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Certain large investment firms have established freedom from connection

有些大投资公司建立起了脱离联系的自由

But we as people never do

但我们作为人从不这样

and we're not supposed to, and we shouldn't want to

我们也不该这样 我们也不想这样

We are individuals, obviously, but we are more than that

我们很显然是一些个人 但我们并不止这些

So here's the thing about changing the world

下面是关于改变世界

It turns out that's not even the question, because you don't have a choice

这实际上都不是问题 因为你们没有选择

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is

你们将要改变世界 这实际上是由世界的属性所决定的

You do not pass through this life, it passes through you

不是你经过这一生 而是这一生从你身旁经过

You experience it, you interpret it, you act

你只是体会它 解释它 然后你采取行动

and then it is different

然后它就会变得不同

That happens constantly

这会持续发生

You are changing the world

你们在改变世界

You always have been, and now

你们一直都在如此 而现在

it becomes real on a level that it hasn't been before

在之前所未有过的层面上 它变得真实

And that's why I've been talking only about you and the tension within you

正因为此 我一直只讨论你们 以及你们心中的张力

because you are not in a cliched sense, but in a weirdly literal sense, the future

因为 你们是未来 这不是陈词滥调 它具有奇特的字面意义

After you walk up here and walk back down, you're going to be the present

你们上台来 然后下台去 你们会成为当下

You will be the broken world

你们将成为这个被打破的世界

and the act of changing it in a way that you haven't been before

而且你们将以从未有过的方式改变它

You will be so many things

你们将有很多作为

and the one thing that I wish I'd known and want to say

有一点我希望我早点知道 而且告诉你们

is, don't just be yourself

也就是 别只成为你自己

Be all of yourselves

成为所有的自己

Don't just live

不要只是活着

Be that other thing connected to death

还要联系到另一端的死亡

Be life. Live all of your life

过好生活 尊重所有的生活

Understand it, see it, appreciate it

理解它 看透它 感激它

And have fun. Thank you

并过得开心 谢谢

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介

本视频是美国著名作家、影剧导演及影剧监制乔斯·韦登在卫斯理大学2013届毕业典礼上的演讲。十三分钟的演讲看似沉重，不断提起死亡等话题，实际上是勉励毕业生不要一味地去否认死亡等生命中不可或缺的另一面。他认为人生是生和死，积极和消极之间连起的一条直线，人只有明白了这种联系，尊重生活中的一切，理解它，看透它，感激它，才能过得开心。