Story | Laugh and Start Over
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| English Transcript | Tradução |
| Laugh and start over | Rir e recomeçar |
| We learn a lot from small things: one summer day, I was on the beach, spying on two children in the sand. | São pequenas as coisas com que aprendemos muito: num dia de verão, eu estava na praia, espiando duas crianças na areia. |
| They worked hard, building a wet sand castle with towers, walkways and internal passages. | Trabalhavam muito, construindo um castelo de areia molhada com torres, passarelas e passagens internas. |
| When they were near the end of the project, a wave came and destroyed everything, reducing the castle to a pile of sand and foam. | Quando estavam perto do final do projeto, veio uma onda e destruiu tudo, reduzindo o castelo a um monte de areia e espuma. |
| I thought the children were going to cry, after so much effort and care. | Achei que as crianças iriam cair no choro, depois de tanto esforço e cuidado. |
| But I had a surprise: instead of crying, they ran to the beach, running away from the water, laughing, holding hands and started to build another castle. | Mas tive uma surpresa: em vez de chorar, elas correram para a praia, fugindo da água, rindo, de mãos dadas e começaram a construir outro castelo. |
| I realized that I had received an important lesson there: everything in our lives, everything that takes so much of our time and energy to build, everything is fleeting, everything is made of sand; what remains is just the relationship we have with other people. | Compreendi que havia recebido ali uma importante lição: tudo em nossas vidas, todas as coisas que gastam tanto de nosso tempo e de nossa energia para construir, tudo é passageiro, tudo é feito de areia; o que permanece é só o relacionamento que temos com as outras pessoas. |
| Sooner or later, a wave will come and destroy or erase what we have taken so long to build. | Mais cedo ou mais tarde, uma onda virá e destruirá ou apagará o que levamos tanto tempo para construir. |
| And when that happens, only the one who has someone else's hands to hold will be able to laugh and start over. | E quando isso acontecer, somente aquele que tiver as mãos de outro alguém para segurar será capaz de rir e recomeçar. |
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| 3 | is | 3 | castle | 3 | build |
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| 1 | end | 1 | else's | 1 | effort |
| 1 | destroyed | 1 | destroy | 1 | day |
| 1 | crying | 1 | cry | 1 | come |
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| 1 | building | 1 | be | 1 | away |
| 1 | another | 1 | an | 1 | after |
| 1 | able |
