【赫临译笔】一个人何时变老 - 心云驛站

“我害怕过年，过年使我意识到自己在变老。”一个朋友最近这样说。

伟大的心理学家威廉•詹姆斯说，多数人二十五岁就已落伍。他说得对。多数人二十五就满足于自己的工作，他们积累了一点被称之为“原则”的偏见，开始固步自封，不接受新观念。他们已经停止成长。

一个人的变老无关岁月，他停止成长的那一分钟，就是他变老的开始。反之，一个真正的伟人永远也不会老去。

歌德享年八十三岁，临终前几年才完成了《浮士德》。格莱斯顿七十岁时，开始学习一门新外语。

天文学家拉普拉斯在七十八岁去世时，还在工作。他临终时，大哭：“我们知道的太少了，不知道的太多了。”

这样你就找到了“一个人何时变老”这个问题的真正答案。

拉普拉斯七十八岁去世，属于英年早逝。因为他仍然不满足，仍然确信自己还有许多东西要学。

只要一个人能保持这样一种心态，只要当他回顾每一年时，可以对自己说“我成长了”，他就依然年轻。

当一个人停止成长，他对自己说“我懂得了我需要掌握的一切”，在这一天年轻开始终结。无论是二十五，还是七十五，这无关紧要。在这一天，他开始变老。

"I dread to come to the end of the year, said a friend to me recently," it makes me realize I am growing old."

William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five", He was right. Most men at twenty-five aresatisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their "Principles," and closed their minds to all new ideas. They have ceased to grow.

The minute a man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.

Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstonetook up a new language when he was seventy.

Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense."

And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?"

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, "I grew," he is still young.

The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know," --that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five orseventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

ヮ成熟、羙° 发表于 2014-5-16 21:52
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