双语美文Ifyoucanx27tchangeasituation,changeyourmind

1、As a recent college grad, I was starting to figure out this adult life thing I got a job, found a place to live and managed to balance a social life with these new 9-5 responsibilities. Things were going according to plan, until they werent. I lost my dad suddenly to cancer, and thats when it felt a

2、s if nothing would ever be good again.作为一个刚刚走由校园的大学毕业生,我开始适应成年人的 生活一一我找到一份工作,找了一个住的地方,努力试着平 衡社交生活和朝九晚五的新责任.一切都依方案进行着,直 到有一天戛然而止.我突然由于癌症失去了父亲,从那时起,好似一切都不会再好起来了.I second-guessed all of my choices and simultaneously assumed that everyone else had it all figured out. I counted the ways I felt cheated: M

3、y grief felt crippling; my job started to lose its luster; I didnt have the bank account I wanted; I didnt like the way I felt on the inside, which translated to how I felt about how I looked and how I acted.I was cranky. a lot. I was tired of seeing friends accelerating into adult life while each d

4、ay felt like a challenge I had to overcome. I was sad from top to bottom and from the inside out - until I heard a quote that quite literally changed my life.我重新审视了自己所有的选择,与此同时感觉其他人好似都 过得清楚明白.我历数自己感觉自欺的地方：我的悲伤愈演 愈烈；工作开始失去荣耀；我还没有存下自己想要的钱；我 不喜欢内心的感觉,也就是说我不喜欢自己的样子、自己的 处事方式.我崩溃了非常严重.我厌倦了去见那些加速 奔向成年生活的朋友

5、们,每天都好似是不得不克服的挑战. 我从上到下、从里到外都浸着悲伤一一直到有一天我听到一 句格言,才真正改变了我的生活.If you cant change a situation, change your mind.“如果你无法改变环境,那么就改变心境.I was in the middle of a yoga class, and it felt like the teacher was speaking directly to me. I cant remember which pose I was in, the song that was playing or the day of

6、the week, but I do remember feeling his words reverberate in my bones. It was a wake up call, and I chose to listen.我当时正在上瑜伽课,这句话就好似是老师直接对我说的.我不记得当时正在做什么姿势、房间里播放着什么样的音 乐、那天是星期几,但我清楚地记得感觉他的话在我的骨髓 里久久回响.那是将我唤醒的声音,而我选择了聆听.Grief is real. And the things dragging me down were mostly out of my control, but

7、 my attitude was something only I could manage. So I started over. I fiercely protected my attitude and reactions to situations the way a mother bear might care for her cub. I had always been such a happy person and I wanted to be that person again.悲伤是真实的,那些将我拖下去的事务也多半是无法掌控 的,但我的态度是我唯一可以限制的东西.所以我让一切

8、重 新开始.我奋力地保护着我对外界环境的态度和反响,就像 一只熊妈妈保护幼崽那样.我曾经是一个那么快乐的人,我 希望能再次成为那个人.I wrote the quote down on post-it notes and stuck them everywhere: on my bedroom mirror, across the back of my phone case and even on my laptop keyboard. I doodled it on my to-do lists and wrote it in my journal. I repeated it to mys

9、elf constantly. I wanted to feel better, and now I had a plan. Timing is everything. If I wasnt ready, the best advice of my life might have fallen on deaf ears. But I wanted so badly to feel better.我把这句格言写在便利贴上,贴在所有的地方：卧室镜子上、 壳反面,甚至是笔记本电脑键盘上.我把它涂写在待办 事项清单上,把它写进日记里.我不断地对自己重复这句话. 我希望感觉好一些,而现在我已经有了一个方

10、案.时机就是 一切.如果我没有做好准备,就很可能会对这句最好的人生 建议充耳不闻,但我是那么渴望感觉好起来.Slowly, I formed a new habit. If you cant change a situation, change your mind became my go-to response for everything from a claustrophobic subway car to a terrible date to a disagreement with a friend. Of course there were days when I felt awfu

11、l despite my best efforts. And there are still moments when negativity gets the best of me.慢慢地,我形成了一个新的习惯.“如果你无法改变环境,那么就改变心境成了我遇事的第一反响,从幽闭的地铁到糟糕的约会再到朋友间的龈齿吾.当然,有些日子尽管尽了最大努 力,仍然感觉很糟,有时候消极思想还是会占据上风.But I made a promise to myself to wake up every day andtry. Feeling angry and upset wont change anything aboutso many situations I found myself in in fact, it usually made th