Why do you exist

It is not death most people are afraid of. It is getting to the end of life only to realize that you never truly lived.

人们最害怕的事不是死亡，而是临死前才发现自己根本没有真正地活过。

There was a study done, a hospital study on 100 elderly people, facing death close to their last breath. They were asked to reflect about their life's biggest regret. Nearly all of them said they regreted not the things they did. But the things they didn't do. The risks they never took. The dreams they didn't pursue.

曾经有一份在医院展开的调查，采访了100位弥留之际的老人，问他们这辈子最遗憾的事情是什么，几乎所有的人都说，最后悔的事不是做过什么，而是某件没做过的事，某次没有冒的险，某个没有追随的梦想。

I ask you, will your last words be "If only I had…". Hey, you, wake up. Why do you exist? Life is not meant to simply work, wait for the weekend and pay rent. No, no, I don't know much, but I know this, every person on this earth has a gift.

我问你，你的临终遗言会是什么，是「假如当初我……」——嘿，打住。你为什么存在这个世界上？人生的目的不仅仅局限在工作，然后期盼周末以及交房租。不止这些，虽然我懂得不多，但是我知道，每个人都有一份生命所给予的礼物。

And I apologize to the Black community. But I can no longer pretend, Martin Luther King, that man never had a dream. That dream had him.

我要向黑人兄弟们道歉，无意冒犯，但我不能再假装了，马丁·路德·金，他未曾拥有一个梦想，是梦想拥有了他。

See people don't choose dreams, dreams choose them. So the question I'm getting to is do you have the courage to grab the dream that picks you, that befits you and grips you. Or will you let it get away and slip through?

人们从未选择梦想，是梦想选择了他们，所以我想要问的问题是：你是否有勇气去抓住那个找到你的梦想，为你量身打造的梦想，紧紧抓住你不放的梦想？或者，你放任梦想从指尖溜走？

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