Happiness is the process of becoming your ideal self.
快乐，就是成为理想中的自己的过程。
Completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game.
与吃一块巧克力蛋糕相比，跑完一场马拉松让我们更快乐。与打赢电子游戏相比，养育一个孩子让我们更快乐。
Starting a small business with friends and struggling to make money makes us happier than buying a new computer.
与买一台新电脑相比，和朋友创业并努力挣钱让我们更快乐。
And the funny thing is that all three of the activities above are exceedingly unpleasant and require setting high expectations and potentially failing to always meet them.
有趣的是，这三件事，都是非常令人不适的事情，它们需要我们设定很高的期待，并且我们可能无法一直都能满足这么高的期待。
Yet, they are some of the most meaningful moments and activities of our lives. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair, yet once we've done them, we look back and get misty-eyed about them.
然而，它们却是我们生命中最有意义的瞬间，最有意义的事情。它们让我们经历痛苦，挣扎，甚至愤怒，绝望，但是，一旦做成了这些事，在回首往事时，我们就会感慨得泪眼朦胧。
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