時間‧一個旅人

不管你是否有心理準備，人生總有盡頭。

(圖文來源：網路信件轉寄)

人生的意義?
What Matters ?

 
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
不管你是否有心理準備與否，人生總有盡頭。

 
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
當時刻到來，你不再有分分秒秒也沒有晨昏晝夜，

 
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,will pass to someone else.
你所收集的事物，想珍藏或己遺忘的，終將傳讓他人。

 
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
無論擁有財富、名望及權力都將無用，無論欠人或被欠都已不再重要，

 
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
妒忌、怨恨、挫折與猜忌終將消失。

 
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.
同樣的，你擁有的希望、抱負、計畫及執行的細節都將終止，

 
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
曾經看來是重要的輸贏大事也都將隨之褪色消失，

 
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end.
從何處而來或在何處留下足跡，到頭來己不重要。

 
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant，Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
你是否美麗動人或明艷照人並不重要，甚至性別及膚色也將沒有關係。

 
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
什麼事情是重要的？人的價值要如何衡量？

 

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
快樂的生活並非來自偶然，

It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
也非命中註定，而是自己一連串的選擇。