年轻时要知道的十三件事（双语）

孩子她恩婆

11. Everything takes twice as long as you plan for and produces results about half as good as you hoped.

努力加倍，期望减半。任何事情都是花掉你计划的两倍时间，最后却只换来你一半的期望结果。

孩子她恩婆

12. People are oddly consistent. Liars usually tell lies. Cheaters cheat whenever it suits them. A person who confides in you has usually confided in several others first—but not got the response they wanted. A loyal friend will stay loyal under enormous amounts of thoughtless abuse.

人是奇怪的偏执狂。撒谎者总是撒谎，骗子总要行骗。一个人对你倾诉的时候，通常已在其它人的面前倾诉过，只是可能没有得到想要回应。一位忠诚的朋友，无论遭受多大的冤屈依旧忠诚。

13. However hard you try, you can't avoid being yourself. Who else could you be? You can act and pretend, but the person acting and pretending is still you. And if you won't accept yourself—and do the best you can with what you have—who then has any obligation to accept you?

接纳自己。不管你怎么努力，你都无法逃避成为自己。除了自己，你还能成为谁呢？你可以扮演和假装，但进行扮演和假装的人还是你自己。如果你都无法接纳自己，没有努力挖掘自己已有的东西，那么谁有义务接纳你呢？