天生殘疾男孩Ezra的樂觀生活.

　　身體發(fā)膚受之父母。但上天并不是很公平，他并沒有給所有的人健全的身體，有些人天生殘疾，但他們樂觀的心態(tài)卻叫人為之動容。

　　LAURA LING: What was different about your body when you were born?你出生時身體與其他人有什么不同?

　　EZRA FRECH: I was actually born with one finger on my lt hand and a full lt leg, but it was curved. I had surgery when I was 2 and 1/2 years old to remove the part that was curved. So I had a stump that they could put a prosthetic leg on. And then they took the big toe from that. And they put it on my lt hand. So I have two fingers. I did tons of physical therapy to try to get my new finger to work like a real finger, and not like a toe. I was always trying to figure out how to bring them together and how to get them to come together and touch. And I was sitting in the shower. And they touched. And then it was amazing. I was running around the house screaming, yeahhh, I did it. Because that was the first milestone.

　　我出生時左手只有一根手指，雖然有一條完整的左腿，但卻是彎曲的。我在兩歲半的時候接受了手術(shù)，移除了彎曲的部分，他們在我剩下的殘肢部分安上了義肢。當(dāng)他們把上面安的大腳趾拿下來時，我就把它安在左手上，這樣我左手就有兩根手指了。我做了無數(shù)次的物理治療，希望能夠擁有新的手指，讓它能像真正的手指一樣，而不是一個腳趾。我一直想辦法把這兩根手指合在一起，怎樣才能讓它們合在一起能夠接觸到呢?當(dāng)兩根接觸到的時候，我正和肖恩(一條寵物狗)坐在一起。真是太令人驚訝了，我繞著房子進行嘗試，真是太棒了。我做到了，因為，聽起來就像是人生的第一個里程碑。

　　LAURA LING: Do you feel different than other kids?你會覺得自己和其他孩子不同么?

　　EZRA FRECH: Sometimes I do. People do stare and whisper. I'll be thinking, there's tons of kids in this world. How did he happen to choose me to be one of the kids that had to get their leg taken away. And I asked God, can you please give me a leg, somehow, some way. When I have to think, I was born like this. I can't change it. And when I play sports, I don't feel different. I don't think about anything else. I just think about what's happening in the game.

　　有時候是的。人們會盯著你看，并且在背后竊竊私語。我會一直想，世界上這么多小孩，為什么偏偏選中了我，讓我成為一個只有一條腿的殘疾人。我向上帝請求，拜托，不管怎么樣，請再還我一條。但我又想到，我生來就是如此。我改變不了它，當(dāng)我在運動的時候，我沒感覺到與其他人有什么不同，我全神貫注。我全心關(guān)注的都是比賽中的事情。

　　LAURA LING: Would you say sports have become a ritual for you?你是說運動成為了你的精神寄托嗎?

　　EZRA FRECH: Yes. Because I feel like if I don't play sports every day, I feel weird. I've always felt like sports is where I can go when I'm sad or lonely or anything. I love competition. I love the feeling. I love being under pressure and everything. When I'm playing sports, I go from thinking about all the other things to game mode. When I'm in the zone, I feel like I have this fire around me. And then the flames pop up and have this circle around it. So any thoughts that try to come in, and they get burned by the fire. And they don't let in.

　　是的。如果每天不運動一下的話，我就會覺得全身怪怪的。我總是有這樣一種感覺，當(dāng)我難過或者孤獨時，就會去運動。而且，我喜歡競技，我喜歡這種感覺，喜歡做事情有壓力。但當(dāng)我在運動時，本來思緒萬千的大腦就會立刻把精力投入比賽中。我感覺我的周圍有一把火，火焰亂竄，把我包圍其中。所以此時如果鬧鐘閃現(xiàn)出任何不相關(guān)的想法，火焰就會把思緒燒毀，讓我保持專注。

　　LAURA LING: Do you feel you have to work harder than other kids?你會不會覺得自己要比其他孩子更努力?

　　EZRA FRECH: Oh, yes. I bet kids, when they take a step, oh, I took a step. Big deal. For me, when I take a step, I say, oh, no big deal. But I thought about every little bit. I put so much pressure on my body from being in a prosthetic all day, I come home. I'm like dying from back pain. And I have to stretch bore I go to bed every night.

　　哦，是的。我敢打賭，邁步走路對于其他孩子來講根本不叫事，對我來講，當(dāng)我邁步時，我會說，哇，這真是一件大事。但我想到?jīng)]一點加在我身體上的壓力，每天帶著義肢，回到家里，背都疼得要死，在每晚睡覺前我會做一些拉伸練習(xí)。

　　LAURA LING: So how do you stay positive?你是怎么保持樂觀精神的呢?

　　EZRA FRECH: I have to think about what I have instead of what I don't have. I have a great life. I have a great family. I have great legs. I have great friends. I have a great school. I could go on for years. I'm just gratul that I have so many things that are great in my life. There's lots of challenges in people's life. And that's a little wall right there. So I try to break down that wall. If I'm just running around playing soccer or shooting a lay-up, I don't think about it. I don't feel different when I'm playing. Sports because that takes me away from my disability. But it's a good thing that I'm born like this. I've learned to be confident in myself. I've learned how to be strong.

　　我必須得想一下什么是我擁有的，而不是去想我沒有什么。我有幸福的生活，溫暖的家庭，還有棒極了的雙腿，我有很棒的朋友和很棒的學(xué)校，我還可以擁有這些很多年，我只是想說，很感激能在生活中擁有這么多美好的事情。生活中有許多挑戰(zhàn)，就是這樣，有一堵墻在那里，我會打破這堵墻。如果我只是隨便跑跑，踢踢球，投投籃，我不會想這些事情。當(dāng)我運動的時候，我不會覺得自己有什么不同，因為運動是我忘記自己身體上缺陷，我生來如此，這并不是一件壞事。我已經(jīng)學(xué)會了對自己有信心，我也知道自己必須要變得強壯。