What is it that nobody tells you about adult life?
成人世界没人会告诉你的有哪些？
A really good friend of mine, Adam, hung himself last year. He was the happiest guy in the world. His father left for work in the morning and came back to find him in the hall of his family house, hung from the ceiling fan with a belt. No-one has any idea why, nor will anyone ever know why Adam did what he did. Adam's parents have nothing to go on, no closure for why Adam did what he did, but they're slowly learning to accept it and move on with life.
我的一位非常要好的朋友，亚当，去年上吊自杀了。他父亲早晨离开家去上班了，当他回来的时候发现他儿子在房子的走廊上，用皮带挂在吊风扇上自杀了。没人知道为什么，也没有人知道为什么亚当要这么做。亚当的爸妈一时难以继续生活，不过他们逐渐学会接受这一切，让生活继续下去。
Adam's dad said something quite poignant to me at his funeral:
"Know one thing. Life is terminal. It is going to end, and you have absolutely no idea when, how or why it will end. And for that reason, live each day like it's the last."
亚当的父亲在亚当的葬礼说了一些我觉得很深刻的话，他说:“你需要知道一件事，生命都是有终点的。生命肯定有尽头，只不过你肯定不知道何时何地以及为什么会走到尽头。因此，出于这一原因，我们应该过每一天都像生命中的最后一天。”
And that's just it... life is temporary - death is a taboo and a lot of people don't talk about it.Whether you do, or you don't -make the most of every day and absolutely every moment, because there'll be a day when a person/people you love aren't around, for whatever reason, and you'll want to say 'I made the most of my time with X' rather than starting a sentence off with 'I wish...'
这就好像生命只是暂时的，死亡是很多人忌讳不会经常谈论的东西。无论你会不会这么做，你都应该充分利用每一天，甚至每一分钟。因为总有一天，当你爱的人因为什么原因不在了，你就能说，和X的每一分钟都没遗憾了，而且不是用这样的句子开头，“我希望……”
As they say,life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we should dance.
正如他们所说的，生活可能不是我们希望的那么美好的聚会，但是，我们既然来了，就应该把舞跳起来。
原文作者及出处：Arjun Panesar，from Quora
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