In Life We Are Happiest When...　最幸福的时刻

In Life We Are Happiest When...　最幸福的时刻

◎ Stuart

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.

一个男人和他的女朋友结婚了，举行了一场盛大的婚礼。

All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time.

所有的亲朋好友都出席了这场隆重的结婚典礼，前来参加婚宴和欢庆活动。每个人都度过了一段愉快的时光。

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown, and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

身着白色婚纱的新娘漂亮迷人，一身黑色礼服的新郎英俊潇洒。每个人都能看出他们彼此是真心相爱的。

A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage.” she offered. “Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”

几个月后，妻子对丈夫提议说：“刚才我在杂志上看到一篇文章，讲的是如何巩固婚姻。”她接着说道，“我们两个人分别把对方的小毛病列在一张纸上，然后我们讨论一下如何解决，让我们的生活更幸福美满。”

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

丈夫同意了。于是他们各自走进不同的房间开始思考对方的缺点。那一天余下的时间里，他们都在想这个问题，并且把他们所想到的都写了下来。

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

第二天早上，吃早餐的时候，他们决定开始谈论这个问题。

“I’ll start.” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes.

“我先开始吧。”妻子说。她拿出她的单子，上面列举了很多条，实际上整整写满了三页。而当她开始念的时候，她注意到丈夫的眼里闪烁着泪花。

“What’s wrong?” she asked. “Nothing,” the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

“怎么啦？”她问。“没什么，”丈夫回答道，“继续念吧。”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

妻子开始接着念，直到把整整三页都念完了。她将单子平整地放在桌上，双手交叉着放在上面。

“Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists.” she said happily.

“现在轮到你念了，然后我们谈谈各自列举出的缺点吧。”她高兴地说。

Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.”

丈夫平静地回答道：“我什么也没写。我觉得你现在这样就已经很完美了，我不想让你为我改变什么。你既可爱又迷人，我不想让你做出任何改变。”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

妻子被丈夫的诚实以及对她深深的爱和接纳感动了，她转过头开始啜泣起来。

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

我们的生活中有许多的失望、沮丧和烦恼，我们根本不用刻意去寻找它们。我们拥有一个充满美丽、光明和希望的美好世界。所以，当我们环顾四周时，为什么要浪费时间去寻找不快、失望和烦恼，反而看不到摆在眼前的美好呢？

Annoying is made from yourself, so abandon it.

烦恼是自己制造出来的，抛弃它吧。

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