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与孩子在一起时，
时间也渐渐变得透明。

不是没有事情发生，
而是每一件事发生以后，
都不必被带往下一刻。

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With a child,
time, too, becomes transparent.

Not because nothing happens,
but because each moment can end where it ends,
without being carried into the next.

 

 

02

情绪还是会升起，
被哭出来，喊出来，
被整个身体表达。

然后，它经过了。

没有谁需要因此成为
一个怎样的人。

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Emotions still rise—
cried, shouted,
expressed by the whole body.

And then, they pass.

No one has to become
a certain kind of person because of them.

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03

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孩子有时干脆，
甚至决绝。

并不是因为他已经想好了
自己要扮演怎样的角色。

只是经验还没有被
太多故事加载，
所以一个“不”就是一个“不”，
一次离开也只是一次离开。

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A child can be direct,
even absolute.

Not because they have decided
what kind of role to play.

Experience has not yet been burdened
with so much story—

so a no is simply a no,
and leaving is simply leaving.

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孩子像一面澄澈的镜子。

不是因为他永远平静，
而是风吹过以后，
水面不急着保存
刚才的形状。

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A child is like a clear mirror.

Not because they are always calm,
but because when the wind has passed,
the water does not hurry to preserve
the shape it held a moment ago.

 

 

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也许陪伴一个孩子，
就是让经验直接发生，
不急着留下痕迹。

不从这一刻推断他的未来，
也不把一次反应
凝固成他的性格。

他不必成为
“一个怎样的孩子”。

这一刻的他，
可以只属于这一刻。

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Perhaps being with a child
is allowing experience to happen directly,
without hurrying to leave a trace.

Not predicting their future from this moment,
or hardening one response into a character.

They do not have to become
“a certain kind of child.”

Who they are in this moment
may belong only to this moment.