照料你的夢(mèng)想

Care for your dream

Dreams really do exist, but in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me.

I always had a dream to dance. When I was young, I would dance around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying: “I don’t know why you bother trying to dance. You don’t have the talent to be a ballerina.” Hearing that, I fell to the ground and wept for hours.

We lived in the country by a lake. My mother always criticized everything because she thought nothing was ever perfect in her life. She dreamed of a different life but she ended up living in the country, far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true.

I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looking nothing like a pretty ballerina. Reflections don’t lie. Once the waves came, my reflection would be gone—washed away, just like my dream to dance.

As I grew older I began to realize that the reason why my dream was even born was that it was something that was inside me. The dream I had was never cared for, so it slowly died. It’s not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words: “You can’t do it.” When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that I could’t just settle for dancing in the wildflowers, I had to move on to the stage.

【助讀詞匯】

◇ballerina n. 芭蕾舞女

◇reflection n. 倒影，反射，映象

【參考譯文】

照料你的夢(mèng)想

夢(mèng)的的確克是存在的，但是早上當(dāng)你醒來(lái)的時(shí)候，它們僅僅是記憶里的一個(gè)夢(mèng)。這正是發(fā)生我身上的事。

我一直夢(mèng)想著跳舞。小時(shí)候我會(huì)在后院那一片野花地里跳來(lái)跳去。當(dāng)我聽(tīng)見(jiàn)一個(gè)聲音說(shuō)“我不知道你為什么要浪費(fèi)功夫來(lái)嘗試跳舞。你又沒(méi)有成為芭蕾舞者的天資”，現(xiàn)實(shí)讓我從夢(mèng)里醒了過(guò)來(lái)。聽(tīng)到那聲音，我撲倒在地上，連哭了好幾個(gè)小時(shí)。

我們住在鄉(xiāng)下一個(gè)湖旁邊。媽媽什么事都抱怨，因?yàn)樗�覺(jué)得自己生活里每一件事都不如意。她夢(mèng)想過(guò)另外一種生活，結(jié)果她卻在鄉(xiāng)下住了下來(lái)，離她認(rèn)為可以實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想的城市很遠(yuǎn)。

我喜歡在湖邊散步。我可以在那坐上幾個(gè)小時(shí)，盯著自己的倒影看。我就是這模樣，一點(diǎn)都不像個(gè)漂亮的芭蕾舞者。倒影不會(huì)騙人。每次波浪蕩過(guò)來(lái)，我的倒影就消失不見(jiàn)了——被沖掉了，就像我想跳舞的夢(mèng)想一樣。

長(zhǎng)大后，我開(kāi)始明白，我之所以懷有這個(gè)夢(mèng)想是因?yàn)樗�就在我心里。但是我沒(méi)有照料它，它就枯死了。并不是我希望它枯死，但是當(dāng)我把“你做不到”這句話聽(tīng)進(jìn)去的時(shí)候，我就放任它枯死了。最后我從多年來(lái)的夢(mèng)中醒來(lái)，懂得了在野花叢中起舞是不夠的，得上舞臺(tái)去跳。

【人生啟迪】

在一部很有名的好萊塢勵(lì)志片《當(dāng)幸福來(lái)敲門》里，一位父親對(duì)他的兒子說(shuō)：“別讓別人說(shuō)你不能成事，即使是我也不行。如果你有夢(mèng)想，就得保護(hù)它。別人干不了，他們就說(shuō)你也干不成。如果你想干什么，就去干。”對(duì)，想干就干，別愧對(duì)你的夢(mèng)想！