美文：感谢有你陪伴的那些年

　　It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　“与老友傻乐相伴，莫大幸哉!”——拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生

　　When you’re a child, making friends does not require too much effort. Still, as much as I love children, I know that they can be very mean creatures. I know it first-hand, and as the sister to an adolescent girl, I am reminded of it often.

　　童年时，交朋友无需刻意便能做到。虽然很喜欢小孩，但我还是觉得他们有时候很自私。我就有个豆蔻年华的妹妹，因此深有体会。

　　But with similar schedules and mostly innocent oblivion, having the opportunity to make friends is presented to us all the way through our formative years. And somewhere along the way, if we’re lucky we can make really good friends, who when we reach adulthood, start to feel like old friends.

　　可是，成长时期的相似经历和单纯懵懂却又为我们提供了诸多交友机会，而且幸运的话，或许我们还能遇到知己，一起走向成年，形若老友。

　　There are many friends that will come into your life – some you will passively lose touch with, some will become more like acquaintances; and yet still, some you will actively ch