避开生活的圈套，以吉卜林的方式

避开生活的圈套，以吉卜林的方式

这周读到了英国诗人Rudyard Kipling（拉迪亚德. 吉卜林）的一首诗《If》(《如果》)。想起了一句话，我的个性是源于我是谁，而我的态度则取决于你是谁。多要求自己，你会更独立，少要求别人，你会减少失望，凡事但求问心无愧。

If you can keep your head when all about you，are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

如果周围的人毫无理性的像你发难，你仍能镇定自若保持冷静；

如果众人对你心存怀疑，你仍能自信如常并认为他们的怀疑情有可原；

如果你肯耐心等待，不急不躁；

或者遭人诽谤，却不以牙还牙；

或者遭到憎恨，却不以恶报恶，

既不装腔作势，亦不巧言令色。

If you can dream- -and not make dreams your master;

If you can think- -and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

如果你有梦想，而又不被梦主宰

如果你有神思，而又不走火入魔

如果你坦然的面对胜利和灾难，对虚缈的胜负荣辱胸怀旷荡，

如果你能忍受有这样的无赖，歪曲你的口吐真言去蒙骗笨汉，

或者看着心血铸就的事业崩溃，仍能忍辱负重脚踏实地地重新攀登

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on! '

如果你敢把取得的一切胜利，为了更崇高的目标孤注一掷；

面临失去，决心从头再来而绝口不提自己的损失，

如果人们早已离你而去，你仍能坚守阵地奋力前驱。

身上已一无所有，唯存意志在高喊“顶住”!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings- -nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And- -which is more- -you'll be a Man, my son!

如果你能与平民交谈，且彬彬有礼，

或与国王同行——而不奴颜婢膝，

如果敌友都无法对你造成伤害；

如果众人对你信赖有加却不过分依赖，

如果你能惜时如金利用每一分钟不可追回的光阴；

那么，你的修为就会如天地般博大，并拥有了属于自己的世界

而更重要的是：孩子，你成为了真正顶天立地之人！

——吉卜林《如果》