Malik uses this story as a metaphor for losing oneself, one sense of meaning of purpose.

马尔克用这个故事作为隐喻来比喻人的迷失自我，迷失寻找目的意义。

Not to dare is to lose oneself, that is when we don't cope, when we avoid.

而我们不去应对，选择逃避，却步不前则会迷失自我。

Now you might feel that it cannot be particularly pleasant to " lose oneself" .

现在你可能会觉得“迷失自己” 并不是一件特别愉快的事情。

It's easy to lose oneself in the staggering statistics - millions of girls deprived of education, countless women shackled by societal expectations, and innumerable souls suffocated under the burdens of tradition.

人们很容易在令人震惊的统计数据中迷失自己——数以百万计的女孩被剥夺了受教育的机会，无数的妇女受到社会期望的束缚，无数的灵魂在传统的重担下窒息。