一個小男孩問他的媽媽：＂你為什麼要哭呢？＂
＂因為我是一個女人。＂她告訴他。
＂我不明白。＂他說。
他的媽媽擁抱著他說：＂你永遠不會明白的。＂

後來小男孩就問他爸爸：＂媽媽為什麼會毫無理由的哭呢？＂
＂所有女人都會無緣無故地哭！＂他爸爸似乎也說不出個所以然。

小男孩長大了，成為一個男人，但仍就不懂女人為什麼哭泣。最後，他打電話給上帝。當上帝拿起電話時，他問道：＂上帝，為什麼女人會那麼容易哭泣呢？＂

上帝說，＂當我創造女人時，必須讓她成為很特別的人。我做了她的肩膀堅強的足以承擔這沉重的世界，但又足夠的溫柔能給他人以安慰。我讓她的內心足夠堅強，能夠承受分娩的痛苦和來自她的孩子常常的反叛。我給她足夠的耐心，當別人已經放棄的時候，使她毫無怨言地繼續照顧自己的家人渡過疾病和疲困的生活。我給了她在任何和所有情況下無條件愛自己孩子的感情，即使她的孩子傷害了她。我給了她能包容她丈夫所犯的過錯的力量，並用他的一根肋骨造出了她来保护他的心。我賦予她智慧讓她知道一個好丈夫是絕不會傷害他的妻子，但有時我也會考驗她是否有堅決站在他身旁的決心。最後，我讓她可以流淚。這是只有她才獨有，可在她任何時候需要時使用。＂

＂你看，我的兒子，＂上帝繼續說，＂女人的美，不是在她穿的衣服，也不是在她的身材，或者她的髮型。一個女人的美麗必須從她的眼睛去發現，因為那是通往她的心靈的門檻 —而她的心靈正是愛居住的地方。＂

作者：未知

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?”

“Because I’m a woman,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “And you never will.”

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, “God, why do women cry so easily?”

God said, “When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.”

“You see my son,” said God, “the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart — the place where love resides.”

Author: Unknown

濟慈譯於2013年5月12日