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Then in high school, I learnt that music wasn't just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music.
然后在高中我才知道了音樂不僅是把我們聯系在一起，就像布萊恩和我 通過音樂聯系在一起。
It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration.
而且它還是影響和激勵他人的有力工具。
Sam Nguyen was my high school janitor.
山姆·阮是我高中里的保衛人員。
He was an immigrant from Vietnam who barely spoke a word of English.
他是越南移民。他幾乎不說英語。
Sam swept the floors and cleaned the bathrooms at our school for twenty years.
山姆在我們學校掃地清潔廁所20年了。
He never talked to the kids and the kids never talked to Sam.
他從不和孩子說話，孩子也從不和他說話。
But one day, before the opening night of our school's annual musical, he walked up to me and holding a letter.
但是有一天在我們學校年度音樂會的前一個晚上，他走到我面前，拿著一封信。
And I was taken aback and I was thinking, why is Sam the janitor would approaching me?
我很吃驚，我在想為什么保衛人員山姆會向我走來。
And he gave me this letter that I've kept to this day.
他給了我這封信，我一直保存到今天。
It was scrolled, in a shaky hand written in all capitals, and I read.
它皺巴巴的，像是用顫抖的手寫的，全是大寫字母，于是我看了。
In all my years of working as a janitor at Sutherland, you are the first Asian boy to play the lead role.
在薩瑟蘭德做了那么多年工，你是第一個當主唱的亞洲男孩。
I'm going to bring my six-year-old daughter to watch you perform tonight, because I want her to see that Asians can be inspiring.
我要把我六歲的女兒帶來，今晚帶她來看你的演出，因為我想讓她看見亞洲人也可以激勵人。
And that letter just floored me.
這封信簡直擊倒了我。
I was 15 years old and I was absolutely stunned.
我只有15歲，我完全懵了。
That was the first time I realized how music was so important.
這是第一次我意識到音樂是如此重要。
With Brian, music helped two kids who were initially enemies become friends.
在布萊恩那里，音樂幫助兩個最初是敵人的孩子最終變成朋友。
But with Sam, music went beyond the one-on-one.
而在山姆這里，這已經不只是兩個人之間的關系了。
It was an even higher level, it influenced others I didn't even know in ways I could never imagine.
這是更高一層的，它甚至影響了我不認識的人，這是我從來沒有想過的。
I can't tell you how grateful I am to Sam the janitor to this day.
我無法形容直到今天我還有多感謝保衛人員山姆。
He really is one of the people who helped me discover my life's purpose.
他真的是幫助我發現人生目標的一個人。
And I had no idea that something I did could mean more than ever imagined to an immigrant from Vietnam who barely even spoke English.
我以前不知道我所做的對于一個幾乎不說英語的越南人能發揮如此超乎我想象的作用。
Pop culture, music, and the other methods of storytelling, movies, TV dramas, they are so key, and they do connect us, like me and Brian, and do influence us, and inspire us.
流行文化，音樂，以及其他講故事的方式，電影，電視劇，他們都是連結我們的關鍵，就像我和布萊恩，它們確實影響了我們，激勵了我們。
