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This is my third story. When I was 17, I read a quote that
1 something like, "If you live each day
2 it
was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." Since then, for the past thirty-three years, I've looked
3 the mirror every morning and asked myself. "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do
what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a
4 , I know I
need to change something.
About a year ago I was
5 with cancer. Tile doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that
is incurable, and that I should
6 to live no longer than three to six months. They advised me to go home and
get my
7 in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to
8 ". Later that evening when the doctors
9 the
cells taken from my pancreas (胰腺) under a microscope, they started crying because it turned out to be a very
rare form of pancreatic cancer that is
10 with surgery. I had the surgery and,
11 , I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Death
is the
12 we all share. No one has
13 escaped it. And that is
14 it should be, because Death is very likely the
single
15 invention of life. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make
16 for the new. Your time is
17 , so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma (信条)-which is living with the
results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of
18 opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
importantly, have the courage to
19 your heart and intuition (直觉). They
20 already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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