找誰倚靠—我們都是有故事的人 兩條路

[00:10]The two roads [00:12]It was New Year’s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. [00:17]He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. [00:27]Then he cast them on the earth, where a few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal—the tomb. [00:37]He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. [00:46]Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts. [00:55]The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, [00:59]and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads— [01:05]one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, covered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs; [01:13]the other leading to a deep, dark cave, which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils and poisonous snakes hissed and crawled. [01:25]He looked towards the sky and cried painfully, “O youth, return! O my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, [01:36]and I’ll choose the better way!” But both his father and the days of his youth had passed away. [01:44]He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness. [01:47]These were the days of his wasted life; he saw a star fall from the sky and disappeared, and this was the symbol of himself. [01:57]His remorse, which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. [02:02]Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, who entered on life together withhim. [02:08]But they had made their way to success and were now honored and happy on this New Year’s night. [02:16]The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents’ early love for him. [02:23]They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong way. [02:29]With shame and grief he dared no longer look towards that heaven where his father lives. [02:36]His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort, he burst out a cry: “Come back, my early days! Come back!” [02:47]And his youth did return, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year’s Night. [02:54]He was still young though his faults were real; [02:58]he had not yet entered the deep, dark cave, and he was still free to walk on the road which leads to the peaceful and sunny land. [03:07]Those who still linger on the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, [03:14]remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, [03:21]but in vain: “O youth, return! Oh give me back my early days!”

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