What Life Is All About?
Life isn’t about keeping score. It’s not about how many friends you have,
or how many people call you, or how accepted or unaccepted you are,
not about if you have plans this weekend,
or if you’re alone.
人生不是一场记分赛,
它不在于你拥有多少朋友,
有多少人给你打电话,
还是有多少人欢迎或排斥你;
不在于这个周末你是有安排,
还是独自度过;
It isn’t about who you’re dating, who you used to date, how many people you’ve dated, or if you haven’t been with anyone at all.
不在于你正在、曾经和谁约会,
或与多少人约会过,或者从未与人约会过;不在于你的家庭出身,
或者你拥有多少财富,
还是你开什么车,上什么学校。
It’s not about how beautiful or ugly you are,
or what clothes you wear,
what shoes you have on,
or what kind of music you listen to.
人生不在于你长相的美丑;
不在于你穿什么衣服,
穿什么鞋,听什么音乐;
It’s not about if your hair is
blonde, red, black, brown,
or green, or if your skin is too light or too dark.
不在于你的头发是金色、红色、黑色、褐色还是绿色;
也不在于你的皮肤是黑还是白。
It’s not about what grades you get,how smart you are,
how smart everyone else thinks you are,
or how smart standardized tests say you are,
or if this teacher likes you,
or if this guy / girl likes you,
人生不在于你得了多少分,
你有多么聪明,
或别人认为你有多么聪明,
还是智力测试说明你有多么聪明;
不在于这位老师是否喜欢你,
这个男孩或女孩是否喜欢你;
or what clubs you’re in,
or how good you are at “your” sport. It’s not about representing
your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will “accept the written you”.
不在于你加入什么俱乐部,
或你多么擅长某项运动;
不在于你在一张试卷上的表现,
况且没有谁会接受那个“书面的你”。
But life is about whom you love and whom you hurt.
It’s about whom you make happy or unhappy purposefully.
It’s about keeping or betraying trust.
It’s about friendship,
used as sanctity,
or as a weapon.
然而,人生在于你爱谁和伤害了谁;
在于你有意逗谁开心或惹谁生气;
在于你是遵守诺言还是背信弃义;
在于你是将友谊当做圣洁之物
还是一种工具;
It’s about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening,
about starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.
It’s about what judgments you pass and why,
and who your judgments are spread to.
在于你出口伤人还是让人耳沐春风;
在于你是否散布谣言及捏造谈资;
在于你作出的判断和如此判断的缘由,以及将你的判断向谁推广。
But most of all,
it’s about using your life to touch or poison other people’s hearts
in such a way that could never occurred alone.
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected
and those choices are what life is all about.
但最重要的是,
人生在于你是用你的人生
去感动他人的心灵
还是无法避免地给他人造成伤害。
如何影响这些心灵在于你的选择,
那么这些选择就是
你人生全部的意义。