MSE81 版 (精华区)
发信人: fenlioy (秋天来了,一群大雁往南飞), 信区: MSE81
标 题: How to grow old
发信站: BBS 听涛站 (Wed Nov 5 23:49:02 2003), 站内
【 以下文字转载自 reading&culture 讨论区 】
发信人: hw (懒妖,还有一年?), 信区: reading&culture
标 题: How to grow old
发信站: BBS 听涛站 (Wed Nov 5 20:04:04 2003), 转信
Bertrand Russell, from "Portraits from Memory"
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a
justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they
will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they
have been cheated of the best things that life offer. But in an old man who
has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him
to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to
overcome it -- so at least it seems to me -- is to make your interests
gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego
recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An
individual human existence should be like a river -- small at first, narrowly
contained within its banks, and rushing passionatedly past boulders and over
waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow
more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in
the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age,
can see his life in this way, will not suffer from decay of vitality, weariness
increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die
while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,
and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
--
我双手烤着
生命之火取暖;
火萎了,
我也准备走了。
※ 来源:·BBS 听涛站 tingtao.net·[FROM: 166.111.36.57]
Powered by KBS BBS 2.0 (http://dev.kcn.cn)
页面执行时间:3.362毫秒