英語哲學散文:何為重要?What Will Matter?
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Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity 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 and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate 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 of those who loved 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.
無論是否準備好，總有壹天它都會走到盡頭。那裏沒有日出，沒有白天，沒有小時和分鐘。妳收集的所有東西，不管妳珍惜或忘記與否，它們都將流入他人手中。
不管是妳得到的或是妳欠別人的，可妳的財產、名譽和權勢也都會變成和妳毫不相幹的東西。
妳的怨恨、憤慨、挫折和妒忌最終也將消失。
因此，妳的希望、抱負、計劃以及行動日程表也將全部結束。當初看得比較重的成功得失也會消失。
妳來自何方，住在窮人區還是富人區也都不重要了。
妳昔日的漂亮與輝煌也都不重要了，妳的性別、膚色、種族地位也將消失。
因此，什麽重要呢?怎麽衡量妳有生之年的價值呢?
重要的不是妳買了什麽，而是妳創造了什麽;不是妳得到了什麽，而是妳給予了什麽。
重要的不是妳成功了，而是妳生命的意義。
重要的不是妳學到了什麽，而是妳傳授了什麽。
重要的是每個行動之中都有正直和勇氣的氣概，偉大的同情心和犧牲精神，並且鼓勵他人遵從榜樣。
重要的不是妳的能力，而是妳的性格。
重要的不是妳認識多少人，而是在妳離開後，別人會認為是個永遠的損失。
重要的不是妳想念誰，而是愛妳的人想念妳。
重要的是別人會記妳多長時間，誰記著妳，為什麽記著妳。
生命中重要的是平安無事。
那不是環境的問題，而是選擇的問題。
選擇有意義的人生吧!