你是獨(dú)一無二的

You’re Unique

Consider... YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You’re better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion....

You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!

You’re amazing! You’re awesome! Yes, you’re it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. But you don’t become “beautiful” just by virtue of the aging process.

Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the art of life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today.

Paint a Masterpiece. 　

God gives every bird its food, but he doesn’t throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it’s truly up to you.

【助讀詞匯】

◇unique  adj. 獨(dú)一無二的，唯一的

◇awesome adj. 使人敬畏的

◇infinity n. 無限，無窮大

◇whimsey n. 怪念頭，奇想

◇by virtue of 依靠，由于

◇devour vt. (尤指動(dòng)物)吞吃，狼吞虎咽

【參考譯文】

你是獨(dú)一無二的

試想一下…….你！不論是以往還是將來都不會(huì)有一個(gè)跟你一模一樣的人。在歷史上和宇宙中你都是獨(dú)一無二的。哇！停下來想想吧，你是萬里挑一、億里挑一、兆里挑一的。

在無窮無盡的宇宙中，你是舉世無雙的！

你是讓人驚嘆的！你是卓越的！沒錯(cuò)，就是你。你已經(jīng)是了不起的，是卓越的，你還可以更卓越、更了不起。美麗的年輕人是大自然的奇想，而美麗的老人卻是藝術(shù)真實(shí)的杰作。但你不會(huì)因?yàn)槟挲g的增長就自然而然地變得“美麗”。

真正的美麗源于生命里的學(xué)習(xí)、成長和熱愛。這就是生命的藝術(shù)。學(xué)習(xí)有時(shí)候會(huì)很慢，有時(shí)候或許會(huì)很痛苦，又或者只是聽天由命。又或許你可以選擇加速自己的成長，故意地?fù)]霍生命及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之畫筆描繪自己未來的藝術(shù)家。

畫出一幅杰作吧！

上帝給了每個(gè)鳥兒食物，但他沒有將食物扔到它們的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做決定的還是你自己。

【人生啟迪】

我們每個(gè)人生活在這個(gè)世界上，都是獨(dú)一無二的，因?yàn)樵谶@個(gè)世界上，我們不可能再找到另外一個(gè)跟自己一模一樣的人，所以我們每個(gè)人都是上帝的杰作，但是上帝只是賜予我們生命，他并不能給我們未來，我們所能做的便是用自己的雙手來創(chuàng)造自己的明天。因此，我們只有不斷地學(xué)習(xí)成長，那么在未來才會(huì)真正成為一幅“杰作”！