美文赏析:努力，是一种生活态度

Trying is an attitude. It has nothing to do with your age.

努力是一种生活态度，与年龄无关。

Someone kept pushing his horizon when he was already 45, and he found his dream job the next year.

有的人在45岁的时候，依旧在挑战极限，最后在第二年找到了自己梦寐以求的工作。

This man's name is Barack Obama.

这个人，叫贝拉克·奥巴马。

And his new job was the President of the United States.

而他的新工作，是美国总统。

Another man thought his golden age had already ended when he was 35. So he gave up and accepted the status quo.

有的人在35岁时就觉得自己的黄金岁月已经过去，于是放弃了努力、接受了现状。

And no one knows his name.

而他的名字，没有人知道。

No one cares.

也没有人在乎。

No, trying does not only belong to the young or children.

不，努力不是专属于年轻人和孩子的东西。

And it has nothing to do with time.

它与时间无关。

It's not an obligation put on your shoulder by others. It is the desire for a better self that takes root deeply in your heart. It is a positive life-attitude.

它不是外界对你的逼迫，而是你自己内心对更进一步的渴望，是一种积极向上的生活态度。

The most horrible thing that can happen in your life is not being unseccessful even though you tried, but that you give up and tell yourself it is precious to be just ordinary.

人生中最可怕的不是碌碌无为，而是你不努力还安慰自己平凡可贵。