第620期:火遍朋友圈的英文诗-You're Not Late! You're Not Early(在线收听) |
每个人从生下来都在接受对比,学会对比。上学时比成绩,比才艺。高考时比学校,毕业后比工作。谈恋爱时比对象,工作后便开始收入,比职位,比房子,比车子。结婚生子后,又开始比孩子,循环往复,周而复始。 对比本身没有太大问题,古人云:见贤思齐焉,见不贤而内自省也。意思是几个人在一起,其中必有一人是可以学习的能者,选择他的长处学习,看见没有德行的人,自己就要反省是否有和他一样的错误。 但是我们很多人在对比中,要么变得自卑焦虑,停滞不前,且变得抑郁。要么变得暗自窃喜,得意忘形,甚至嘲讽别人。今天这首小诗很好的解决了这个问题,它告诉我们:每个人都有属于自己的时区,不要将自己盲目地和他人比较。 New Words: secure: vt.保护; (使) 获得; 使安全; 担保; Federal leaders continued their efforts to secure a ceasefire 联邦领导人继续争取促成停火协议。 mock vt.& vi.愚弄,嘲弄 I thought you were mocking me 我还以为你是在嘲笑我。 New York is 3 hours ahead of California, 纽约时间比加州时间早三个小时, but it does not make California slow. Someone graduated at the age of 22, but waited 5 years before securing a good job! Someone became a CEO at 25, and died at 50. While another became a CEO at 50, and lived to 90 years. Someone is still single, while someone else got married. Obama retires at 55, but Trump starts at 70. Absolutely everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone. People around you might seem to go ahead of you, some might seem to be behind you. But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME. Don't envy them or mock them. They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours! Life is about waiting for the right moment to act. So, RELAX. You're not LATE. You're not EARLY. You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you. |
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