一生重要的是什么

What Will Matter

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.

不管你是否準備好，有一天一切都會結束。不再有旭日東升，不再有燦爛白晝，不再有一分一秒的光陰。你收藏的一切，不論是彌足珍貴的還是已經忘記的，都將留給別人。

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

你的財富、名望和世俗的權利都將變成細枝末節的事情，不管你擁有的還是虧欠的，都不再重要。

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

你的嫉恨、冤仇、挫敗和妒忌之心終將消失。

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.

同樣，你的希望、雄心、計劃和未竟之事都將終止。曾經無比重要的成敗得失也將退色。

It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

你來自哪里，用什么方式生活都不再重要了。

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

你是貌美如花還是才華橫溢也不重要了。你的性別、膚色、種族都無關緊要了。

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

那么什么變得重要了呢？你有生之日的價值怎么衡量呢？

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.

重要的不是你所買到的，而是你所創造的。

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

重要的不是你的成功，而是你的價值。

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

重要的不是你學到的，而是你傳授的。

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

重要的是你的每一次正直、憐憫、勇敢和犧牲之行為能夠使人充實、讓人強大或是能夠激勵他人，讓他們以你為榜樣。

What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

重要的不是你認識多少人，而是在你離開時，有多少人感到這是永久的損失。

What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.

重要的不是你的記憶，而是愛你的人的記憶。

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

重要的是你為人懷念的時間有多長，重要的是誰在懷念你，重要的是他們為什么要懷念你。

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.

讓我們的一生不是因為偶然而變得重要，不是因為環境而變得重要。而是我們自己的選擇，選擇讓自己的生命有意義！