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人生如诗
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我认为，从生物学的角度看，人生就像一首诗。它有自己的韵律和节奏，有自己内部盛衰的进程。人生始于无知的少年，即之于笨拙的青年，带着青春的激情，蠢笨，理想和抱负，笨拙地想把自己融于成熟的社会；接下来就步入成年，紧张的一段人生，从人生经历中受益颇多，也更多地了解了社会和人性；人到中年，生活的压力稍稍放松，如果实的成熟，美酒的浓醇，人生已进入了成熟老练的阶段，逐渐形成的人生观也更加容忍，更加自我，更加友善；在人生的黄昏，我们的内分泌腺减少了它的活动，如果我们悟出了老年哲学，并以此模本来规划人生，那应是一个和谐，平安，从容，满足的年龄；最后，人生闪烁而熄，长眠不醒。
我们应该有能力感觉到人生的韵律美，正如我们欣赏恢宏的交响曲一样，我们欣赏人生的主题，冲突的旋律和最终的结局。这些过程的律动诚如平常的人生，但这曲音乐必须由我们本人来提供。有些人的不和谐音符变得越来越刺耳，最终弥漫淹没了主旋律。有时不合谐的音符占了上峰，此人会以手枪结束生命或纵身跳入河中。这一切皆因最初的主旋律被过度的渲染，缘于缺乏自知之明。否则，人生如河，会带着尊严，正常流淌，从始至终。我们许多人中有时会有太多的断音和强音，节奏一乱，音乐就不再悦耳动听。我们宁愿倾听恒河之水节奏和韵律的壮丽恢宏，缓慢但永恒，汇入海洋之中。
没有人会说人生的少年，成年和老年不是一个绝美的安排，正如一天有早晨，正午和黄昏，一年有四季，这样的安排其妙无穷。人生无好坏之分，除非按照自己的季节灿烂出众。如果我们采取这种动物学的人生观，根据不同季节去度过一生，除非自负的傻瓜和难处的理想主义者，没人会否认我们可以度过诗样的一生。莎士比亚在他的文章中以生动的语言阐述此观点为七阶段人生，许多中国作家也异曲同工。很奇怪，莎士比亚不信教，并对宗教绝无热情。我想这正是他的伟大之处，他眼中是原样人生，把自己视为万物总格局的一个闯入者，一如他作品中的主人公。莎士比亚人如自然，这是我们能给一个作家或思想家的最高美评。他只是活过，观察过，然后离去。
Human Life a Poem
I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward adolescence trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society, with its young passions and follies, its ideals and ambitions; then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature; at middle age, there is a slight easing of tension, a mellowing of character like the ripening of fruit or the mellowing of good wine, and the gradual acquiring of a more tolerant, more cynical and at the same time a kindlier view of life; then In the sunset of our life, the endocrine glands decrease their activity, and if we have a true philosophy of old age and have ordered our life pattern according to it, it is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and contentment; finally, life flickers out and one goes into eternal sleep, never to wake up again.
One should be able to sense the beauty of this rhythm of life, to appreciate, as we do in grand symphonies, its main theme, its strains of conflict and the final resolution. The movements of these cycles are very much the same in a normal life, but the music must be provided by the individual himself. In some souls, the discordant note becomes harsher and harsher and finally overwhelms or submerges the main melody. Sometimes the discordant note gains so much power that the music can no longer go on, and the individual shoots himself with a pistol or jump into a river. But that is because his original leitmotif has been hopelessly over-showed through the lack of a good self-education. Otherwise the normal human life runs to its normal end in kind of dignified movement and procession. There are sometimes in many of us too many staccatos or impetuosos, and because the tempo is wrong, the music is not pleasing to the ear; we might have more of the grand rhythm and majestic tempo of the Ganges, flowing slowly and eternally into the sea.
No one can say that life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem. Shakespeare has expressed this idea more graphically in his passage about the seven stages of life, and a good many Chinese writers have said about the same thing. It is curious that Shakespeare was never very religious, or very much concerned with religion. I think this was his greatness; he took human life largely as it was, and intruded himself as little upon the general scheme of things as he did upon the characters of his plays. Shakespeare was like Nature itself, and that is the greatest compliment we can pay to a writer or thinker. He merely lived, observed life and went away.
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