英语智慧背囊 12-什么最重要

[00:02.63]What Will Matter?什么最重要
[00:05.87]Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
[00:10.10] There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.
[00:15.59]All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
[00:22.24]Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
[00:27.96] It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
[00:31.99]Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
[00:37.45]So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.
[00:43.80] The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
[00:49.00]It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.
[00:54.52]It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
[00:57.76] Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.
[01:02.00]So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
[01:07.03]What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built;
[01:11.27]not what you got, but what you gave.
[01:14.45]What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
[01:19.47]What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
[01:23.95]What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
[01:28.88]What will matter is not how many people you knew,
[01:32.60]but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.
[01:36.43]What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.
[01:41.71]What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
[01:46.93]Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.
[01:51.20]It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
[01:55.24]Choose to live a life that matters.