You are the main character.

你是主要角色

The protagonist.

主演者

The star at the center of your own unfolding story.

你是由你人生娓娓道來的故事所環繞的恆星

You're surrounded by your supporting cast:

你被你的配角們所環繞著

friends and family hanging in your immediate orbit.

朋友與家人在離你最近的軌道繞著你旋轉

Scattered a little further out, a network of acquaintances

散布在稍微遠一點的地方，是這些年來

who drift in and out of contact over the years.

那些來來去去的點頭之交所構成的網路

But there in the background, faint and out of focus,

而在背景之後，黯淡而失焦的

are the extras.

是你的臨時演員

The random passersby.

那些隨機路過的過客

Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

他們活著他們獨自的，和你一樣鮮明而複雜的人生

They carry on invisibly around you,

在你周圍以你看不見的方式運行著

bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions,

乘載著生命中不斷增長的負荷和雄心壯志

friends,

朋友

routines,

日常

mistakes,

失誤

worries,

煩憂

triumphs and

勝利

inherited craziness.

和天生的瘋狂

When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place,

當你人生的電影進入下一個場景，他們在適當的地方閃爍著

wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes

被其背景故事以及他們的圈內笑話之雲所籠罩

and characters strung together with countless other stories that you'll never be able to see.

這些人物與其他無數的故事串連在一起，而這些故事你永遠都不會知道

That you'll never know exists.

你甚至不會認知到他們存在

In which you might appear only once.

你可能在只其中出現過一次

As an extra sipping coffee in the background.

做為一個在背景中啜著咖啡的臨時演員

As a blur of traffic passing on the highway.

作為一個高速公路上熙熙攘攘的模糊景象

As a lighted window at dusk.

作為一個在黃昏亮起的窗台