一个人，在其一生中，如果能够一帆风顺，没有任何阻难，当然是最好不过了；可是，这种幸运，几人能够？“天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福”，再谨慎小心，再勤勉努力，总难免有失手的时候。

失手，当然是很令人伤心痛苦的事；但是，再谨慎小心，再勤勉努力，我们仍然没法阻挡它的出现，也没法挽回它既有的伤害。除了尽人事，使失手的出现率减到最低程度，我们便只有勇敢地面对了。

保持一颗平常心是很重要的。不必过于激动，也不用太过悲伤。把它看成是上天对我们的一种考验吧！不要因此失去对正义真理的信仰。不要放弃乐观进取的心。不要放弃自己的远大理想。要踏稳脚步，一步一步地跨出去，坚持努力，不住地向前，向上……。

当然，反省检讨是必需的，反省检讨失手的原因，是人为的？是天造的？是真的无可预防？抑是应注意并能注意而不注意？反省检讨的结果，如果能够改正或改进，便需加以改正或改进，绝对不可重蹈覆辙。这是最重要的。要和颜回一样，不二过！

失手，正如一个人受伤生病了，必需治疗，使其恢复正常，发挥应有的功能。

失手既然不可避免，除尽可能小心注意，力求其出现率的降低，我们便只有勇敢地面对了。

1986年12月15日台湾日报副刊

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. @

责任编辑：林芳宇