意义 第12期

翻译：白色声响

Significance

Seize today, the moment, this second.

But reach for significance, not success.

Success is often the illusion[幻象] we see when we dream of what we think will make us happy. It is not the ideal, just a hallucination[幻觉] of the actual ideal. But when we seize today and the significance, we find that nothing else matters, because what else is there but those things that are significant to us?

I don’t think all people will reach for excellence let alone ever achieve it. Many will live lives of “quiet,but in the end will have found some significance family, friends, even strangers will be a part of that.

To think that we will all be reaching for greatness is a disservice[伤害] to the masses of fellow humans who don’t “make it.However, there is a promise that all of us have; that is we have lived and we were here to experience the many things that gave us significance.

Living with passion is a nice idea, sure we should, I guess, try to. But for those who just live, don’t feel bad...that’s what I do and I am happy as well.

You may not lose all the weight you want, find the man or woman of your dreams, or make a million dollars. But you will be able to say I was here and I did my best.

When it all comes down to[可归结为某事物] it, significance is the only thing that matters anyway...no matter what anyone else says.

把握今天，把握此刻，把握现在的每分每秒。

让意义成为你的追求，而不是成功。

成功通常是对某些事情的幻想，我们以为这些事情可以使我们快乐。它并非理想，只不过是理想的一个幻景。但是，当我们把抓住了今天，把握住了意义，我们就会发现其它事情都可置之度外。因为，除了那些对我们有意义的事物以外，其它的还有什么意义呢？

在我看来，并非所有人都立志追求卓越，姑且免提其中有多少人可以实现这个目标。许多人都将“默默无闻”地生活，而到了最后他们将会发现其中的真意―家庭、朋友，甚至素昧平生的陌生人也可能是构成意义的一部分。

那种认为我们都在追求卓越的想法，是对身边许多并不以为然的同伴的一种伤害。然而，我们都得到了一种应许；那就是我们都活过，我们在此就是为了体会那些给予我们存在意义的诸多事物。

充满激情地生活是个美妙的主意，毫无疑问我们应该努力这样生活，我想。但对于那些仅仅是活着就足够的人来说，不要感到难受―我就是这么一个人，我觉得这样活着也很快乐。

也许你不能把想减的磅数都减掉，或许找不到梦中的白马王子或者白雪公主，也未必能变成百万富翁，但你总能够说：“我活过，而且我尽力了。”

寻根究底，只有意义是真正重要的―不管其他人怎么说。