[旺旺英语论坛]Have Just a Little Willingness to Celebrate Ourselves
Barbara
Have Just a Little Willingness to Celebrate Ourselves
What would our world be like if each person made it his or her concern to catch someone doing something right? Wouldn’t we have cause to celebrate daily?
So often our focus is on the negatives in life. We look for what is wrong, for weakness, for holes in the armor of another. Why? Perhaps the answer lies in our need to feel superior to another in our learned behavior, to compare ourselves constantly to those around us. If our self-concept is low. We feel that almost everyone is better, more likable, stronger, more talented, more capable, more everything than we are. On the other hand, a poor self-image can also result in what we interestingly call a superiority complex. To cover up our feelings of inadequacy, we behave as though we know better, act better, think better and, even, are better than those around us.
A healthy self-concept allows us to ackowledge our abilities and talents, our strengths and weakness. There is no need to compare ourselves to others in order to recognize traits in ourselves. Self-acknowledgment is ont conceit or arrogance. Self-acknowledgement is perceiving the truth about oneself so that one may freely move forward in life without the fetter of unproductive modesty. Self-acknowlegement is inner work, not shouted from the rooftops but cherished within. This is the cause for celebration!
Are you willing to feel good about yourself? To notice when you do things well and enjoy the feeling?
Are you willing to celebrate your uniqueness and the unique gift you have to offer to the world? Are you willing to acknowledge others for the things they do well? For the contributions they make to your life?
Are you willing to catch yourself and others doing something right?
Wonderful! Then you have the willingness to celebrate, to join with others to make the world a place of celebration. After all, all it takes is a little willingness!
Tianxia 摘录
Self-acknowlegement is inner work, not shouted from the rooftops but cherished within.
Tianxia 感言
For those young people who are going to graduate, who you are and what you can do are very important, however, how could one person recognize hismeslf is also very important. I hope you can get something from it.
疑难句翻译练习
Self-acknowledgement is perceiving the truth about oneself so that one may freely move forward in life without the fetter of unproductive modesty.
你来自何方并不重要，你如何生活也不重要。
There’s equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
尽管价值是相同的，但是切勿将其与做好人而受人爱戴混为一谈。
Firstly you need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end.
首先，你要制定一个你能力之外的目标。你必须学会完全蔑视自己的能力极限。
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.___ T.Carlyle
——生活之悲哀不在于承受几何，而在于错过什么。
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.
——重要的不是你的回忆，而是爱你的人的回忆。
What will matter is not how long you will be remembered, but by whom and for what.
——重要的不在于你能被人惦记多久，而在于被谁惦记和为何惦记你。
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.
——不管你有否心理准备，终有一天一切都会结束。不再有日出，不再有白昼，不再有时刻。你的所有收藏，珍爱的或遗忘的，终将转手他人。
The only problem unconsciously assumed by all Chinese Philosophers to be of any importance is: How shall we enjoy life, and who can best enjoy life.
不知不觉中，所有的中国先哲们都认为最重要的一个问题是： 该怎样享受生活？谁最会享受生活？
Self-acknowledgement is perceiving the truth about oneself so that one may freely move forward in life without the fetter of unproductive modesty.
——自我认知就是认清你自己，从而在生活中自由前迈，不受无用的谦虚的牵绊。
What would our world be like if each person made it his or her concern to catch someone doing something right? Wouldn’t we have cause to celebrate daily?
——世界将会是如何：如果我们每个人都去关注自己或他人做对的事？不会是每天都有理由庆祝么？
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel1 to irrelevance2. It win not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
——你的财富、名声以及暂时的权势都将化为尘烟。你的所有，以及别人对你的亏欠，不过是些鸿毛。
Self-acknowlegement is inner work, not shouted from the rooftops but cherished within.
自我认知是“内功”，不是呼喊于屋顶，而是珍藏于内心。