英语美文朗读 第350期 Failure Is What Makes You Stronger

The thing about life is it's not always easy, and you can't always win. Some point of your life, it hits you. It hits you really really hard. The person you love doesn't love you back, you get fired, you lose a family member. At some point of your life, you're gonna hit rock bottom. You're paralyzed, you're like, "Why?" And that why can really really destroy you. Once you start asking yourself, "Why me? Why not the others, why me? I'm actually a good person, I never did something significantly bad, why the hell did it hit me?" Because that's life. Life is unfair.

 

生活的真相就是，生活很难，你不可能一直是赢家。有时候，生活给你打击，非常，非常沉重的打击。你爱的人不爱你，你被辞退了，你失去了至亲。有时候，你会跌入谷底。你已经麻木了，你会想问为什么。这“为什么”会摧毁你。一旦你开始问你自己，“为什么是我？为什么不是别人？为什么是我？我真的是个好人，我从来没有做过严重的坏事，但为什么偏偏是我遇到这么多坎坷？”因为，这就是生活，生活就是不公平的。

 

Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days. And if you can't absorb failure, you're never gonna meet success.

成功不是用阳光灿烂的日子来衡量的，成功是由那些黑暗的、狂风暴雨的、阴云蔽日的日子来衡量的。如果你无法接受失败，你就永远不会成功。

 

Sometimes it takes things falling apart, for better things to fall into place. Sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable path, to lead your life to the most beautiful place.

有的时候，很多东西会崩溃瓦解，这样，更好的东西才会有容身之地。有时候，你要走那条最艰苦的道路，才能将你的人生引到最美丽的地方。

 

There's gonna be bad days, there's gonna be dark days, but you've gotta embrace it. Because that pain is what makes you stronger. Failure is what makes you stronger.

生命中会有糟糕的日子，会有黑暗的日子，但你终将能够面对它们。因为这些痛苦会使你更加强大。失败会使你更加强大。

 

You have to accept those down times, because once you realize those down times, are just as much part of life as anything else, you're able to strive again.

你必须接受这些命途多舛的日子，因为，一旦你意识到，它们和生命中的其它时候并没有什么不同，你就能够奋勇拼搏了。

 

You'll never see the purpose of the storm, until you see the growth it produced. You'll never understand why you went through what you went through, until you see the strength, the power, the resilience that it built inside of you.

只到历经风暴后获得了成长，你才会看清风暴的意义。在你经历了一些事情，获得了成长，获得了力量，获得了坚韧的毅力之后，你才会发现你的经历有何意义。

 

Ask yourself why. But this why is a better why, "Why am I doing this? Why am I failing? Why am I even getting myself in a situation where I could fail? Because I have a dream. Because I have goals." And the more you're thinking back to those original goals, the easier it is for you to get back up and say, "Alright, it might be difficult, it might be painful, it might be stressful, there might be no people that believe in me, but I believe in myself." You know it might have been the case that you should have gone through that harsh break up, that you should have gone through that heavy loss, just in order to find something even better. But the only way to get to that even better, is to get back up and work. To get back up and put yourself out there again. And arise from that again, stronger, better, smarter, ready to grasp that new opportunity.

问问你自己，为什么？这个“为什么”是更加有意义的“为什么”。“为什么我要这样做？为什么我失败了？为什么我让自己处于随时可能失败的境地？因为我有梦想，因为我有追求。”你越是反思你最初的目标，你就越能够轻松地爬起来，说，“好吧，或许我会遇到困难，或许我会遭受痛苦，或许我会面临压力，或许压根没人相信我，但我相信我自己。”你要知道，也许事实就是，你必须经历分手的煎熬、失去的痛苦，这样你才能找到更好的。但，要想找到更好的，唯一的出路就是，爬起来，努力奋斗。爬起来，让你自己去面对世界。你要爬起来，你变得更坚强，更优秀，更睿智，你做好了准备，去把握新的机遇。

 

You have belief the tables in your life will turn. That pain will become power, that weakness will become strength, and that confusion will become peace. Better things are coming for your life. Everyday is a new beginning. It's time for you to start treating it that way.

你要知道，你会遇到柳暗花明又一村的时候。昔日的痛苦，会变成巨大的力量；曾经的弱点，会变成你的优势；以往的迷茫，会变成内心的平静。更好的东西正在向你走来。每日都是新的起点。现在，是时候开始以这种心态面对你的每一天了！