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成功的人生不设限My sonJoey wasborn withclub feet.The doctorsassured usthat withtreatment hewould be一able towalk normallybut wouldnever runvery well.The firstthree yearsof hislife were,spent insurgery,casts andbraces.By thetime hewas eight,you wouldnt knowhe had a problemwhenyou sawhim walk.我的儿子琼尼降生时,他的双脚向上弯弯着,医生向我们保证说经过治疗,小琼尼可以像常人一样走路,但像常人一样跑步的可能性则微乎其微琼尼岁之前一直在接受治疗,和支3架、石膏模子打交道七八岁的时候,他走路的样子已让人看不出他的腿有过毛病The childrenin ourneighborhood ranaround asmost childrendo duringplay,and Joeywould,jump rightin andrun andplay,too.We nevertold himthat heprobably wouldnt beable to runas wellas theother children.So hedidnt know.邻居的小孩子们做游戏的时候总是跑过来跑过去毫无疑问小琼尼看到他们玩就会马上加进去跑啊闹的我们从不告诉他不能像别的孩子那样跑,我们从不说他和别的孩子不一样因为我们不对他说,所以他不知道In seventhgrade hedecided togo outfor thecross—country team.Every day he trainedwith一the team.He workedharder andran morethan anyof theothers perhapshe sensedthat theabilitiesthat seemedto comenaturally toso manyothers didnot comenaturally tohim.Althoughthe entireteam runs,only thetop sevenrunners havethe potentialto scorepoints forthe school.,,We didn t tellhim heprobably wouldnever makethe team,so hedidn tknow.七年级的时候,琼尼决定参加跑步横穿全美的比赛每天他和大伙一块训练也许是意识到自己先天不如别人,他训练得比任何人都刻苦训练队的前名选手可以参加最后比赛,为7学校拿分我们没有告诉琼尼;也许会落空,所以他不知道一一He continuedtorunfour tofive milesa day,every dayeven thedayhehada103degree fever.I wasworried,so Iwent tolook forhim afterschool.I foundhim runningall〃alone.I askedhim howhe felt.Okay,he said.He hadtwo moremiles togo.The sweatrandown hisface andhis eyeswere glassyfrom hisfever.Yet helooked straightahead andkept一,,running.We nevertold himhe couldnt runfour mileswith a103degree fever.So hedidnt know.他坚持每天跑英里我永远不会忘记有一次,他发着高烧,但仍坚持训练我为他担〜45心,于是去学校看他,发现他正在一个人沿着长长的林荫道跑步呢我问他感觉怎么样,〃很好〃他说还剩下最后两英里他满脸是汗,眼睛因为发烧失去了光彩然而他目不斜视,坚持着跑下来我们从没有告诉他不能发着高烧去跑英里的路,我们从没有这样对他说,所4以他不知道Two weekslater,the namesof the team runnerswere called.Joey wasnumber sixon thelist.一Joey hadmade theteam.He wasin seventhgrade theother sixteam memberswere alleighth一,,graders.We nevertold himhe shouldnt expectto maketheteam.We nevertold himhe couldn,,t doit.We nevertold himhe couldnt doit...so hedidntknow.He justdid it.两个星期后,在决赛前的天,长跑队的名次被确定下来琼尼是第六名,他成功了他3才是个七年级生,而其余的人都是八年级生我们从没有告诉他不要去期望入选,我们从没有对他说他不会成功是的,从没说起过……所以他不知道,但他却做到了!。