True courage

佚 名

A father was worried about his son,who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all.So the father decided to call on a senior to train his boy.

The senior said to the boy's father,“You should leave your son alone here.I'll make him a real man within three months.However,you can't come to see him during this period.”

Three months later,the boy's father returned.The senior arranged a boxing match between the boy and an experienced boxer.

Each time the boxer struck the boy,he fell down,but at once the boy stood up;and each time a punch knocked him down,the boy stood up again.Several times later,the senior asked,“What do you think of your child?”

“What a shame!”the boy's father said.“I never thought he would be so easily knocked down.I needn't have him left here any longer.”

“I'm sorry that that's all you see.Don't you see that each time he falls down,he stands up again instead of crying? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have,”the senior said.

一位父親很為兒子擔(dān)心，雖然兒子已經(jīng)16 歲了，卻一點(diǎn)兒勇氣都沒有。于是父親決定去拜訪一位長者，請他訓(xùn)練自己的兒子。

這位長者對男孩的父親說：“你應(yīng)該把你兒子單獨(dú)留在這里。不出三個(gè)月，我會讓他成為一個(gè)真正的男子漢。不過，在這段時(shí)間，你不能來看他。”

三個(gè)月后，男孩的父親又來見長者。長者安排這個(gè)男孩和一位經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的拳師進(jìn)行拳術(shù)比賽。

拳師每次一出手，男孩都被擊倒在地上，但男孩又馬上站起來；每次被擊倒，他就又站起來。幾個(gè)回合后，長者問道：“你認(rèn)為你的孩子怎么樣？”

“真丟人！”男孩的父親說，“我根本沒想到他是這么不堪一擊。我不需要讓他再留在這里了。”

長者說：“很遺憾，你只看到了這一點(diǎn)。難道你沒看到他每次倒下后都重新站起來，而不是哭泣嗎？這才是你想要他擁有的那種勇氣。”