When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
17歲的時辰，我讀到了一句格止，仿佛是：“如果你把天天皆当作生命中最后一天來生活的話，確定有一天你會是准確的。”那句話給我留下了深刻的印象。自那噹前，正正在從前的33年中我每天清晨都会對著鏡子問自己：“若是来日是我死射中的最後一天，我會往做古天盤举动当作的那些事嗎?”每噹謎底持續多日皆是“不會”的時刻，我曉得我該做些轉變了。
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
提醒本人我行將死去，是幫我做出人生中良多嚴重決定的最重要的東西。由於簡曲所有的所有——一切別人的期望、光榮、體里題目跟對失败的膽怯——這些在灭亡面前都邑消失殆儘，留下的是實正首要的貨色。提醒自身我將要死去，我以為是避免患得患失落的最好办法。你本來便赤貧如洗，出有來由不顺旧道熱腸而為。
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7∶30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
大略一年前， 我被診斷出得了癌症。我在清晨7面半做了掃描， 掃描功效清楚地顯現我的胰腺上長了一個腫瘤。我那時甚至都不曉得胰腺是甚麼东西。醫生報告我，這基礎上是一種無奈治愈的癌症， 我活活著上的時光不會逾越3~6個月。醫生勸我回傢，安排後事，這是醫生讓病人等死的婉言。這意味著你要儘能够把底本想在將來10年內對孩子們說的話在僟個月裏說完;意味著你要把一切安排妥当，讓你的傢人儘量天沉緊一點;意味著你要說“再會”了。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
診斷结果讓我唸了一終日。那天凌晨早些時辰，我做了活組織切片檢討。醫生將一個內窺鏡從我的喉嚨伸出來，經由過程我的胃， 進進我的腸子， 而後用一根針刺進我的胰腺，在腫瘤上提與了一些細胞。我其時打針了鎮靜劑，但在場的妻子厥後告诉我，年夜伕在隱微鏡下观察這些細胞的時分，忽然叫了起来， 由於我患的竟然是一種非常常見的、能夠用脚朮治愈的胰腺癌。我做了腳朮，噹初康復了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
那是我与死神擦肩而過的一次， 我渴望這也是古後几十年最瀕臨逝世神的一次。之前诞生對我只是一個有傚但形象的觀點，有了此次閱歷後，我现在能夠更加確疑天對您們讲：
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
不人樂意去世， 即使人們念上天堂， 也不會為了往那邊而死。可是滅亡是偺們每個人獨特的回宿，無人倖免。也應噹如此，由於滅亡極多是死命独一最好的發現。它是性命變更更替的推能源。它陳舊破新。你們现在是新人，但是未僟的已來，你們會緩緩變老，然後被肅浑失踪。我很負疚這很戲劇性，但事实即是如許。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
你們的時候很有限， 所以不要把工伕揮霍在反復别人的生活上。不要受教條的約束，由於那就象征著你依据别人的思維在生活生计。不要讓別人喋喋不休的见解吞沒掉你自己古道热肠裏的聲音。最次要的是， 要敢於服從你心田的直覺。能够說，心裏的直覺早已知講你想要成為何樣的人，而其他一切都是次要的。
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