英語(yǔ)勵(lì)志短文：盲童(The Blind Boy)

一個(gè)盲童坐在一幢樓前的臺(tái)階上，他的腳邊放著一頂帽子，手里舉著一塊牌子，牌子上寫著：“我是盲人，請(qǐng)幫幫我”。

帽子里卻只有幾枚硬幣。

一個(gè)人經(jīng)過(guò)這里，從口袋里掏出幾枚硬幣扔進(jìn)帽子中，然后，他拿過(guò)那塊牌子，把它翻過(guò)去，他拿過(guò)那塊牌子，把它翻過(guò)去，在上面寫了幾個(gè)字，又把牌子放回去，這樣過(guò)路人都能看到他寫的字。

給盲童錢幣的人越來(lái)越多，帽子很快就滿了，當(dāng)天下午那個(gè)改寫了盲童牌子的人又過(guò)來(lái)了，他想看看情況怎樣，盲童辨認(rèn)出了他的腳步聲，便問(wèn)：“你就是早上修改我的牌子的人吧？你寫的是什么呢？”

這個(gè)人說(shuō)：“我只是把事實(shí)寫了下來(lái)，把你所寫的內(nèi)容換了一種表達(dá)方式，他寫的是：今天是個(gè)好日子，我卻什么也看不見(jiàn)”。

你是否認(rèn)為第一個(gè)牌子和第二個(gè)牌子陳述的是一件事情呢？

當(dāng)然，兩塊牌子都告訴人們這個(gè)男孩是個(gè)盲人，但前者只要求人們往帽子里放錢來(lái)幫他，而后者則告訴人們他們正在享受美好的日子，而作為盲人的他卻不能。

第一塊牌子只是說(shuō)明男孩是盲人，第二塊牌子則告訴人們他們擁有良好的視力很幸運(yùn)。

我們至少可以從這個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的故事中得出兩點(diǎn)啟示：
第一、要對(duì)擁有的一切懷有感恩之心，或許有人比你擁有得更少。要盡力幫助那些需要幫助的人。 
第二、要富于創(chuàng)造精神，換個(gè)角度考慮問(wèn)題，終會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)好的解決辦法！

 The Blind Boy

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, "I am
blind, please help."

There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words.

He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the 
man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy heard his footsteps and asked,
"Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

What he had written was, " Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it." Do you think the first sign 
and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course, both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by
putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of 
the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story .

The first : Be thankful for what you have .Someone else has less.Help where you can.

The second: Be creative .Think differently .There is always a better way!