Are your parents alive?

你的父母還健在嗎？

Yeah.

是啊

How old are your parents, if you don't mind?

如果你不介意的話，你父母多大年紀？

70.

70.

Okay.

好的

And where do they live?

他們住在哪裡？

In different parts of Washington State.

在華盛頓州的不同地區。

Okay.

好的

Do you see them?

你看到它們了嗎？

Yeah.

是啊

Pretty often?

經常嗎？

Once to three times a year.

每年一到三次。

Okay.

好的

So let's say they live to be 78, which is the, I hope they don't.

假設他們活到 78 歲，我希望他們活不到 78 歲。

But let's say that they live to the average age.

但假設他們活到了平均年齡。

So you see them, you said once to three times?

你說你見過他們一到三次？

Yeah.

是啊

Okay.

好的

No, you don't.

不，你沒有。

If you see them twice a year, you're going to see them 16 more times.

如果你一年見他們兩次，那麼你還會再見到他們 16 次。

When you look at it that way, you're like, what?

當你這樣看的時候，你會想，什麼？

You don't have eight years with them.

你沒有八年的時間和他們在一起。

You have 16 times with them.

你和他們在一起有 16 次。

And that's the shift in my life.

這就是我人生的轉變。

And that's the way I look at things.

這就是我看待問題的方式。

That's a fundamental shift in the way that I looked at situations six months ago.

這與我六個月前看問題的方式發生了根本性的轉變。

And it's created urgency.

這就產生了緊迫感。

It's created a need to just not put stuff off and to recognize what's on your list of things that you want to do.

這就要求我們不要拖延，要認識到自己的清單上有哪些事情是想做的。

And your relationship with time is such a key component of your life because when you get caught in your routine, time goes so quickly.

你與時間的關係是你生活的關鍵組成部分，因為當你沉浸在日常事務中時，時間會過得非常快。

When you understand that there are maybe only 28 summers left, and if you want to truly get as much experientially out of life, it just creates a tremendous amount of urgency.

當你明白也許只剩下 28 個夏天時，如果你想真正從生活中獲得儘可能多的體驗，就會產生巨大的緊迫感。

And the fear goes away.

恐懼就會消失。

Because you're like, nobody on the planet, no one's going to be here in 100 years.

因為你會想，地球上沒有人，100年後也不會有人在這裡。

Do I care what he thinks?

我在乎他怎麼想嗎？

We're not going to be here in 100 years.

100 年後，我們將不在這裡。

So why would I take the chance?

我為什麼要冒這個險？

And it's just, I don't know.

我也不知道。

I stopped writing it because I'm so aware of it.

我不再寫了，因為我意識到了這一點。

There's not a day that goes by where my head hits the pillow, where I don't say to myself, did I maximize the day and am I aware of my mortality?

沒有一天，當我的頭落在枕頭上時，我不會對自己說，我是否最大限度地利用了這一天，我是否意識到了自己的死亡？

And it might sound depressing, but it's not.

這聽起來可能令人沮喪，但其實不然。

For me, it's thrilling.

對我來說，這很刺激。

I just said to my wife as I turned 50, let's have a big celebration.

我剛對我的妻子說，在我 50 歲的時候，讓我們好好慶祝一下。

This is a monumental birthday, and it's really affecting me, how I think.

這是一個有紀念意義的生日，它真的影響了我，影響了我的思維方式。

I didn't think it would, but turning 50 is having a big impact on me.

我沒想到會這樣，但 50 歲對我的影響很大。

And I said, when I was 25, I had a big party in New York City where I was living, and I want to kind of replicate that.

我說，當我 25 歲的時候，我在我居住的紐約市舉辦了一個大型派對，我想複製那個場景。

And she said, wow, honey, think about all the things that you've accomplished in the last 25 years.

她說，哇，親愛的，想想你在過去 25 年裡完成的所有事情吧。

And I'm like, I appreciate it, but I haven't done anything compared to the potential and what I want to do.

我想，我很感激，但與我的潛力和我想做的事相比，我還什麼都沒做。

And she said, well, then think about the things that you've loved to do over the last 25 years.

她說，那就想想過去 25 年裡你喜歡做的事情吧。

What are the things that you've loved to do, and who have you loved to do them with?

你喜歡做哪些事情，喜歡和誰一起做？

And for me, it's been the races, the travel, this and that.

而對我來說，則是比賽、旅行、這樣那樣的事情。

She said, well, look, put as much of that on your plate as you can with the people that you love to do it with in the next 25 years of your life.

她說，好吧，聽著，在你未來 25 年的生活中，儘可能多地和你喜歡的人一起做這些事。

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