The fire is not to be betrayed 生命之火永存
文章來源: 北鶴2006-07-31 23:39:18

從一精彩的博客上看到的,我十分欣賞的人生座右銘:

Life is an Adventure; Driven by Passion,and Persistence...

I have to say, I've got plenty of Passion, and am still working on Persistence…

Ayn Rand 象一把火炬,用自己生命的幹枯,燃燒出燦爛的思想


The fire is not to be betrayed 
 
From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

It is not in the nature of man--nor of any living entity--to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it. Then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of their elders who tell them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one's mind; security, of abandoning one's values; practicality, of losing self-esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that that fire is not to be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality. But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. ...

天性使然, 人或者任何一個活著的生物並不會生來就要放棄, 唾棄自己, 詛咒自己的存在-人墮落到這個地步其實需要一種腐化的過程, 而且每一個人的蛻化過程都有所不同: 有些人在壓力剛一出現就一觸即潰; 有些人出賣了自己; 還有些人隨波逐流, 每天都以不易察覺的方式在蛻化, 直到完全失去了心中的那股熱情和火焰, 而且自己也不知道何時何地如何失去的. 然後這些腐化的靈魂又完全被沉浸消失在那現有的社會製度和規範的泥潭之中. 這腐化的泥潭通過老一輩人的口中,喋喋不休地在那裏向他們說教-成熟需要放棄自己的思想而達到, 心理平衡需要放棄自己的價值而取得, 麵對現實,實事求是需要放棄自我…

可是還是有人始終堅持著, 他們知道他們不可能放棄自己心中之火, 他們努力試圖給予這燃燒的熱情予以目的和形式, 將其變成現實. 無論他們的未來如何, 從出生的那一刻開始, 他們就開始了他們的旅程,去尋找那屬於人類光輝的遠見和生命的潛能…