精美散文：爱你所做 做你所爱
Life is short. Are you doing what you love? Are you living your passion?
生活短暂。你所从事的是你热爱的工作吗？你生活在激情中吗？
If not, why? I am guessing most people will answer that question with I have a mortgage, a spouse and three kids to support. In the real world people have responsibilities. They have to make sacrifices. You aren‘t supposed to be happy with your job but you do it because you have to.
假如不是，为何？我猜想大多数都会以我要付房屋的按揭贷款，还有爱人和三个孩子要养之类的回答来搪塞这个问题。的确，在现实日常，大家有我们的家庭责任，大家不能不做些牺牲，大家做着一些自己并不热爱的工作只因大家必需如此去做。
With all due respect, they are wrong. You can take care of your responsibilities and be happy with your job. We spend over 1/3 of our day, at least five days a week performing our jobs. This is a lot of time to be wasting on something we don‘t enjoy, is it not? Why not spend that time doing something you truly are passionate about for 50 hours a week instead of something that lacks meaning?
恕我直言，这所有并不是正确。你可以兼顾你的责任，同时热爱你的工作。大家一天中要花去1/3的时间，至少一个星期5天去工作。假如不热爱这份工作，这确实是一笔非常大的时间浪费，不是吗？为何不可以用这宝贵的时间，一星期50个小时去从做你真的激情洋溢的事情呢，而不是对你来讲缺少意义的工作。
I think there is one main reason people don‘t follow their passion: fear. Fear of how others will react, fear of failure, and fear that they can‘t do it themselves. I think the first part is for people to realize that they can conquer their fear. You will fail at times and others will think you are crazy at times, but if you believe that you will succeed than you ultimately will.
我觉得有的人之所以不去追求他们的梦想是有一个主要是什么原因：恐惧。惧怕别人的指指点点，惧怕失败，惧怕没能力完成他们的梦想。我觉得第一步大家应该去战胜恐惧。有时大家会失败，有时其他人也会感觉你有的疯狂，但只须你坚信你可以成功，那样你最后势必成功。
I understand that it is not easy. I am in the middle of going through it right now. But understand that there are other people out there who have been through what you are going through and can help you immensely. They have failed, been ridiculed, and come out on the other end extremely successful. They are living proof that you can do what you love.
我理解这做起来并困难。其实，我也正在克服追求我的梦想过程中的恐惧。但大家相信有的人已经从这个恐惧中坚强地走了出来，并想帮助大家。他们过去失败过，被嘲笑过，但他们走向了胜利的彼岸。这类人的故事正是你能做你所爱的真实而有力的证据。
（编辑：英语之家）
