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When I was a child I was severely myopic from who knows what age.
在我还小的时候我就严重近视了，具体不知道几岁。
I didn't know that you could see leaves on a tree from the ground.
我从地上看不到树上的叶子。
But something happened before I got glasses and that was that I was let loose with a mask and snorkel.
但是，在我戴眼镜之前发生了一些事，那就是我戴着潜水镜和呼吸管释放了自己。
For the first time I saw things clearly because of the refraction of the water.
因为水的折射，我第一次看得清清楚楚。
You can imagine how beautiful it would be when you see detail that you'd never known you could see.
你可以想象，当你看到那些你从来都不知道自己能看到的细节时，那会是多么地美好。
What were pond weeds above the water, were forests of stems under the water,
水面上的水草是什么？水底下的茎丛是什么？
and in this little forest there would be sunfish.
在这个小树林里会有太阳鱼。
Then occasionally a big, larger predator like a pickerel or a perch or a bass goes by.
偶尔会有更大的捕食者经过，比如梭鱼、鲈鱼或鲈鱼。
There's a flashbulb moment, as they say, where I just had to be underwater looking at life that way for the rest of my life.
就像他们所说，在闪光灯时刻，我不得不在水下度过余生，以这种方式看待生活。
