but if you had ever experienced the distress we feel for those we love, how we participate in his joys, how difficult it is to say no, when we wish to say yes, you would no longer be astonished:
ordea baldin sentitu izan bazenu nolako kaltea egiten digun maite den norbaiten xangrinak, nola haren poza geuretzen dugun, eta zeinen zaila den ezetz erratea, bai erran nahi delarik, orduan ez zinateke deusez harrituko: nihaurk, nahiz sentitu dudan, biziki sentitu ere, ez dut oraino ulertzen.