Zen Lesson of the Day:
Never give up your dream! Even if you have lost your right arm or left leg, in real life, or in the stock market!
This award-winning dance is a miracle and a real life story of the life struggles of a dancer who lost her right arm and a man who lost his left leg.
The girl dancer, Ma Li, lost her dance career and boyfriend after she lost her right arm in a traffic accident. She tried to commit suicide at home. Fortunately the attempt was discovered by her parents. The whole family washed their faces with tears.
The boy dancer, Xi Xiao Wei, fell from a tree at the age of four, was ran over by a rural tractor over his left leg. He slept in a coma for seven days and nights. Upon waking up and feeling so hungry, while his father was trying to give him a lecture on setbacks in life, the boy asked: “Do setbacks taste good, papa?” Dad left the food on the table and walked out in tears while murmuring: “Setbacks taste good. You eat slowly, one by one, OK?”
The boy had no background in dancing and did not know how to hold his partner. During their rehearsals, the girl had to endure countless painful falls for endless days and nights...
And the end result is this dance of amazing grace and beauty that drove millions to tears all around the world.
THE LESSON
This is another testimonial that the biggest setback in life is often the unusual springboard to unprecedented success, just like what happens in the stock market. This fall down and rise up phenomenon is the manifestation of the cosmic force behind value investing: The Law of Yin-Yang. You always have the darkest night before the light of the day.
Therefore, success springs from painful setback and struggle. Failure murks from self-congratulation and arrogance.
Just as Benjamin Graham quoted: "Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor." (HORACE -- Ars Poetica.)
Brian Zen, CFA
http://www.zenway.com - from wisdom to wealth
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獨臂+單腳 殘友「牽手」舞生命奇蹟
一對肢體殘障的舞者—馬麗和翟孝偉，他們以精湛舞蹈「牽手」，贏得全國舞蹈比賽大獎，感動數億觀眾，舞出自己生命的奇蹟。
擁有數億觀眾的中央電視台電視舞蹈大賽，是大陸重要舞蹈比賽之一，今年首度出現肢體殘障者與四肢健全的舞者同台競技，他們就是馬麗和翟孝偉。
馬麗 車禍失右臂 男友也跑了
馬麗，一九七七年出生在河南一個工人家庭，從小就有舞蹈天賦，初中畢業後，考進駐馬店舞蹈學校，一心想在表演藝術上出人頭地。一九九五年考入山東青島藝術團，同時還到北京修習表演課程。就在燦爛的未來等著她之際，一場車禍，打碎馬麗所有的夢。
十九歲那年，馬麗在一場車禍中失去右臂。「一切都變了，朋友沒了，舞不能跳了，連吃飯和生活自理都成問題」，與相交多年的男友分手，馬麗談及車禍後的那段日子，是灰色的。她意志消沉，覺得自己是廢人一度她想以自殺了結；幸好父母發現得早，避免更大的悲劇發生。與其以淚洗面，不如重新開始，對馬麗又是一大考驗。
她說，「一開始，洗臉、洗頭、洗澡都是母親幫我，我先是學習穿衣服、刷牙、洗臉」，漸漸地，馬麗能自立了。為了維持生計，她幫人賣過菜、批發服裝，後來，用自己賺的錢開一間小小的書屋。
河南媒體報導馬麗的故事，引起省殘疾人聯合會的注意。二○○一年，省殘聯邀請馬麗代表河南，參加第五屆全國殘疾人文藝表演，她跳出「黃河的女兒」，奪得金牌，重新站了起來。
翟孝偉 拖拉機斷腿 昏七天七夜
翟孝偉則有著與馬麗不同的故事。他四歲時因為頑皮，不小心被農村的拖拉機輾斷左腿，昏迷七天七夜，醒來時只覺得肚子很餓，只想著吃，竟然問父親：「挫折困難好吃不好吃？」父親回答：「挺好吃的，要一個一個來」，哭著出去了。
翟孝偉說，從小父母親就教育他要堅強獨立，在與馬麗合作跳前，他沒有一點舞蹈基礎，正準備到河南省殘聯做一名運動員。
遇到馬麗，是翟孝偉從運動員變成舞者的轉捩點。馬麗說，最先注意到是他缺左腿，因為自己缺右臂，兩人共舞，可以讓舞姿達到完美境界。
翟孝偉沒任何舞蹈基礎，要讓他進入狀況，馬麗花費許多功夫。一開始，翟孝偉沒有信心，馬麗帶他去看表演。被馬麗舞蹈感動的翟孝偉表示，練體育，不管是跳高、跳遠，它展示給別人看的，你就是一個殘疾人；舞蹈就不一樣了，它可以把美展現給觀眾。
牽手 舞自己故事 找到幸福路
肢體的缺陷，讓馬麗和翟孝偉在各自的人生當中，品嘗生活的嚴酷和艱辛，合作演繹舞蹈「牽手」，讓他們走出一片天。
「牽手」，講述兩個肢體殘缺的青年相互扶持、超越自我、重新找到生命尊嚴和幸福的故事，就是講述馬麗和翟孝偉兩人的真實故事。
馬麗與翟孝偉今年都是卅歲。在舞台上找回自我和新人生的馬麗，也找到伴侶，男友小她四歲，兩人計畫明年結婚。而不知不覺中愛上舞蹈的翟孝偉表示，自己要一直跳舞，直到跳不動為止。
有一天他不能再跳舞，想做什麼？翟孝偉充滿信心地說：「總有希望，雖說只有一條腿，但是我還有雙手，還有一個不算笨的腦袋，我想做什麼事都會成功的。」
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