英语美文：What is a successful life？

What is a successful life? 
什么是成功的人生？ 

To answer this question, we must observe the paradox of our priorities. How we pursue lifestyles built on our resumes. Yet as we knowingly approach death, we yearn to be remembered by every quality, except that resume. 
要回答这个问题，我们必须研究一下我们做事的优先次序。我们在简历的基础上，追求自己的生活方式。 但是当我们生命垂危之际，我们却渴望被人们铭记自己简历之外的所有品质。 

You see, during the course of our lives, we seek success of every tangible sort. But when it comes to looking back on a life once lived, those tangible things, the measuring cups of our entire existence seem emptier than ever. 
你看，我们活着的时候，追求的是各种有形的成功，但是当回首往事时，那些有形的东西，以及证明我们生活过的事物，此刻却像量杯一样空空如也，比以往任何时候都更空虚。

I have never read nor have I written a eulogy that expressed how accomplished a person was or how brilliant of a worker they were. Even the most celebrated innovators are not eulogized by the impact of their inventions, but by their motives, the bonds they formed, acts of kindness, and what they meant to the people around them. 

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