<h3><font color="#010101"><br>Your children are not your children.<br>你的子女，其实不是你的子女。<br><br>They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.<br>他们是生命对于自身渴望而诞生的孩子。<br><br>They come through you but not from you,<br>他们借助你来到这个世界，却非因你而来，<br><br>And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.<br>他们陪伴你，却并不属于你。<br><br></font></h3> <h3>You may give them your love but not your thoughts,<br></h3><div>你可以给予他们你的爱，却不是你的想法，</div><div><br></div><div>For they have their own thoughts.</div><div>因为他们有自己的思想。</div><div><br></div><div>You may house their bodies but not their souls,</div><div>你可以庇护的是他们的身体，却不是他们的灵魂，</div><div><br></div><div>For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.</div><div>因为他们的灵魂属于明天，属于你在梦境中也无法达到的明天。</div><div><br></div> <h3><br></h3><div>You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,</div><div>你可以拼尽全力，变得像他们一样，却不要让他们变得和你一样，</div><div><br></div><div>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.</div><div>因为生命不会后退，也不在过去停留。</div><div><br></div> You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.<div>你是弓，儿女是从你那里射出的箭。</div><div><br></div><div>The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,</div><div>弓箭手遥望未来之路上的箭靶，</div><div><br></div><div>and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.</div><div>用尽力气将你拉开，使箭射得又快又远。</div><div><br></div><div>Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness,</div><div>怀着快乐的心情，在弓箭手的手中弯曲吧，</div><div><br></div><div>For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.</div><div>因为他爱一路飞翔的箭，也爱无比稳定的弓。</div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div>“所谓父女母子一场，只不过意味着，你和他的缘分就是今生今世不断地在目送他的背影渐行渐远。你站在小路的这一端，看着他逐渐消失在小路转弯的地方，而且，他用背影默默地告诉你，不用追。——龙应台《目送》”</div>