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My third story is about death.
我的第三個故事是關于死亡的。
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
大概一年前，我被診斷出患有癌癥。我在早晨七點半做了一個掃描，掃描清楚地顯示在我的胰腺有一個腫瘤。醫生告訴我那很可能是一種無法治愈的癌癥，我最多也就能指望活三到六個月的時間。
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening they stuck a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. When they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.
整整一天，我忍受著這個診斷結果。當天晚上我作了一個活體切片檢查，他們將一根針插進我的胰腺，從腫瘤上取了幾個細胞。醫生在顯微鏡下觀察這些細胞時尖叫起來，因為這竟然是一種非常罕見的可以用手術治愈的胰腺癌。我做了這個手術，現在我沒事了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, and have the courage to follow heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
那是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望這也是以后的幾十年里最接近的一次。沒有人愿意死，即使想上天堂的人，也不想死了再去，但死亡是所有人共同的終點，從來沒有人能夠逃脫。你們的時間很有限，所以不要將它浪費在過別人的生活上。不要被教條束縛，那意味著你的生活是他人思考的結果。不要讓他人喋喋不休的意見湮沒你自己內心的聲音。最重要的是，你要有勇氣去聽從直覺和心靈的指示。它們在某種程度上已經知道你真正想要成為什么。
