天生残疾男孩Ezra的乐观生活.

　　身体发肤受之父母。但上天并不是很公平，他并没有给所有的人健全的身体，有些人天生残疾，但他们乐观的心态却叫人为之动容。

　　LAURA LING: What was different about your body when you were born?你出生时身体与其他人有什么不同?

　　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.

　　我出生时左手只有一根手指，虽然有一条完整的左腿，但却是弯曲的。我在两岁半的时候接受了手术，移除了弯曲的部分，他们在我剩下的残肢部分安上了义肢。当他们把上面安的大脚趾拿下来时，我就把它安在左手上，这样我左手就有两根手指了。我做了无数次的物理治疗，希望能够拥有新的手指，让它能像真正的手指一样，而不是一个脚趾。我一直想办法把这两根手指合在一起，怎样才能让它们合在一起能够接触到呢?当两根接触到的时候，我正和肖恩(一条宠物狗)坐在一起。真是太令人惊讶了，我绕着房子进行尝试，真是太棒了。我做到了，因为，听起来就像是人生的第一个里程碑。

　　LAURA LING: Do you feel different than other kids?你会觉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.

　　有时候是的。人们会盯着你看，并且在背后窃窃私语。我会一直想，世界上这么多小孩，为什么偏偏选中了我，让我成为一个只有一条腿的残疾人。我向上帝请求，拜托，不管怎么样，请再还我一条。但我又想到，我生来就是如此。我改变不了它，当我在运动的时候，我没感觉到与其他人有什么不同，我全神贯注。我全心关注的都是比赛中的事情。

　　LAURA LING: Would you say sports have become a ritual for you?你是说运动成为了你的精神寄托吗?

　　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。如果每天不运动一下的话，我就会觉得全身怪怪的。我总是有这样一种感觉，当我难过或者孤独时，就会去运动。而且，我喜欢竞技，我喜欢这种感觉，喜欢做事情有压力。但当我在运动时，本来思绪万千的大脑就会立刻把精力投入比赛中。我感觉我的周围有一把火，火焰乱窜，把我包围其中。所以此时如果闹钟闪现出任何不相关的想法，火焰就会把思绪烧毁，让我保持专注。

　　LAURA LING: Do you feel you have to work harder than other kids?你会不会觉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。我敢打赌，迈步走路对于其他孩子来讲根本不叫事，对我来讲，当我迈步时，我会说，哇，这真是一件大事。但我想到没一点加在我身体上的压力，每天带着义肢，回到家里，背都疼得要死，在每晚睡觉前我会做一些拉伸练习。

　　LAURA LING: So how do you stay positive?你是怎么保持乐观精神的呢?

　　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.

　　我必须得想一下什么是我拥有的，而不是去想我没有什么。我有幸福的生活，温暖的家庭，还有棒极了的双腿，我有很棒的朋友和很棒的学校，我还可以拥有这些很多年，我只是想说，很感激能在生活中拥有这么多美好的事情。生活中有许多挑战，就是这样，有一堵墙在那里，我会打破这堵墙。如果我只是随便跑跑，踢踢球，投投篮，我不会想这些事情。当我运动的时候，我不会觉得自己有什么不同，因为运动是我忘记自己身体上缺陷，我生来如此，这并不是一件坏事。我已经学会了对自己有信心，我也知道自己必须要变得强壮。