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热情成就未来
荷叶/译 多年前，当我开始第一份工作时，一位明智的顾问劝道：“芭芭拉，要热情！热情比任何经验使你走得都远。”
说得太对了！热情的人可以把枯燥的驾驶变成奇遇，把加班变成机遇，把陌生人变成朋友。
“没有热情成就不了大事。”爱默森写道。热情是进展困难时帮你坚持的黏合剂。热情是当周围的人大喊：“你不能”时，发自内心的呢喃：“我能行！”
荣获1983年诺贝尔医学奖的遗传学家芭芭拉·麦克林托克的早期工作，直到很多年后才被广泛接受。然而她没有松劲，继续实验。她对于工作有着如此浓厚的乐趣以至于她从没想过要停下来。
我们每个人生来都眼睛睁得大大的，充满热情，充满好奇。正如一个婴儿听到硬币撞击的丁当声，看到甲虫奔跑时所表现出的惊喜一样。
正是这种孩子般的好奇给了热情的人一种青春气息，不论他的年龄有多大。
大提琴演奏家帕布罗·卡萨尔斯在九十岁时开始演奏巴赫的作品。当音乐在他指间流淌时，他弓着的背挺直了，欢乐在他眼中重现。对于卡萨尔斯，音乐就像把他生活变成永无尽头的奇遇的灵丹妙药。正如诗人作家塞缪尔· 厄尔曼曾经写过的，“岁月皱的是皮肤，放弃热情皱得是灵魂。”
怎样才能重拾儿时的热情？我认为答案在于热情这个词本身。热情一词来自希腊语，意为“上帝在心中”。上帝在心中是一种持久的爱，适度地爱自己（自我接受），从而推及爱别人。
热情的人爱自己所做的事，不顾及金钱，名誉和权力。如果不能把自己喜欢做的事当做终身职业的话，我们可以把它当成一个兼职，一种生活方式，正如国家首脑去画画，修女去跑马拉松，执行官去手工制作家俱一样。
坎萨斯· 威尔斯维尔的伊丽莎白· 林顿六十八岁才开始画画。画画终止了困扰她至少三十年的抑郁症发作，她画作的质量令一位评论家赞道：“我想称林顿为天才。” 伊丽莎白重拾了她的热情。
我们负经不起把泪水浪费在“过去可能做到” 的事情上，我们需要把泪水融于追求“将来能做到什么”的汗水中。
我们需要全心全意地度过每一时刻，调动全部感官，去寻找后花园里的芳香，六岁孩子的画笔涂鸦，彩虹充满魔力的美。这种对生活的热情使我们的眼里出现了光芒，脚步变得轻快起来，灵魂的皱纹被抚平。
附：原文
Years ago, when Istarted looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, beenthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount ofexperience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It isthe paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is theinner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout,"No, you can't." It took yearsand years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let upon her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she neverthought of stopping. We are all bornwith wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen aninfant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle. It is thischildlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatevertheir age. At 90, cellistPablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed throughhis fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear inhis eyes. Music, for Casals, was anelixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author andpoet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give upenthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do yourediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in theword itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "Godwithin." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- properlove of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others. Enthusiastic peoplealso love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot dowhat we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time a vocation, like thehead of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive whohandcrafts furniture. Elizabeth Layton ofWellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. Thisactivity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years,and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to callLayton a genius." Elizabethhas rediscovered her enthusiasm. We can't afford towaste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears intosweat as we go after "what-can-be." We need to liveeach moment whole heartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in thefragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, theenchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that putsa sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from oursouls. | 
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