面对不成功的人生

如何面对不成功的人生？首先，什么是不成功的人生？我觉得我，包括现场所有的你们，谁都不能说自己的人生是不成功的人生。因为你的人生根本还没有结束。只要我们还没死，我们只是在人生中遇到了失败而已，谁都不许说自己的人生是不成功的人生。

Liu Yuanyuan: How to face an unsuccessful life? First of all, what is an unsuccessful life? I think, to me, and to every one of you presented, none of us is allowed to say that our life is unsuccessful. Because, our life hasn’t ended at all. As long as we are not dead, we are just encountering failures within our life, so none of us is allowed to say that our life is unsuccessful.

媛媛告诉我们说啊，只要人还没死，无法判断成功失败。现在社会上流行的心灵鸡汤经常告诉我们一个道理，就是，只要你坚持，只要你玩儿命，是一定会成功的。而且万一你不成功，每个人对成功的标准不一样，你只要有心灵的满足，那也算是一种成功。我不知道在座各位的自我欺骗能力如何，反正我总是会发现，人生这出戏，我不是主角，只是个死跑龙套的。

Ma Weiwei: Yuanyuan told us that as long as a person is not dead, his successfulness is undecidable. The popular chicken soup philosophy in this society always tells us that, success will follow your persistence and hard work. If you fail to succeed, well, the standard of being successful varies for different people, so you are told it is a success if you are content. I don’t know your ability in deceiving yourselves, my conclusion is, if life is a play, I’m never the leading role, but a freaking walk-on.

人生这出戏，我是你，你们所有人人生中的龙套，但我是我自己人生的主角。所以在我遭遇失败的时候，在我被观众喝倒彩的时候，我一个人也能，而且必须会唱下去。对，我是北大的，但高中的时候，谁都想不到我是一个差等生。是那种不写作业，全年级两百多个人，我考一百八十多名的那种差等生。然后有一天，这个差等生突然异想天开想要考北大，然后像个神经病一样去努力。但是高考的时候，我还是没考上。有人说你失败了，我失败了吗？承认失败多容易呀，比那种日复一日的坚持跟忍耐容易多了，但是我不服气。四年之后考研，我又考回北大了。
所以说，一个人，他一辈子不做任何尝试，他不做任何冒险的事，他也不为任何事情努力，他也永远都不会失败，他都没有资格遭遇失败。但是你不同，你做过梦，你发过疯，你哭过，笑过，奋斗过，你爱过，恨过，你也后悔过。于是啊，芸芸众生中，那么那么普通的一个你，却拼尽全力活出最好的自己。又有谁有资格说你的人生不成功。

Liu Yuanyuan: In this play of life, I am a walk-on in each and every life of yours, but I am the protagonist of my own life. So when I come across failure, when I am barracked by the audience, I can, and must keep on singing. True that I am a student of Peking University, but none of you may believe it if I tell you that I was an underachiever. I was one of those who didn’t finish assignments, who was ranked below 180 among over 200 students. Then, one day, this underachiever suddenly fantasized that she wanted to go to Peking University. So she started to work really hard, so hard as if she was mad. Still, I didn’t get enough score in college entrance examination. Some may say that I failed, but did I? How easy would it be to just admit that I failed. It would be so much easier than the persistence and enduring day after day. I persisted and endured. After four years, I was admitted by Peking University for postgraduate study.
So, it’s fair to say, a man who never attempts, who never risks anything, and who never works hard for anything, will never fail, because he’s not even qualified for failures. But you are not the same—you had your dreams, and you were mad for it. You had your cries, your laughter, and your fights. You had your love, your hatred and your regrets. Resultantly, among all the living creatures, a so very common you, tried all you can to live out the best of yourself. Who is to say your life is unsuccessful?

一将功成万骨枯，一个分子，无数分母。成功这件事儿，其实，成功率极低。毕竟，猴子都知道往香蕉比较多的树上爬。权衡得失，趋利避害，是每一个动物的本能。可是在场的每一位朋友，你们知道吗，追求这种近乎渺茫的成功，正是我们人类区别于其他动物之所在。因为你几乎注定会失败，所以，你期待成功的每一天，都充满了一种叫做忐忑的幸福。当你拼尽全力而失败依旧来临的时候，你会知道，你的一生，因为浪费在理想上，所以它从来不曾被浪费。

Ma Weiwei: What millions died that Caesar might be great. One becomes the numerator, but he could be followed by denominators of numerous. The probability of a success is very low.  Even monkeys know a more fruitful banana tree worth better to climb onto. It’s the basic instinct of every animal to weigh pros and cons, to foster strengths and to circumvent weaknesses. However, my dear friends, do you know that the pursuit of this almost unachievable success, is the very difference between us human beings and other animals. You may be doomed for failure, but every day of your pursuit of success, you will be filled with anxious happiness. So when failure does come despite how hard you tried, you still feel that your life was never wasted because you wasted it on your dream.

每一个理想都值得你拿一生去拼命。人生这么短，我就选择做那种又盲目又热情的傻瓜。永远年轻，永远热泪盈眶^[1]，永远相信梦想。相信努力的意义，相信遗憾比失败更可怕。因为不成功的人生，它只是不完美，但是它完整。

Liu Yuanyuan: Every dream is worth fighting with your entire life for. Life is too short for me to not choose to be a blind and enthusiastic fool, who is forever youthful, forever weeping, and forever believing in dreams. Believe in the significance of trying. Believe that regrets are much more horrifying than failure. Because an unsuccessful life, is just imperfect, not incomplete.

是啊，泰戈尔说：“飞鸟从天空飞过，可它并没有留下痕迹。”可是我的朋友，你知道吗，你自己应该懂，你在这片天空飞翔过。

Ma Weiwei: Right, Tagore said, “I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.” So my dear friends, you should also be able to remember that you have had your flight in the sky of life.