When asked"what's the biggest mistake we make in life?"The buddha replied."this biggest mistake is you think you have time."當被問及"人生最大的錯誤是什么？"佛祖會這樣回答"最大的錯誤就是你認為你有時間。"
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it.but you can use it.You can't keep it, but you can spend it. And once its lost, you can never get it back.時間是免費的，但也是無價的。你不能擁有它，但你能夠使用它。你不能儲存它，但你能花費它。一旦它消失了，你就再也拿不回來。
? The average person lives 78 years. We spend 28.3 years of our life sleeping. That's almost a third of our life but 30% of us struggle to sleep well. We spend 10.5 years of our life working, but over 50% of us want to live our current jobs.人的一生平均有78年，我們花費28.3年在睡覺上，差不多花費了我們1/3的時間，但同時也有30%的我們在為睡個好覺而斗爭。我們花10.5年去工作，但超過50%的人想離開現在的崗位。
? Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can never get more time. 時間比金錢更有價值。你會賺更多的錢，卻不能賺到更多的時間。
? We spend 9 years on T.V. and social media. We spend 6 years doing chores. We spend 4 years eating and drinking. We spend 3.5 years in education. We spend 2.5 years grooming. We spend 2.5 years shopping. We spend 1.5 years in child care. And we spend 1.3 years commuting.我們在電視和社交媒體上花費9年的時間，花6年的時間在家務上，4年的時間在吃吃喝喝上，累計消費3.5年在教育上，2.5年在打扮上，2.5年在購物上，1.5年在照顧兒童上，1.3年花費在通勤上。
That leaves us with 9 years. How will we spend that time. Steve jobs said"your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life." So there's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.剩下留給我們的時間只有9年，我們將會怎樣消費這些時間呢？喬布斯說“生命有限，別將它浪費在重復他人的生活上。”所以這里有好消息，也有壞消息；壞消息是時光飛逝，好消息是你是領航者。
? Imagine you wake up everyday with $86400 in your bank account. And at the end of the night is all gone. Whether you spend it or not. And then the next day you get another $86400. What would we do with it? Every day 86400 seconds are? deposited into your life account. And the end of the day once they are all used up. You get new 86400 seconds. 想象一下，每天你醒來，銀行賬戶中都有86400美元。到一天結束時，它們就都消失了，不管你是否消費它們。第二天，你的賬戶又會擁有86400美元。我們將會用它做什么呢？每天86400秒都會存入你的生命賬戶，一天結束后第二天，你將擁有新的86400秒。
? We would never waste it if it was money. So why do we waste it when it comes to time? Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars, because you can always make more dollars. You can't always make more time.如果是錢，我們不會浪費。那為什么我們要浪費時間呢？時間比金錢的力量更大，因為你能賺錢，卻不能賺取時間。
? To realize the value of one year, ask students who failed a grade. To realize the value of one month. Ask the mother who lost her child in the final month. To realize the value of one week asks editor of an online magazine. To realize the value of one hour, ask the couple whose in a long distance relationship. To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train or plane. To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just missed an accident. To realize the value of a millisecond, ask the person who just came second at the Olympics.想知道一年的價值，去問考試失利的學生；想知道一個月的價值，去問分娩前一個月失去孩子的母親；想知道一周的價值，去問在線雜志的編輯們；想知道一個小時的價值，去問異地戀的情侶們；想知道一分鐘的價值，去問剛剛錯過公交和飛機的人；想知道一秒的價值，去問剛剛幸免于難的人；想知道一毫秒的價值，去問與奧運冠軍失之交臂的運動員。
? We think it's person wasting our time. But it's really us giving them the permission to do that. And in reality, these two people live inside us. Don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.別人總是浪費我們的時間，其實是我們允許他們這樣。現實是，我們體內有兩個人。當你對于別人只是選項時，別將他們排在前面。
? Some of us know the people most important to us because we don't value their time. Some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone. 我們失去很多重要的人，因為我們沒有珍惜他們；有時直到失去，才知道他們有多重要。
? Inside all of us are 2 voices-1 voice that wants to uplift. 1 voice that wants us to expand. 1 voice that wants us to grow. And then there's the other voice- The voice that holds us back. The voice that makes us lazy. The voice that makes us complacent. The voice that restricts us from our potential. 我們的內心有兩種聲音：一種聲音鼓勵我們上進，鼓勵我們豐富自己，鼓勵我們不斷成長；同時還存在另一種聲音，這種聲音使我們懶惰，使我們退步，讓我們驕傲自滿。
? Every day from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep, inside of us there's this battle between the 2 voices. And guess which one wins? The one that we listen to the most. The one that we feed. The one that we amplify. It is our choice of how we use our time. Life and time are the best two teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of time,and time teaches us the value of life. 每天從醒來到入睡，這兩種聲音都在斗爭。猜猜誰贏了？我們聽得最多的那個聲音贏了，我們更喜歡的那個聲音，那個讓我們更強的聲音——這就是我們對于時間的選擇。生活和時間是兩位最好的老師，生活教會我們更好的使用時間，時間教會我們生活的價值。
? And as William Shakespeare said," Time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who scared, very long for those who are sad, and very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, Time is eternal."就像莎士比亞所說過的那樣“對想要它的人來說，時間很慢；對害怕它的人來說，時間很快；對悲觀的人來說，時間很長；對充滿歡愉的人來說，它又很短暫；而對于愛他的人來說，時間既是永恒。”
? ? ? 以上文字，來自一段五分鐘的英文短視頻。我很喜歡，所以我把每一個英文及其對應的意思都逐個敲打出來。這不是我的創造，卻值得我銘記！具體帶有這視頻的網文，我會分享在我的朋友圈里。當然，您也可以關注微信‘我是講書人’中一周前一篇《一生可支配的時間只有九年》的網文。文中提到的《奇特的一生》一書，我也決定找機會看看。
? ? ? 此刻，這段文字我與正在閱讀的你分享。請記住：人生最值得抓住的時刻有兩個“一個是十年前，另一個就是現在。”
? ? ? ? 如果正在閱讀的你也喜歡以上文字，歡迎點贊或轉發，祝安！
