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上班时间没有好好工作，写了点东西勉励自己。

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes--and most fools do--but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)

「知错能改，善莫大焉」是句充满中国智慧及包容的话语， 而英国诗人Alexander Pope所说的“to err is human; to forgive is divine”则包含更多人性的理解。

尽管这样，认错还是需要勇气的，错误越大，需要的勇气越多；认错更是需要胸襟的，细微的过错也是需要宽阔的胸襟去面对的。人非圣贤，孰能无过呢。错了就错了吧，认识到错误才能正面的面对问题，才能很好地解决问题，才能减少再犯同样错误的可能。但认错的胸襟不是每个人都有的，理性的想法也不会每时每刻都出现。更多的还是执迷不悟的偏执和黑白颠倒的辩白。

永远都不能看到自己错误的人会越抹越黑；能清楚地看到自己的错误但是却怎样也不能承认的人会越抹越黑； 永远都受不了委屈的人会越抹越黑。

王尔德说经验是我们给我们所犯的错误的命名。不过我还是喜欢《芝麻街》里面唱的：你犯了错误还是我的朋友， 我还一样的喜欢你。

I've a special secret children ought to know;

It's about the little mistakes you make as you begin to grow.

If you make a mistake, you shouldn't start to cry.

Mistakes are not so bad, and here is why:

Oh everyone makes mistakes.

Oh, yes they do

Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too;

Big people, small people, matter of fact, all people!

Everyone makes mistakes, so why can't you?

If you make a mistake while counting to ten,

Well don't get mad and don't be sad;

Just start to count again.

And if you should only get to eight or nine,

I'm still your friend and I still like you fine,

'Cause everyone makes mistakes.

Oh, yes they do

Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too;

Big people, small people, matter of fact, all people!

Everyone makes mistakes, so why can't you?

If you spill a glass of milk all over the floor,

Well, your mom and dad still like you just as much as they did before,

'Cause when Mother and Dad were just as small as you,

I'll bet that they knocked their milk over too.

'Cause everyone makes mistakes.

Oh, yes they do

Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too;

Big people, small people, matter of fact, all people!

Everyone makes mistakes, so why can't you?

If everyone in the whole wide world makes mistakes,

Then why can't you?

A communication: magnificently our great Emperor soothes and pacifies China and the foreign countries, regarding all with the same kindness. If there is profit, then he shares it with the peoples of the world; if there is harm, then he removes it on behalf of the world. This is because he takes the mind of heaven and earth as his mind.

The kings of your honorable country by a tradition handed down from generation to generation have always been noted for their politeness and submissiveness. We have read your successive tributary memorials saying, "In general our countrymen who go to trade in China have always received His Majesty the Emperor's gracious treatment and equal justice." and so on. Privately we are delighted with the way in which the honorable rulers of your country deeply understand the grand principles and are grateful for the Celestial grace. For this reason the Celestial Court in soothing those from afar has redoubled its polite and kind treatment. The profit from trade has been enjoyed by them continuously for two hundred years. This is the source from which your country has become known for its wealth.

But after a long period of commercial intercourse, there appear among the crowd of barbarians both good persons and bad, unevenly. Consequently there are those who smuggle opium to seduce the Chinese people and so cause the spread of the poison to all provinces. Such persons who only care to profit themselves, and disregard their harm to others, are not tolerated by the laws of heaven and are unanimously hated by human beings. His Majesty the Emperor, upon hearing of this, is in a towering rage. He has especially sent me, his commissioner, to come to Kwangtung, and together with the governor-general and governor jointly to investigate and settle this matter.

All those people in China who sell opium or smoke opium should receive the death penalty. We trace the crime of those barbarians who through the years have been selling opium, then the deep harm they have wrought and the great profit they have usurped should fundamentally justify their execution according to law. We take into to consideration, however, the fact that the various barbarians have still known how to repent their crimes and return to their allegiance to us by taking the 20,183 chests of opium from their storeships and petitioning us, through their consular officer [superintendent of trade], Elliot, to receive it. It has been entirely destroyed and this has been faithfully reported to the Throne in several memorials by this commissioner and his colleagues.

Fortunately we have received a specially extended favor Born His Majesty the Emperor, who considers that for those who voluntarily surrender there are still some circumstances to palliate their crime, and so for the time being he has magnanimously excused them from punishment. But as for those who again violate the opium prohibition, it is difficult for the law to pardon them repeatedly. Having established new regulations, we presume that the ruler of your honorable country, who takes delight in our culture and whose disposition is inclined towards us, must be able to instruct the various barbarians to observe the law with care. It is only necessary to explain to them the advantages and advantages and then they will know that the legal code of the Celestial Court must be absolutely obeyed with awe.

We find your country is sixty or seventy thousand li [three li make one mile, ordinarily] from China Yet there are barbarian ships that strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians. That is to say, the great profit made by barbarians is all taken from the rightful share of China. By what right do they then in return use the poisonous drug to injure the Chinese people? Even though the barbarians may not necessarily intend to do us harm, yet in coveting profit to an extreme, they have no regard for injuring others. Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries -- how much less to China! Of all that China exports to foreign countries, there is not a single thing which is not beneficial to people: they are of benefit when eaten, or of benefit when used, or of benefit when resold: all are beneficial. Is there a single article from China which has done any harm to foreign countries? Take tea and rhubarb, for example; the foreign countries cannot get along for a single day without them. If China cuts off these benefits with no sympathy for those who are to suffer, then what can the barbarians rely upon to keep themselves alive? Moreover the woolens, camlets, and longells [i.e., textiles] of foreign countries cannot be woven unless they obtain Chinese silk. If China, again, cuts off this beneficial export, what profit can the barbarians expect to make? As for other foodstuffs, beginning with candy, ginger, cinnamon, and so forth, and articles for use, beginning with silk, satin, chinaware, and so on, all the things that must be had by foreign countries are innumerable. On the other hand, articles coming from the outside to China can only be used as toys. We can take them or get along without them. Since they are not needed by China, what difficulty would there be if we closed our the frontier and stopped the trade? Nevertheless, our Celestial Court lets tea, silk, and other goods be shipped without limit and circulated everywhere with