有哪些事是50多岁人知道而20多岁的人不知道的？（中英文版）

What do 50-year-olds know that 20-year-olds often don't?

有哪些事是50多岁人知道而20多岁的人不知道的？

When your heart breaks, you will feel like you will never love again, and you will be alone forever and ever. That feeling is a lie. The night passes. Dawn comes. You will be fine.

当你伤心到心碎时，你觉得自己不会再爱了，你以为自己将会孤独终老。那种感觉只是个谎言。黑暗过去就是黎明。你总会变好的。

When you meet a stranger and your eyes lock across a crowded room, and every fiber of your heart and soul sings “Yes! Yes! This is the one! I am in love!” you are not in love. That's the very old part of your brain saying “Our offspring would have awesome immune systems.”You can not love someone you do not know. When you feel that feeling a couple of times, you'll learn to recognize it for what it is.

当你遇到一位陌生人，你的眼睛紧盯着某个充满人的房间，你的心脏的每个细胞和灵魂都叫了起来，“是的，是的，就是她，我恋爱了！” 你不是恋爱了，这只是你脑子里的老旧的部分在喊“我们的后代的免疫系统肯定好”你不能爱上一个你不了解的人。你多感受几次，就会知道如何认识到这究竟是什么感觉了。

Movie stars do not generally make good science analysts, political thinkers, or life coaches. If you take medical advice from former Playboy centerfolds instead of doctors, or think that B-list movie actors are better sources of political ideas than actual political scholars,you're apt to end up somewhere you really don't want to be. 电影明星通常成为不了特别好的科学分析人员，政治思想家，或者人生导师。如果你从花花公子的中间插页获取医疗练习，或者以为B级片演员的政治理念比真正的学者还正确，你怕是会栽的很惨。

All the angst and turmoil and alienation you feel is as old as written history. You aren't the first to feel these things and you won't be the last.All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

你感受到的所有的怒气，骚动和错觉都在人类漫长的历史进程曾经肯定出现过，未来还会继续出现。

Incremental progress toward your goal is better than stomping your foot and saying “if I can't have everything I want right now, I'm going to burn it all down!” Incremental progress is progress. It is impossible for dead Utopians to build Utopia.

持续的取得进步，比你在原地跺着脚，嘴里念叨着“如果我得不到现在就想要的任何东西，我就要把它们全烧光”要好很多。灭亡的乌托邦是不可能把乌托邦重建的。

The world changes faster than you think it does. I was born into a world where everyone believed the eternal struggle between the Soviet Union and the Americans would destroy mankind. Being gay was still illegal in many states when I was born. Now gays and lesbians can marry, and there are voters who weren't alive when the USSR was a thing. See reference to “incremental progress is still progress” above.

世界变化的比你认为的要快多了。我出生在一个苏联和美国对峙可能摧毁全人类的世界。同性恋在我出生的时候在很多州都是违法的，现在同性恋们都可以结婚了，当苏维埃还在的时候，很多选民已经不在世上了。参照一下前面所说的“持续的进步依然是进步”

The things you consider life or death matters of supreme importance now, you might not even remember, much less care about, thirty years from now. Choose your battles wisely.

你现在认为的和生命或者死亡相关的很重要的事情，三十年后，你甚至都不记得了，毫不关心了。明智的选择你的奋斗的方向

It takes decades to develop a reputation for integrity and trustworthiness, and just one single decision to destroy it.

Other people are real. They matter just as much as you do.

这可能需要几十年正直和信任才能赢得一个好名誉，只有单一的决心才能完成。其他的人都是现实的，他们可以一样要紧。

Nothing is as simple as you think it is, even when you factor in nothing is as simple as you think it is.

没有什么事和你想的那样简单，即使其中的因素也和你认为的一样简单。

Small decisions have big consequences down the road. Imagine a space probe on its way to Mars. The tiniest, tiniest course correction at the beginning of the trip can mean making it there or missing by

小的决心也有很大的影响。想象一个太空探测器在通往火星的路上。在旅途开头的极小的修正航向都可能意味它能到达那或者差之千里。millions of miles. Every time you're scared to do what you want to do, but you do it anyway, in any matter however small, you're making a tiny course correction. Added up over time, they make a huge difference in your life and take you somewhere awesome.

每次当你害怕做一些你想做的事时，尽管去做，无论你做的事有多么的微乎其微，你其实是在做很小的修正航向，只要加上一定的时间，他们就会在你的生命中产生巨大的影响，带你到达成功的彼岸。

Life rewards courage.

生活会奖赏勇气。

If you're ever stuck in a position where you have to make a choice but you don't know the right thing to do, the right thing to do is usually the thing that takes the most courage

如果你卡在某个位置而有需要做出抉择，但你又不知道需要做的正确的事，这时正确的事往往是需要用最大的勇气的那件事。

原文作者及出处Franklin Veaux,Quora

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