英語短文：人生不是一次彩排(Life isn't a Dress Rehearsal)

要過有意義的生活，真正的生活，并不是狂熱地追求晉升、加薪和更大的房子。 
　　
不要孤立的活著，找到你愛的人和愛你的人。并要記?。簮鄄皇切蓍e，而是工作。打個電話，發(fā)個郵件，寫封信，要活得慷慨、活得大度。 
　　
生活是最美好的，我們要加倍珍惜。 
　　
虛度生命很容易，一天、一小時、一分鐘很快樂就會過去。 
　　
我們易于忽視別人的想法，不注意交響樂旋律的升降變化。 
　　
我們可以會為了活著而活著，而非真正的生活。 
　　
多年以前，我就知道了生命的意義。那時，不幸降臨到了我身上，改變了我的生活。要是當時我做出明智的選擇，完全可以避免這種不幸的發(fā)生?，F(xiàn)在看來，那是我此生中一個最大的教訓。我從中學會了好多。 
　　
我學會了享受過程，而非結果。 
　　
我懂得了生活沒有彩排，我們能把握的只有現(xiàn)在。 
　　
我學會了發(fā)現(xiàn)世界上所有事物的真善美，然后奉獻出一部分。因為我對真善美深信不疑，并且也在努力去踐行，其中一種方式便是告訴他人我所學到的。 
　　 
我告訴他們：想想田野里的百合花；看看嬰兒耳朵上的絨毛；在后院的陽光下讀書；開心地活著。 
　　
把生命當成某種不治之癥的晚期，這樣，你就會活得快樂且富有激情，而人就應該這樣生活。

Life isn't a Dress Rehearsal

Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are generous.



And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kid's eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls an disappears and rises again...



It is so easy to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something what changed my life in ways that, if I had my option, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned, by telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy.

And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.