🔥标题：12个最宝贵的人生经验
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人生是充满期待与恐惧的交织，还是藏着可遵循的底层逻辑？61 岁的演讲者结合半生阅历，总结出 12 条确信无疑的人生经验 —— 从 “所有真相都是悖论” 到 “写作要先接受糟糕的初稿”，从家庭的艰难与温暖到死亡的神圣与释然。这些不鸡汤、不说教的感悟，既有对生活的清醒认知，也有对自我的温柔接纳，为每个在迷茫中前行的人提供温暖指引！
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My seven-year-old grandson sleeps just down the hall from me, and he wakes up a lot of mornings and he says, "You know, this could be the best day ever." And other times, in the middle of the night, he calls out in a tremulous voice, "Nana, will you ever get sick and die?"
我七岁大的孙子就睡在我隔壁的房间，他常常在清晨醒来，然后说：“你知道，今天也许会是最棒的一天。” 也有的时候，在午夜时分，他会怯生生地问我：“奶奶，你也会生病和死亡吗？”
I think this pretty much says it for me and most of the people I know, that we're a mixed grill of happy anticipation and dread. So I sat down a few days before my 61st birthday, and I decided to compile a list of everything I know for sure. There's so little truth in the popular culture, and it's good to be sure of a few things.
我想，我和大多数我认识的人可能都是这样，我们同时交织着满心期待与深深恐惧。所以在我 61 岁生日的前几天，我坐下来，决定把我确信无疑的一切都列出来。流行文化中的真理太少了，能明确一些事实总归是好的。
For instance, I am no longer 47, although this is the age I feel, and the age I like to think of myself as being. My friend Paul used to say in his late 70s that he felt like a young man with something really wrong with him.
比方说，我已经不再是 47 岁了，虽然我依然觉得自己才 47 岁，也宁愿认为自己是 47 岁。我的朋友保罗在快 80 岁时曾说，他觉得自己就是个身体出了点毛病的年轻人。
Our true person is outside of time and space, but looking at the paperwork, I can, in fact, see that I was born in 1954. My inside self is outside of time and space. It doesn't have an age. I'm every age I've ever been, and so are you, although I can't help mentioning as an aside that it might have been helpful if I hadn't followed the skin care rules of the '60s, which involved getting as much sun as possible while slathered in baby oil and basking in the glow of a tinfoil reflector shield.
真正的自我是超越时空的，但看着那些身份证明，我确实能看清自己生于 1954 年。我的内在自我不受时空限制，它没有年龄。我同时拥有我曾经历过的每一个年龄，你也一样 —— 不过我忍不住插一句，如果当年没遵循 60 年代的护肤法则就好了：那时流行涂满婴儿油，对着锡箔反光板拼命晒太阳。
It was so liberating, though, to face the truth that I was no longer in the last throes of middle age, that I decided to write down every single true thing I know. People feel really doomed and overwhelmed these days, and they keep asking me what's true. So I hope that my list of things I'm almost positive about might offer some basic operating instructions to anyone who is feeling really overwhelmed or beleaguered.
不过，坦然接受自己已过中年末期这个事实，其实是种解脱。于是我决定写下所有我知道的真相。如今人们常常感到绝望又迷茫，不停问我 “什么才是真的”。所以我希望这份 “我几乎能确定的事” 清单，能给那些不知所措、陷入困境的人提供一些基本的 “生活指南”。
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