找誰倚靠—我們都是有故事的人(慢速) 要緊的事

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[00:11]You sure are lucky... [00:15]It was a hot, muggy August afternoon, and I had every reason to feel sorry for myself. [00:24]A comedy of hassles began with the normal airport security gauntlet, followed by a random drug test, and a missed flight home due to a number of mechanical, weather and late inbound flight problems. [00:32]Now my flight home was full and late. [00:35]During the usual pandemonium at the gate, I noticed a 5-year-old boy standing by his mother and watching me. [00:43]He looked at me, then my bag, then back at me.　　 [00:47]Cautiously, he left his mother’s side and slowly began to walk toward me, glancing between my bag, his mother and me. [00:56]“Great,” I thought, “now I have to babysit a 5-year-old. My day is now complete.” [01:03]As he came closer, I was both relieved and alarmed that it wasn’t me he was after. [01:09]It was my hat!　　 [01:11]I started to tell him not to bother my things, but something made me stop and watch. [01:17]He stopped in front of my bag, looking at my hat, then up at me. [01:22]With wide eyes, he gently touched the bill of my hat, running his index finger slowly along the edge, carefully touching the emblem. [01:31]Again, he looked up at me, now smiling, but saying nothing. [01:36]I asked him if he would like to wear my captain hat. [01:39]He excitedly nodded his head, still smiling. [01:42]I placed my hat on his head, but it fell down around his ears. [01:46]He didn’t seem to mind and held it up in the proper position with both hands. [01:51]He ran to show his mother, then back to me still smiling from ear to ear. [01:56]With much reverence and ceremony, he slowly removed my hat with both hands and presented it to me as though it were the crown jewels. [02:06]I put my hat on and gave him an airplane card. [02:10]This, too, he held with both hands in awe. [02:13]After this exchange, he still hadn’t spoken, although I knew he was excited. [02:19]I also was happy that I had been briefly distracted from my self-pity fest. [02:24]Still holding the card carefully with both hands, he looked up at me and said, “Mister, you sure are lucky.” [02:32]“Yes,” I said, “I sure am.” [02:35]I contemplated the wisdom of a 5-year-old, as I got the last seat on that flight home.

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What will matter

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel① to irrelevance②. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges③, resentments④, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. So will your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists expire⑤ too.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought but what you built, not what you got but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered⑥ or encouraged others to emulate⑦ your example.
What will matter is not your competence but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.
What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live in those who love you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
① shrivel v. 枯萎，干枯
② irrelevance n. 不相干，無關(guān)緊要
③ grudge n. 懷恨，怨恨
④ resentment n. 怨恨，憤恨
⑤ expire v. 期滿，終止
⑥ empower v. 授權(quán)，使能夠
⑦ emulate v. 仿效，模仿

要緊的事

不管有沒有準(zhǔn)備好，總有一天一切將走到終點。

不再有日出，不再有分鐘，不再有小時，也不再有日子。所有你積攢的東西，不管是你所珍藏的的還是已遺忘的，都將歸屬于他人。

你的財產(chǎn)，榮譽和一時的權(quán)力終將枯竭，最后無關(guān)緊要。你擁有的和你虧欠的都將毫無意義。

你的怨懟，憤恨，沮喪和嫉妒最終都會消失。你的希望，抱負(fù)，計劃和安排同樣會終止。

你曾那么重視的輸贏也將褪去光彩。

你從何而來，臨終前要往何處去都已不再重要。

你是否美麗，是否聰慧也都無所謂。甚至你的性別，膚色，最后都無關(guān)緊要。

那么到底什么才重要？你一生的價值將如何判定？

重要的是你創(chuàng)造了什么而非買到了什么，不是你擁有了什么，而是你付出了什么。

重要的是你的存在意義而非你的成功。

重要的是你教授的東西而非你學(xué)會的東西。

重要的是你正直、憐憫、勇敢、奉獻(xiàn)的舉動豐富了他人的生活，令人以你為榜樣，為鞭策。

重要的是你的性格而非你的競爭力。

重要的不是你認(rèn)識多少人，而是你離開時會有多少人深感痛苦。

重要的不是你自己的記憶，而是那些深愛著你的人的記憶。

重要的是你會被銘記多久，是出于何種原因又是被何種人所銘記的。

過有意義的生活不是偶然而至的，它不由環(huán)境決定，只取決于你的選擇。

選擇過一種有意義的生活。

態(tài)度決定一切。對死亡的思考可以讓生命變得更加純凈。