我應該愛自己,但具體該怎麼做呢?後來我從一個朋友那兒獲得了靈感。她注意到,每當她妄自菲薄時,我都會很快地為她辯解。她說「我真笨」,我會說「你很有才啊」。她說「我很軟弱」,我會說「你很有韌性」。她說「我感覺自己不好看」,我會說「你很美啊」。她問我,為什麼我總是盡職盡責地看好別人,卻對自己如此不負責任呢?
Because when I looked in the mirror, my voice was quite clear: you're ugly, you're too thin, your hairline's receding, you got a pimple on your chin, and that was when she gave me a piece of advice that changed my life. She gave me a hug and she said treat yourself like someone you loved, treat yourself like someone you loved. Now I've been standing but I needed to be sitting because I couldn't believe that I had been letting myself keep forgetting that I was who I'd been looking for, and deep in my core I knew it was time to stop looking for more until I could look through all my fear and look into a mirror and see clearly that the man looking back at me was the only one who can make me happy, and I am already enough.
因為,每當我照鏡子時,我內心的聲音是如此清晰:你不好看,你太瘦了,你的髮際線正在後移,你下巴那兒有個小疙瘩。但她給我的建議卻改變了我的生活。她擁抱了我,說「像對待你愛的人那樣對待自己」,沒錯,像對待你愛的人那樣對待自己。那現在,我一直在站著演講,我應該讓自己坐下,因為難以置信的是,我一直以來都忘記了這樣一件事——其實我本身就是那個我一直在尋找的人,而且我內心知道了:現在我不該再去找尋其他的人,直到我能夠看穿所有的恐懼,而且面對鏡子,我能清楚地知道鏡子裡的唯有那個人能帶給我快樂,我已經很了不起了。
And I am not any more special or unique than you, that is why I'm here to speak to you, you are already enough, and when you start to see that you will start to be that, your world will get brighter, your load will get lighter, and you can see that with life you can be a lover, not a fighter, and that life, you deserve it, because you are worth it, and there is no point in letting yourself keep forgetting because no matter what you say or do, you are perfect.
而且,我跟大家都一樣,這也是我在這裡演講的原因,也就是說你們跟我一樣優秀,當你開始關注自己時,你就會變成你理想的模樣。你的世界會更加靚麗,路會越走越寬,而且你熱愛生活,而非在生活中掙扎,你值得過這樣的生活,因為你配的上它。輕視自己、忽視自己的感受是毫無意義的,因為無論你說什麼或做什麼,你都足夠完美了。
And so today I hope I leave you with a direction correction away from the flaws you see in your reflection, they aren't flaws to me, they are simply protection against all the doubts you have of your perfection. So start today, take a good long look in the mirror and say I am who I've been looking for.
所以,今天我希望大家能正確看待自己的缺陷,在我看來,他們不是什麼缺點,而是你懷疑自己完美性的藉口罷了。那麼,不妨就從今天開始,仔細看看鏡子中的自己,然後對自己說:原來我本身就是自己一直尋找的那個人。