A few things still to be grateful for
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We are geniuses at focusing on what is missing from our lives. Our dissatisfaction generally serves us well; it keeps us from complacency and boredom.我们总执着于追寻生活中缺失的部分，因此所见所感，十之八九，皆是不满，更不需谈快意和餍足了。But we are also dragged down by a pernicious inability ever reliably to stop, take stock and recognise what isn’t imperfect and appalling. In our haste to secure the future, we fail to notice what has not yet failed us, what isn’t actually out of reach: what is already very good.但对于生活中遗憾和骇人之处，我们似乎又极为敏感。生活挟裹着我们浩浩荡荡地前往远方，颠沛流离，渴望安定的我们，总是忘记了生活中那些，源源不断的，默默支撑着我们，实际上值得我们珍视的东西。We should be sure to create small occasions when we pause our striving and, for a few moments, properly take on board some of what we have be grateful for – a corrective to all the lessons in cynicism and sourness the world teaches every day.是时候停下追逐和拼搏的步伐，放下愤世嫉俗，留些时间，回头看一看那些值得我们感恩的事情。– Most of the 78 organs in our bodies have performed pretty reliably since the day we were born.自出生起，我们身体的78个器官就一直保持正常运作。– We don’t need to be afraid of starving – or even of being very cold.– Every year, if we just stay in one spot, there are at least two weeks of perfect weather.如果一直呆在一个地方，那每年至少两周能感受到舒适的天气。– We are never too far from a very hot bath.– We’ve sometimes been surprised by how things turned out.– We can with complete impunity fantasise about the people we can’t have.– We’ve come a long way since the early shyness, incompetence and fear.– Everyone messes up their life quite a bit.– Of course we couldn’t have known.– Compared with what we feared in the rockiest patches, this is almost OK.相比于死亡（地震）带来的恐惧，一切都显得不那么重要了。– There were no outright catastrophes today.– A few times, we really experienced what love felt like.– A few times, we really felt understood.– Many of the people we love are still alive.– Without asking anyone, we could go into many shops and buy a treat.我们可以走进任何一家酒店小酌一下，不需要告知任何人。– We could disappear for a bit.– We’re no longer trapped, like children are.– We still have quite a lot of time left.– Children of three or four are, intermittently, reliably sweet.– There hasn’t been a war here for a while.– You can turn on the tap and clean water comes out for almost nothing.– We can leave the places we were born and raised.– There’s always someone suffering just in the way we are.– Everyone is weird, we just don’t have access to their inner minds.每个人的内心都是扭曲的，只是我们没有办法触碰到那一面而已。– The silent majesty of a clear night sky.– We’re very normal in the number of idiocies we’ve committed.– We don’t have to take ourselves seriously.– We can feel heroic about the ordinary.– We have managed to learn a few things down the years.– There are lots of beautiful people we can take pleasure in looking at.– There are people who have loved us, even though we didn’t totallydeserve their affection or devotion.– A few bits of our body are really rather beautiful.– Our parents met and managed to make love successfully. And their parents did too. We so nearly didn’t even exist.我们的父母成功相遇并且相“爱”了。祖父祖母也是，我们差点就失去了“为患于人间”的机会。– People who didn’t absolutely have to took a serious and benign interest in our education and development.– Things really do look better when we have slept.– Many of the world’s most interesting people have written down their thoughts and ideas.我们还能够从书中认识有趣的灵魂，他们的故事和思想。– Other people are usually shyer, sweeter and kinder than we’d anticipated.– We’ve perhaps found one good friend.– We can write everything we feel down on paper.– We can, without too much effort, order a bowl of French fries.– We once really turned someone else on.– Others forget the stupid things we’ve done faster than we do.– Sincere apologies tend to be gladly accepted.– We can reinvent ourselves – a bit.– We didn’t turn 18 in 1939.– Parents keep on loving us even if we largely ignore them for a few years.– Children continue to love us even if they say they don’t; and even if we were not always perfect parents.孩子虽然嘴硬，但心里还是爱我们的，虽然我们也算不上很称职的父母。– By the time we are forty, nothing we did or thought at the age of twenty will seem very important.当我们到了四十岁，就发现二十岁时的想法是那么的幼稚。– No-one can stop us having our own thoughts.– We can get to hear the jokes and stories of the funniest people on the planet.– In the middle of the night, and in the early morning, we have the world to ourselves.夜深人静，或清晨黎明时，我们能静静的享受自己的世界。– It isn’t what happened to us that counts; but how we choose to tell the story.– We do not know what will happen in the future.本期ONE译制团：
译者：Hiallison
责任编辑：Leon Yong
source: The School of Life
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