會來看她。在她開口說話之前，我先說話了：“我聽說你今天不高興，就決定送你些東西，希望你高興起來。”當時，我無法用語言描述傑米的表情，就好像陰暗的天空突然間被金色的陽光照亮，好像她陰鬱的一天因我的拜訪而變得充滿陽光。
我回到車裏驚奇地發現我的心情好多了，那一天我體會到一個真理，用詹姆斯·巴裏的話來說就是：“給別人帶去陽光的人，自己也會感到溫暖。”
Have you ever had a day when everything seemed to go wrong， and nothing seemed to go right？ Not too long ago I was having one of those days. I was discouraged， weary， and plain sad. My focus was on me， me， me. After all， no one else was experiencing the same trials as I was.
I expressed my downcast state to my mother， hoping for some pity. Instead， she said， "I heard Jamie was having a difficult day， too. Why don't you make her some cookies and we will take them to her this afternoon？" I didn't really want to， but decided that I didn't want to go back to my other problems just yet. I made the cookies and arranged them on a little plate. Then I made a card with a sunflower on it and wrote a small note of empathy.