5.The Patch of Life 人生的补丁

我觉得这是我们每个人都可以学习的地方：将我们的伤口变成我们美丽的亮点。加油！

面对自己的不幸，在不幸中开出花来，加油！

Not long ago, my daughter's frosting shoes were scratched by someone's knife．She burst into tears．I took the shoes to the shoemaker to get them  repaired ．
The young apprentice （学徒） glanced at the opening and said, " There is nothing  I can do but replace the upper．" His master looked at them and said to me, "If you trust me, I will add more scratches on both of the shoes."
I was  confused and asked why．
He explained, "As if the openings were made on purpose for the sake of special style and reuse．"

I didn't fully understand him, but I decided to leave the shoes.
Two days later I dropped by from work to fetch the shoes. At the first sight I found they were indeed more scratches on each shoe, but all the openings were patched （打补丁） by soft leather in rust red with edges sewed by thick hemp thread; the stitches were twisted with the appearance of roughness and plainness which was in accordance with the quality of frosting leather,  more unique and interesting than ever. I couldn't help making compliments on the master's craftsmanship. 
Another time, my wife's sister's white blouse was torn a large opening on the back．My wife  took it over and checked  carefully, and then said, "Let me take it home and mend it．"

Three days later, seeing the blouse again, I was shocked: all the cracks and opening were sewed up by thin and white thread and they took on a look of branches, like the ice crystal （冰晶） on winter's branches in the north. In order to intensify the effect, she attached a fatty snowman and a cabin made of flowery cotton rags on the shirt．I sighed  with praise, "It's just as beautiful as a piece of art !"

"I was inspired by that craftsman．Patches are supposed to be  a regret , but a skillful craftsman can make it take on a look of perfection," replied my wife．

Her words inspired me even more: Perfection is impossible to achieve in everything; Patches are unavoidable, so is human's life．which will appear in the form of injury, disability or disease. Since you can't change the existence of wound, you should not expect people's sympathy by the wound, which reveals nothing meaningful. All you can do and have to do is to suture the wound by patches and try your best to bloom a most beautiful flower on the wound, and that is the significance of life. 

不久之前，我女儿的鞋子被刀子划了下，一下子哭了出来。我把鞋子带到鞋匠那儿。

年轻的小学徒瞥了一bai眼那个被划开的口子，对我说：“除非把鞋面都换了，不然我没什么可以帮你的了。”

他的师父瞧了瞧那双鞋子，说道：“如果你信得过我的话，我就在鞋子上多划几道口子。”

我对此感到十分困惑，问他为什么。

他解释道：“我是为了让那些刮痕看上去像是过意而为的，就像一种时尚一样。”

我并不是十分明白他的意思，但我还是把鞋子留在那儿了。

两天后我下班回来去取鞋子，发现每只鞋子上都多了好多新的划痕。所有的划痕都打着补丁，那些补丁都是一些红色的软软的皮革。针线都是被刻意可以扭曲的，所以鞋子表面上看上去就比之前的更加独特更加有意思。我禁不住赞叹起师傅的高超手艺来。

还有一次，我姐姐的衣服被扯破了，留下了一个很大的口子。我妻子仔细的看了一下，说：“我把它带回家好好修理一下吧。”

三天后，当我再次看到它的时候我惊呆了：扯破的口子上都缝补这好看的冰水晶，上面还附着一个花布头做的雪人。我赞叹道：“真是神奇啊！”

“我是被那个鞋匠师傅所启发的，补丁当然是丑的，但是一个记忆高超的手工艺术者可以让他们看起来更完美。”我的妻子回答道。

她的话启发了我很多：“在生活中要想取得完美是不可能的，补丁就像是我们生活中所受的伤，以及一些残缺或者疾病。因为你是不可能改变这些伤痕的存在的，所以你不应该期待人们对于这些伤痕的同情，那是毫无用处的。去为这些伤痕打上补丁吧，然后在那些漂亮的补丁上缝上几多美丽的花朵。那才是生活最重要的意义所在。