There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history ad nauseam, with only yourself to listen.
变老有太多恼人和糟糕的事情:身体变差,记忆力下降,没完没了地重复个人的过去,并且只有你一个听众。
But there is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won. Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say, with great aplomb: “I’m too old for this.”
不过变老还包含一种深刻的解放:获得一种得来不易的态度。只有到了60岁的时候,你才会开始泰然自若地说:“我太老了,这个不适合我。”
This line is about to become my personal mantra. I have been rehearsing it vigorously, amazed at how amply I now shrug off annoyances that once would have knocked me off my perch.
这句话将会成为我的个人箴言。我拼命地练习着这句话,然后惊讶地发现,对于那些曾经打击过自己虚荣心的恼人之事,现在的我竟然已经不屑一顾了。
A younger woman advised me that “old” may be the wrong word, that I should consider I’m too wise for this, or too smart. But old is the word I want. I’ve earned it.
一位比我小的女性建议我说,“老”这个字可能用得不对,应该换成我太“明智”或者太“聪明”了,这个不适合我。但是“老”是我想要的,是我争取到的。
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