2.Bad things will happen to you and your friends. – Part of living and growing up is experiencing unexpected troubles in life. People lose jobs, get in car accidents and sometimes die. When you are younger, and things are going pretty well, this harsh reality can be hard to visualize. The smartest, and oftentimes hardest, thing we can do in these kinds of situations is to be tempered in our reactions. To want to scream obscenities, but to wiser and more disciplined than that. To remember that emotional rage only makes matters worse. And to remember that tragedies are rarely as bad as they seem, and even when they are, they give us an opportunity to grow stronger.
壞事也有找上門的可能。經歷生命中的意外麻煩其實是生活和成長的一部分。人們可能會失業、遭遇車禍甚至死亡。當你還年幼,相信一切還都很美好,是很難想象到嚴酷的現實的。然而在這些遭遇面前,我們所能做的最小的也通常是最難的事情就是適應。想要張狂地尖叫,但是智慧和自律總會將之代替。要記住過于情緒化的憤怒會讓事情變得更糟。也要記住悲劇很少會像它們看起來那么悲慘,同時,就算它們悲慘如斯,也恰好給了我們變強壯的機會。
3.Everyone can make a huge difference. – Making one person smile can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So start small and start now.
每個人都可以與眾不同。讓一個人微笑可以改變一個世界。也許不是整個世界,但卻是他自己的世界。所以就從小事從現在做起吧。