经典英语美文:如何成为梦想中的自己
发布时间:2016-08-05 编辑:查字典英语网小编
When I was a kid, I thought I would grow up to be an actress. I thought I
would live in New York City, in a high-rise apartment building, with my husband
and family of, oh, five or six kids. I thought I'd live an urban, impossibly
sophisticated1 life. Money would be no object. Perhaps there would be a private
plane. (I should mention here that these fantasies were firmly rooted in the
1980's.) Well, I grew up and left the city for the country. I married and had
one child -- an only child, just like I had been. My husband and I work hard to
make ends meet. But my life - my rich, imperfect, complicated, contented2 life
-- is the one I've built for myself. It's an honest life. It's a life of
integrity3. It's a life I love. But to have it, I had to lose my fantasy
straight out of the pages of a magazine of what it was that I thought I wanted -
of who I thought I was. I was underselling myself, it turned out.
To love, to really live is to become willing to lose people, places, things,
dreams, even to lose versions of ourselves that no longer serve us. And in place
of what is lost, something newemerges4. It may not be what we imagined. But it
is beautiful and it is ours.
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