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Another Way of Growing Up

If, years from now, you still haven’t becomewho you imagined you would be when young,don’t rush to blame anyone.

若多年后,你仍没有活成
年少时想象的样子,
别急着责怪谁。

Look at the tree before the house:the wind has changed its posture,the eaves have changed its direction,even the stones, out of sight,have changed the path of its roots.

你看庭前那棵树:
风改过它的姿势,
屋檐改过它的方向,
甚至石头也在暗处,
改过它根底的路。

And yet what it offers todayis still deep shade, birdsong,and branches full of fruit.

可它今天交出来的,
依然是浓荫、鸟鸣,
和满枝果实。

“Fate may have changed your answer, but that doesn’t mean it changed you for the worse.”

“命运改过你的答案,未必改错了你。”

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