论生命之短暂 | On the Shortness of Life

It's not that we have a short time to live, 

我们的生命并不短促，

but that we waste much of it.

只是我们浪费了太多时间。

Life is long enough,

其实人生很漫长，

and it's been given to us in generous measure for accomplishing the greatest things,

若能好好经营，必定足够

if the whole of it is well invested.

让我们成就很多大事。

But when life is squandered through soft and careless living, 

但若轻率随便地挥霍生命，

and when it's spent on no worthwhile pursuit,

浪费在无意义的追求中，

death finally presses

当死亡最终来临

and we realize that the life which we didn't notice passing has passed away.

我们才觉悟已经虚耗了一生。

Scant is the part of life in which we live.

很多时候我们只是虚耗光阴，

All the rest of existence is not living but merely time.

并非真正地生活！