七月 23 2008
What will matter
昨天下午，和張主任談了好久好久，原本一點半和他約，結果我們三點多，才說完。說了那麼久的內容就在，我要增加我的見識，見識要廣，才能真的知道以後想做甚麼，接下來就要看我在半年的美國生活啦，看我是否該去社大讀。
Anyway, 我覺得在和主任的談話中，最讓我覺得值得的東西，是主任給我的一篇文章。
it was by Michael Josephson 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 shrivel to irrelevance. Ir will not matter what you owned or what you sere owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies wil finally disapperar. So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists will expire. The wins an dlosses that once seem ed 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 sere 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 signifiance. 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, empowered or encouraged others to enmlate 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 feela lasting loss when your gone, What will matter is not memories but the memories that live in those who loved you . What will matter is how long you will be remembered, my 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.
多棒的文章，要緊的不是你買下的，而是你建造的一切；不是你的所得，而是你得付出；要緊的不是你得成功，而是你的重要性；要緊的不是你學到的，而是你教導別人的東西；要緊的是你行為中的操守、同情心、勇氣，或犧牲奉獻，引領感動鼓舞其他人來效法你的作為，要緊的不是你的能力，而是你的品格；要緊的不是你認識多少人，而是當你撒手離世時，有多少人悵然若失；要緊的不是你的記憶，而是愛你得人對你的記憶；要緊的是世人對你的懷念多久、是誰、因何事而懷念你，要緊的人生並非碰巧發生，是自己的選擇，而不是環境的決定。