中英双语美文26：在25岁写给50岁的我

Don't try so hard to be respectable. Speak from your heart about what you truly believe, even if it makes you look naive or sentimental.

不要太用力去得到社会的认可。倾听你内心真正相信的东西，即使这会让你看起来天真或伤感。

You can radically change your life when/if you need to. You don't need to keep doing what you have been doing, just because you are in the habit of doing it.

你可以彻底改变你的生活，只要你想去改变。你不需要因为习惯了做一件事，就继续做下去。

Being friendly and open to meeting new people in random places can lead to cool adventures and friendships. Don't get too comfortable in your present circles of acquaintances.

对在任何地方遇到的陌生人都抱着开放和友好的态度，可能会给你带来炫酷的经历和友情。别太陷在你现在的熟人圈子里。

You need way less money than you think to survive, stop obsessing about it, and just spend less.

生活必需的钱比你想象得要少得多，不要迷恋钱，少花就是。

It's OK not to know what you want to do for the rest of your life. Leave space for the completely unexpected to happen.

你不知道自己余生想做什么也OK，刚好为完全未知的事情留出空间。

God loves you even more because you are a bit of a freak. Don't hide your light under a button-down bushel.

如果你有一点疯狂，上帝会更爱你的。千万不要掩藏你的才华。

Leave your door without any purpose once in a while and see where the city takes you. Don't just stay on the path between your apartment, work and the gym.

偶尔毫无目的地出去走走，看看你生活的城市能带你去哪儿。不要固定在家、公司、健身房三点之间。

Hang out with your long-time friends more and contact those with whom you have lost touch. You don't seem to have as many friends as you used to.

多多与多年老友碰面，重新找到失去联系的朋友。因为你会发现自己没原来那么多朋友了。

Ambition is overrated. Stop trying so hard to be "successful."

抱负被抬得过高。不要费劲全力只为了所谓的“成功”。

It's a good thing to believe that a Utopian society where everyone is treated with dignity and equality is possible and worth working for. Cynicism doesn't make you intelligent -- it just makes you cynical.

相信人人平等、有尊严的乌托邦社会可以实现，并愿为实现这一目标而努力是好事。但愤世嫉俗不会让你变聪明，只会让你变得愤世嫉俗。

Create art every once in a while. Even though you aren't particularly talented and nobody really loved your 'nude portrait under autumn leaves' the creative process is good for your soul.

偶尔搞搞艺术。就算你没有特别的才华，就算没有人欣赏你的“秋天落叶下的裸体自画像”，创造的过程也能美化你的灵魂。

The next time you hear yourself reminiscing about how you "used to do something," make a plan to do it. Studying dance, carving pumpkins for Halloween, and doing improve shouldn't all be thought of in the past tense.

下一次你再回忆起当年“做什么事”的时候，制定一个重新开始的计划吧。学跳舞、刻万圣节南瓜、即兴表演都不应该存在于过去式中。