Unit 10 Reflections on Life
A Diary of the Century
How do I feel upon becoming 50 years old? Surprid. Surprid that I should live so long. Surprid that it should em so short. Surprid that I am not famous. Surprid that I should be surprid becau I am not famous.
All my life I have been motivated by curiosity. I wonder why? My mother wasn't curious. Although my grandfather died before I was born, judging from what I've heard about him, read about him, and from the books he left, I think it is possible that I inherited my curiosity from him. Born in England of Welsh parents, he came to America alone when he was only 16 years old.
timezoneAt the age of 50 my mind is better than ever—surpri, surpri! I can concentrate with the intensity of a beam of sunshine focud through a magnifying glass. Guilt and passion distract my attention far less frequently. Slowly I begin to perceive the relationships among
everything I have experienced and read. My analys and judgments em sounder than before. My curiosity burns brighter. Problems once mysterious now em obvious.
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And yet—! Every new answer breeds a dozen new questions. What I know, compared with what I do not know, is like a grain of sand by the a. I am not sure whether there is anything absolute. While I believe I am alive, I am unable to say exactly what this phra means. Maybe the atoms that make up my body now existed before I was born, and maybe they will continue to exist after I die.
A few people consider me egotistical. Actually, I am humble. I was lucky to have been born with a fairly good mind, and I have spent years polishing this instrument I inherited. I'll admit I become impatient when confronted with ignorance. However, I know my limitations even better than my capabilities. At times I feel discouraged by my own ignorance.
I can find no meaning in life. I believe that the individual life can be filled with meaning only through love and work of one's choice. My wife is a more valuable person than I bec
au she has an infinite capacity for loving others. She is a genius at loving. I am a genius at nothing. When she dies an ocean of tears will flow. I admire her without envying her.
When I was a boy of 14 I knew I wanted to become a reporter and then an author. Well, now I am an experienced reporter and next fall my first book will be published. The fact that I say first proves that I am optimistic about my career. I believe that the next decade of my life will become the most fruitful one. Perhaps my only really valuable creation is this diary. pharrell
My 10 months of psychoanalysis have helped me learn how to forgive mylf. I'm more at peace with mylf now than at any time in the past. Nevertheless, I'm aware I haven't identified all my psychological conflicts, let alone resolved them. Bertrand Rusll says there are three major conflicts: 1) Man against his environment; 2) man against man; 3) man against himlf. In my opinion, the conflict of man with himlf is the most troublesome.
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Carved on the temple of Delphi was "Know thylf." I think I know mylf better than most people becau I spend more time studying mylf than anything el. A diarist is a writer who watches himlf. If I can learn to know mylf well, then I'll be able to know others as well. tingclass
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Human beings are more alike than different. By paying clo attention to whatever I feel and think, I can learn what others feel and think. Fortunately, it is the differences among people that make them interesting.
中英文Now that I've got rid of much of my guilt, now that I am less rigid about what I expect from mylf, I get along better with others becau I expect less from them, too. Life hurts. For years I've realized I'm an eccentric, without understanding exactly what I meant by this word. Now I know: An eccentric is one who insists upon being himlf regardless of the opinion of others, provided he does not hurt them or himlf. If everyone in the world were as eccentric, meaning if everyone accepted himlf, there would be no more war.
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Now that I have lived a half-century, do I have any regrets? Sure, I regret that I was slow t
o mature. I regret that I did not become a psychoanalyst. Although I am not sorry I decided to become a journalist, I wish that early on I had chon to become a therapist. Why? Becau nothing interests me more than human nature.
brillianceWe are left with two frontiers. One is outer space. The other is inner space. While I lack the interest and ability to probe outer space, I'm rather well equipped to probe the mysteries of the human mind. But will I be able to communicate them to others?
My brother, an inventor with veral patents, is perhaps the world's leading expert about shock absorbers. But he and I cannot communicate about them. I have no technical knowledge of his specialty. He cannot explain it in simple language. This is an example of the failure of communication between the specialist and the layman. This breakdown is spreading. It is as though nerve endings had lost touch with one another. For lack of communication we may come to the end of civilization.
