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And after a while, he found himself homeless,
過了一段時(shí)間后，他變得無家可歸
literally living under a tree, cold, it was the winter, penniless, didn't have any money and without any friends.
住在一棵樹下面，寒冷難耐，當(dāng)時(shí)是冬天，身無分文，沒有一分錢，也沒有朋友
Absolutely miserable. And somehow for some reason, he said OK.
悲慘極了，然而出于某種原因，他說，好吧
He was in this depression for a few weeks and he said, "well, let me try something."
他抑郁了幾周時(shí)間，然后他說，"我不如試試"
Took out a piece of paper and on this piece of paper, simply wrote everything for which he was grateful.
拿出一張紙，在這張紙上，寫下讓他感激的一切
So the kind of things he wrote there, as he told me: Beethoven's fifth- he loves music.
他寫下來的東西包括，他說：有貝多芬第五交響曲，他酷愛音樂
He wrote his parents, who were in Israel.
他寫下在以色列的父母
He wrote vanilla icecream, which until today is his favorite.
他寫下香草冰淇淋，至今仍是他的最愛
He thought about his friends back home.
他想到家鄉(xiāng)的朋友們
All the things, he made a long list of all the things in the world for which he is grateful for.
所有這些事，他寫了長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的一個(gè)名單，寫下世上讓他感激的事物
And he credits this experience as the turning point in his life.
他將那次經(jīng)歷視為他人生的轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)
Why? Because he started to focus on something else.
為什么？因?yàn)樗_始專注于別的事物
Not just on the impossibilities, on the terrible, but on the possibilities, the wonderful.
不再對(duì)無奈可悲的處境耽耽于懷，而是專注于各種可能和美好的事物
Do the experi... And by the way, he has this- he's now 55 years old.
大家也來試試……隨便說一句，他現(xiàn)在55歲了
He has this piece of paper with him, crumbled but still there, in his wallet, reminding him that there is so much, so so many wonderful things in the world.
仍隨身攜帶這張紙，雖已褶皺，但仍裝在他的錢包里，提醒他世上有太多美好的事物
Just think about the kind of life that we are leading.
想想我們所過的生活
