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So here's my final story: On a day like today, you might feel exhilarated —like you've just been shot out of a cannon at the circus and even invincible.Don't ever forget that incredible feeling.But also always remember that the moments we have with friends and family,the chances we have to do things that might make a big difference in the world,or even to make a small difference to the ones we love all those wonderful chances that life gives us,life also takes away.It can happen fast, and a whole lot sooner than you think.In late March 1996, soon after I had moved to Stanford for graduate school,my Dad had difficulty breathing and drove to the hospital.Two months later, he died.I was completely devastated.Many years later, after a startup, after falling in love,and after so many of life's adventures,I found myself thinking about my Dad.Lucy and I were far away in a steaming hot village walking through narrow streets.
我還想說個(gè)故事：如果某天你如現(xiàn)在這般欣喜若狂，就像從馬戲團(tuán)的炮口轟了出來，一頭沖向藍(lán)天。請(qǐng)銘記那一刻的美妙，同時(shí)請(qǐng)銘記那些和家人朋友共處的時(shí)光，銘記每一個(gè)上天賦予你改造世界的機(jī)遇，銘記為所愛的人做出的改變，銘記生活賦予的一切美好，但生活也能輕易將它奪走。人生無常，1996年3月下旬，我到斯坦福大學(xué)讀研不久，我的父親便因呼吸困難住進(jìn)了醫(yī)院。兩個(gè)月以后，他去世了。我當(dāng)時(shí)幾乎崩潰，許多年后，我創(chuàng)業(yè)，戀愛。歷生命的種種后，我總會(huì)想起我的父親。我和Lucy去過一個(gè)偏遠(yuǎn)又炎熱的村莊，在狹窄的街道上散步。
There were wonderful friendly people everywhere, but it was a desperately poor place.People used the bathroom inside and it flowed out into the open gutter and straight into the river.We touched a boy with a limp leg, the result of paralysis from polio.Lucy and I were in rural India, one of the few places where Polio still exists.Polio is transmitted fecal to oral, usually through filthy
water.Well, my Dad had Polio.He went on a trip to Tennessee in the first grade and he caught it.He was hospitalized for two months and had to be transported by military DC-3 back home his first flight.
那里的人很友好，卻極度貧窮。污水不經(jīng)處理就徑直流入飲水河道，我們遇到一個(gè)因小兒麻痹而瘸腿的小男孩。那是在印度村莊，少數(shù)還存在小兒麻痹癥的地方。這種病主要?dú)w罪于污染的水源，我的父親也有小兒麻痹癥，他一年級(jí)去田納西州旅行時(shí)患病，住院兩個(gè)月后，由軍用航班DC-3送回家，這是他第一次打飛的。
My Dad wrote,"Then, I had to stay in bed for over a year, before I started back to school."That is actually a quote from his fifth grade autobiography.My Dad had difficulty breathing his whole life,and the Polio are what took him from us too soon.He would have been very upset,that Polio still persists even though we have a vaccine.He would have been equally upset that back in India we had polio virus on our shoes from walking through the contaminated gutters that spread the disease.We were spreading the virus with every footstep,right under beautiful kids playing everywhere.The world is on the verge of eliminating polio,with 328 people infected so far.Let's get it eradicated soon.Perhaps one of you will do that.
他在五年級(jí)的日記里寫道：我必須在床上躺一年，不能上學(xué)。父親一輩子呼吸困難，小兒麻痹癥使他過早離開我們。現(xiàn)在即使有了疫苗，小兒麻痹癥依然肆虐，在印度腳上的鞋子也會(huì)傳播小兒麻痹癥，穿過那被污染的攜帶著病毒的水溝，每走一步都在傳播病毒，病毒橫行于孩子們玩耍的每個(gè)角落，人類正在努力消滅小兒麻痹癥。到目前為止，還有328例感染病例。讓我們加速這一進(jìn)程吧，也許你們中就有人能夠?qū)崿F(xiàn)這個(gè)目標(biāo)。
