假如给我三天光明(8)(2/2)
《最优美的散文》作者:徐翰林 2017-04-13 16:07
fe worth living.First I should like to gaze long upon the face of my dear teacher?Mrs.Anne Sullivan Macy?who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world to me.I should want not merely to see the outline of her face?so that I could cherish it in my memory?but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education.I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties?and that compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to me so often.
I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”?the eye.I can only “see” through my finger tips the outline of a face.I can detect laughter?sorrow?and many other obvious emotions.I know my friends from the feel of their faces.But I cannot really picture their personalities by touch.I know their personalities?of course?through other means,through the thoughts they express to me?through whatever of their actions are revealed to me.But I am denied that deeper understanding of them which I am sure would come through sight of them?through watching their reactions to various expressed thoughts and circumstances?through noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and countenance.
I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”?the eye.I can only “see” through my finger tips the outline of a face.I can detect laughter?sorrow?and many other obvious emotions.I know my friends from the feel of their faces.But I cannot really picture their personalities by touch.I know their personalities?of course?through other means,through the thoughts they express to me?through whatever of their actions are revealed to me.But I am denied that deeper understanding of them which I am sure would come through sight of them?through watching their reactions to various expressed thoughts and circumstances?through noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and countenance.