再试一次

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The first time I tried to skate, 我第一次学滑冰的时候，

I fell — hard, and often. 摔得可惨了，而且摔个没完。

My ankles wobbled, my arms flailed, 脚底下直发软打晃，胳膊也跟着胡乱扑腾，

and the ice seemed to reach up and grab me every few seconds. 感觉那冰面就跟长了手似的，每隔几秒就把我拽倒一次。

A little kid half my age glided past like it was nothing. 一个年纪只有我一半大的小孩，跟没事人一样从我身边滑了过去。

I was ready to give up and go home. 我当时都想放弃回家了。

But something made me get up one more time. 但不知道为什么，我又爬起来了一次。

And then one more. 接着又是一次。

Slowly, my balance came. 慢慢地，我找到了平衡感。

By the end of the afternoon, 到了下午快结束的时候，

I could go the whole length of the rink without falling. 我已经能一口气滑过整个冰场，中途一次都不摔了。

Nothing about me had changed — 我其实一点儿都没变——

except that I'd tried again when I wanted to quit. 只不过在想放弃的时候，我又多试了一次。

That's usually all it takes. 很多时候，差的其实也就是这一下。

The people who can do things you can't aren't a different kind of person. 那些能做到你做不到的事的人，其实并没有什么特别之处。

They're just the ones who got up one more time than everybody else. 他们只不过是比其他人多爬起来了一次而已。