佚名/Anonymous
About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen. All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life was all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world: a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago. I'm a successful business person now. And whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
大約十年前，當我還是個在校的大學生時，我在學校的自然曆史博物館做實習生。一天，當我正在禮品店的收銀台工作時，看到一對老夫婦推著一位坐在輪椅上的小姑娘走進店裏。
近看時，我看到她完全是被放在椅子上的。她沒有手臂和雙腿，隻有頭部、頸部和軀幹。她穿著一件有紅色斑點的白色連衣裙。
當那對夫婦推著她朝我走來時，我正低著頭看收銀機。我把頭轉向那位女孩，朝她眨了眨眼。當接過她祖父母的錢時，我回頭看了看那位小姑娘，她正朝我微笑，那是我有生以來見到的最可愛、最燦爛的微笑。突然間，她身上的所有缺陷都消失了，我看到的是一個美麗的小女孩。她的微笑感染了我，幾乎立即給了我一種全新的關於生命的感受。她讓我從那個貧窮、苦悶的大學生進入到她的世界——一個充滿微笑、愛和溫暖的世界。