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An Identity of One's Own
In the eternal universe, every human being has
a one-off chance to live---his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the
mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately
afterwards.
Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions
that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of
and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your
life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you
that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive
individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your
worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your
commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.
It is not easy
to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be
identified as anything ---either his job, his status or his social role---that
shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he
has no identity of his own, if he doesn't know his own mind and all his things
are either arranged by others or done on others' suggestions; if his life,
always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You
won't be able to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs
to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine
capable of doing business.
活出个性
在茫茫宇宙间，每个人都只有一次生存的机会，都是一个独一无二、不可重复的存在。正像卢梭所说的，上帝把你造出来后，就把那个属于你的特定的模子打碎了。
名声、财产、知识等等是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但没有人能够代替你感受人生。你死之后，没有人能够代替你再活一次。如果你真正意识到了这一点，你就会明白，活在世上，最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。你的人生是否有意义，衡量的标准不是外在的成功，而是你对人生意义的独特领悟和坚守，从而使你的自我闪放出个性的光华。
真正成为自己不是一件容易的事。世上有许多人，你说他是什么都行，例如是一种职业，一个身份，一个角色，惟独不是他自己。如果一个人总是按别人的意见生活，没有自己的独立思索，总是为外在事务忙碌，没有自己的内心生活，那么，说他不是他自己就一点儿也没有冤枉他。因为确确实实，从他的头脑到他的心灵，你在其中已经找不到丝毫真正属于他自己的东西了，他只是别人的一个影子和事务的一架机器罢了。
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