味久闲聊
失落的一角（The Missing Piece）
Shel Silverstein这是一本只需花五分钟便可读完的书，却蕴含着丰富的人生智慧。
《失落的一角》的主角It是失落了一角的圆，为了变成一个完整的圆，It历经艰苦，终于找回了那失落的一角，找到后却猛然发现，那种的契合並不是如理想中那么完美，在使自己变得完美无缺的同时，It也失去了不完美期间所特有的那种快乐。最後，It決定放弃自己好不容易才寻回的失落的一角，做回那并不完美的从前的It。
我们不就是和故事中缺了一角的圆It一样，一生都在寻找那失落的一角吗？在搜寻的旅程中，会遇到合适却不愿意填补的那一角，也会遇到并不合适的一角。寻寻觅觅，最终找到了完全符合的那一角时，我们才发现由此也失去了一些珍贵的东西。或许，我们会由此而放弃好不容易才寻找到的那一角，继续我们那并不完美的人生旅程。
这是个寓言故事，告诉我们完美和缺陷的关系，刻意的追求完美的结果，或许是丧失了另外一些珍贵的东西。残缺有时候也是一种美。
人生是一个寻找的过程，在这寻找的过程中，在被时间雕刻的过程中，我们也开始学会成熟… …
It was missing a piece. And it was not happy.
So it set off in search of its missing piece.
And as it rolled, it sang this song
"Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece"
Sometimes it baked in the sun
but then the cool rain would come down.
And somethimes it was frozen by the snow
but then the sun would come and warm it again.
And because it was missing a piece
it could not roll very fast
so it would stop to talk to a worm
or smell a flower
and sometimes it would pass a beetle
and sometimes the beetle would pass it
and this was the best time of all.
And on it went, over oceans
"Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
Over land and over seas
So grease my knees and fleece my bees.
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece."
through swamps and jungles
up mountains
and down mountains
Until one day, lo and behold!
"I've found my missin' piece
I've found my missin' piece
So grease my knees and fleece my bees
I've found my..."
"Wait a minute" said the piece.
"Before you go greasing your knees
and fleecing your bees..."
"I am not your missing piece.
I am nobody's piece.
I am my own piece.
And even if I was somebody's missing piece
I don't think I'd be yours!"
"Oh"
it said sadly
"I'm sorry to have bothered you"
And on it rolled.
It found another piece
but this one was too small.
And this one was too big.
This one was a little too sharp.
And this one was too square.
One time it seemed to have found
the perfect piece
but it didn't hold it tightly enough
and lost it.
Another time
it held too tightly
and it broke.
So on and on it rolled,
having adventures
falling into holes
and bumping into stone walls.
And then one day it came upon
another piece that seemed to be just right.
"Hi" it said.
"Hi" said the piece.
"Are you anybody else's missing piece?"
"Not that I know of"
"Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?"
"I can be someone's and still be my own."
"Maybe I do."
"Maybe we won't fit.."
"Well..."
"Hummmm?"
"Ummmmm!"
It fit!
It fit perfectly!
At last! At last!
And away it rolled
and because it was
now complete,
it rolled faster and faster,
Faster than it had ever rolled before!
So fast that it could not stop
to talk to a worm or smell a flower
too fast for a butterfly to land.
But it could sing its happy song,
at last it could sing
"I've found my missing piece"
And it began to sing
"I've frown my nizzin'geez
Uf vround my mitzin'brees
So krease ny meas
An bleez ny dregs
Uf frown..."
Oh my, now that it was complete
it could not sing at all
"Aha" it thought.
"So that's how it is!"
So it stopped rolling....
and it set the piece down gently,
and slowly rolled away
and as it rolled it softly sang
"Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece
Hi-dee-ho,here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece."