一個人，在其一生中，如果能夠一帆風順，沒有任何阻難，當然是最好不過了；可是，這種幸運，幾人能夠？「天有不測風雲，人有旦夕禍福」，再謹慎小心，再勤勉努力，總難免有失手的時候。

失手，當然是很令人傷心痛苦的事；但是，再謹慎小心，再勤勉努力，我們仍然沒法阻擋它的出現，也沒法挽回它既有的傷害。除了盡人事，使失手的出現率減到最低程度，我們便只有勇敢地面對了。

保持一顆平常心是很重要的。不必過於激動，也不用太過悲傷。把它看成是上天對我們的一種考驗吧！不要因此失去對正義真理的信仰。不要放棄樂觀進取的心。不要放棄自己的遠大理想。要踏穩腳步，一步一步地跨出去，堅持努力，不住地向前，向上……。

當然，反省檢討是必需的，反省檢討失手的原因，是人為的？是天造的？是真的無可預防？抑是應注意並能注意而不注意？反省檢討的結果，如果能夠改正或改進，便需加以改正或改進，絕對不可重蹈覆轍。這是最重要的。要和顏回一樣，不二過！

失手，正如一個人受傷生病了，必需治療，使其恢復正常，發揮應有的功能。

失手既然不可避免，除盡可能小心注意，力求其出現率的降低，我們便只有勇敢地面對了。

1986年12月15日台灣日報副刊

Make a Slip of the Hand   Hsu ChiCheng

Of course, it’s only the best a person in his whole life will to have a favourable wind all the way, not any obstruct; however, how many people can hold this kind of lucky? “Storms gather without warning and misfortune befalls men overnight.” How buck one’s ideals up the most, how diligent the most, will always hard to avoid the time of making a slip of the hand.

Of cause, make a slip of the hand, is a thing of lament; however, how buck one’s ideals up the most, how diligent the most, we can’t bar its coming, and also can’t retrieve its harm already. Except do our best to reduce the rate of the appearance of make a slip of the hand, we just to face it bravely.

It’s very importance to maintain an ordinary mind. Don’t need too excite, and also don’t too grieve. Treat it as it’s the test to us from heaven! Don’t lose the faith to the justice and truth. Don’t give up the mind of optimistic and be enterprising. Don’t give up self great ideal. Steps steadily, steps ahead one by one, persists in diligent, forward ceaselessly, upward…

Of course, it’s necessary to self-reflection and self-criticism, self-reflection and self- criticism the cause of making the slip of the hand, is it the artificial? Or is it inborn ? Is it can’t prevent truly? Or ought to attention and can be attention but not attention? The result of self-reflection and self-criticism, correct or revise if it can correct or revise, can’t back to the previous living is not making the same mistakes again absolutely. This is the most important thing. Must like Yan Hui, no second mistake!

Make a slip of the hand, just as a person gets harm or sick, must be cure, to be restored, plays to the role of normal function.

For it’s no escape to make a slip of the hand, except do best to pay great attention on it, do best to lower the rate of its appearance, we just ought to face it bravely. @

責任編輯：林芳宇