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抱负
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想象一个没有抱负的世界并不难。没有追示，没有磨擦，没有失望，可能更加友好。人们有了反思时间。他们的所作所为不再是为自己，而是为了大家的利益。竞争不再介入，冲突将被消灭，紧张成为过去。创造所带来的精神压力将会终结。艺术不再给人带来烦恼，而只是为了庆典。人们的寿命将延长，因为缘于努力所带来的心绪不宁所引发的心脏病和脑中风将大为减少。焦虑将不复存在。人心中没了抱负，时间将会无限延伸。
啊，延续不断的生命将会是多么单调乏味！
有一种观点势头很强劲，它认为成功是神话,抱负是骗局。这意味着成功真的不存在吗？成绩本质上真的是虚妄的吗？在茫茫宇宙的进程中,人类的努力真得微不足道吗？很显然，并非所有的成功都值得敬重，也并非所有的抱负都值得培养。值与不值是我们很快就能靠自己弄明白的事情。但即使是最愤世嫉俗的人也得承认，成功存在着，成绩很重要，人类行为无用说才是真正的虚妄。相信行为无用的观点，很可能使他们神经错乱。在该咱观点影响下，获取本领没了动机，提高水平失了兴趣，关心下一代没了热情。
我们不能选择自己的出生。我们不能选择父母是谁，不能出生的选择历史时期，不能选择出生的国度，也不能选择长大成人的环境。我们大多数人也不能选择死亡。我们无法选择何时死亡怎样死亡。但在所有这些无法选择的领域内，我们可以选择怎样活着，是勇敢还是懦弱，是体面还是丢脸，是目标明确还是随波逐流。我们可以决定生活中哪些是大事，哪些是琐事。我们可以决定哪些事可以做，哪些事不能做，这一切使得我们与众不同。但无论我们的选择和决定在茫茫宇宙中显得多么无足轻重，这些选择和决定还得要做出。我们选择，我们决定。在选择和决定中，我们的人生得以完成。最终我们的抱负注定了自己的命运。
附：原文
Ambition
It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.
Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!
There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
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