A Full-time School Called Life
佚名 / Anonymous
You are enrolled in a full-time school called “life”. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.
Why are you here? What is your purpose? Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time. What we and our ancestors have overlooked, however, is that there is no one answer. The meaning of life is different for every individual.
Each person has his or her own purpose and distinct path, unique and separate from anyone else’s. As you travel your life path, you will be presented with numerous lessons that you will need to learn in order to fulfill that purpose. The lessons you are presented with are specific to you; learning these lessons is the key to discovering and fulfilling the meaning and relevance of your own life.
As you travel through your lifetime, you may encounter challenging lessons that others don’t have to face, while others spend years struggling with challenges that you don’t need to deal with. You may never know why you are blessed with a wonderful marriage, while your friends suffer through bitter arguments and painful divorces, just as you cannot be sure why you struggle financially while your peers enjoy abundance. The only thing you can count on for certain is that you will be presented with all the lessons that you are capable of you specifically need to learn; whether you choose to learn them or not is entirely up to you.
The challenge here, therefore, is to align yourself with your own unique path by learning individual lessons. This is one of the most difficult challenges you will be faced with in your lifetime, as sometimes your path will be radically different from others. But, remember, don’t compare your path to the people around you and focus on the disparity between their lessons and yours. You need to remember that you will only be faced with lessons learning and are specific to your own growth.
Our sense of fairness is the expectation of equity—the assumption that all things are equal and that justice will always prevail. Life is not, in fact, fair, and you may indeed have a more difficult life path than others around you, deserved or not. Everyone’s circumstances are unique, and everyone needs to handle his or her own circumstances differently. If you want to move toward serenity, you will be required to move out of the complaining phase of “it’s not fair”. Focusing on the unfairness of circumstances keeps you comparing yourself with others rather than appreciating your own special uniqueness. You miss out on learning your individual lessons by distracting yourself with feelings of bitterness and resentment.
你是“生活”这所全日制学校的学生，每天都有机会学习各门课程。无论你喜欢与否，这些都是你的必修课。
为什么你会生活在这里？你生活的目的何在？长久以来，人们都在探寻人生的意义。然而，每一代人都忽略了一个事实——人生的意义并不是一个答案，生活的意义是因人而异的。
人各有志，每个人的人生目的和道路都不尽相同。在人生的旅途上，你需要不断地学习，只有这样，才有望实现人生目标。你所学的知识是特意为你而设的，而探寻人生意义、实现人生目标的关键则在于认真学习这些经验并汲取教训。
在生命旅程中，别人不必面对的挑战和教训，你或许要面对；当然，别人为之奋斗多年的诸多挑战，你也许不必应对。你拥有幸福的婚姻，而你的朋友却要饱尝婚姻之苦，承受离婚之痛，正如这些你大概永远都没法弄明白。同样，对于你疲于奔命，却过着拮据的生活，而你的朋友却过着安逸优越的生活，你也可能无法理解。但有一点是肯定的，就是那些注定要学的知识与经验你定会有缘相识。至于是否愿意学，则完全取决于你自己。
因此，这里的挑战在于你要汲取各种不同的经验和教训，以使你的生活符合自己独特的人生道路。这是你一生都要面对的最严峻的挑战。之所以这样说，是因为人生道路各有差别。但是，谨记——不要与周围的人相比，计较不同的经验和教训；你要学的东西是你力所能及的，并且是特意为你的成长量身定制的。
事事公正、人人平等是我们的愿望，这即是所谓的公平感。然而，事实上，生活并非总是公平的，或许命运不应该这样安排，但你的人生就是有可能比别人艰辛、坎坷。每个人的情况不同，所以，也该用不同的方法对待自己的境遇。若想拥有平和的心境，就不可存有悲观厌世的心态。过于计较世事的不公，容易自轻自贱，从而发现不了自己的独特之处。因受愤世嫉俗、懊恼烦闷的情绪干扰，你也许会错过许多自己该学的课程。
记忆填空
1. are you here? What is your purpose? Humans have sought to discover the meaning of for a very long time. What we and our ancestors have overlooked, , is that there is no one answer. The meaning of life is different every individual.
2. The you are presented with are specific to you; these lessons is the key to discovering and fulfilling the meaning and relevance of your life.
3. You miss out on learning individual lessons distracting yourself with of bitterness and resentment.
佳句翻译
1. 无论你喜欢与否，这些都是你的必修课。
2. 因此，这里的挑战在于你要汲取各种不同的经验和教训，以使你的生活符合自己独特的人生道路。
3. 每个人的情况不同，所以，也该用不同的方法对待自己的境遇。
短语应用
1. you will be presented with numerous lessons that you will need to learn in order to fulfill that purpose.
be presented with：
2. The only thing you can count on for certain is that .
count on：指望；依靠