第21章 创造自己的生活

sibility is a major lesson of adulthood.If you still haven’t learned the lesson of responsibility，it‘s not too late.Remember，life will provide you with plenty of opportunities to get it right.

    学会承担责任，能够使你不断前进，创造更美好的未来。我知道一个叫玛丽的女子，她勇于向命运挑战的事迹一直让我备受鼓舞。玛丽出生在古巴，两岁时，举家搬迁到迈阿密他们的生活极度贫困，所住的地方是迈阿密的危险地区，犯罪和毒品已泛滥成灾。然而，玛丽在她仅八岁时就立志要干出一番事业，而不甘心只当个女佣或是当地超市的收银员。为此，她每天准时上学，从不旷课，有时甚至不得不从那些醉倒在家门口的酒鬼身上跨过去。

    最终，玛丽离开了迈阿密，并获得了很好的教育，她的音乐天赋也得到发展。玛丽本可以向命运屈服、埋怨自己的父母或是当地的文化状况，也可以完全拒绝承担任何责任。然而，玛丽还是承担了自己的责任并且创造了值得自己骄傲的生活。

    承担责任是每一个成年人的必修课。如果你还没有学会承担责任，现在还不晚。记住，生活会为你提供许许多多的机会让你学会承担责任。

    Limitlessness，The final lesson you must learn is limitlessness，it is the sense that there are no boundaries to what you can become or do.You learn it when you know that your evolution is never-ending and your potential for growth reaches to infinity.

    You were born knowing your limitlessness.As you grew and became socialized in this world，however，you might have come to believe that there are boundaries that prevent you from reaching thehighest levels of spiritual，emotional，or mental evolution.However，boundaries exist only in your mind.When you are able to transcend them，you learn the lesson of limitlessness.

    When I was young，I had a teacher who understood the importance of this lesson.She reminded us every day that we could do anything we set our minds to，no matter how impossible it might seem or how strong the opposition is.It is my sincere hope that there is a teacher like Mrs.Carbone in every school around the world，so that our children can know the wonder and power they have within themselves and will strive to access it.

    In this world，we have countless people who have proven that a person can do whatever he or she strives to do.

    最后一课便是发挥无限潜能，你必须学会这一点。无论你想成为什么样的人或是做什么样的事情，并没有明确的界线来限制你。如果你相信自己的进步是永无止境的，自己的发展潜力也是无穷无尽的，那么你就学会了这一课。

    从来到人世的那天起，你就应该知道潜能是无限的。然而，随着你慢慢地成长，逐渐融入社会，你或许会怀疑有种种障碍在阻止你实现心中既定的精神、情感和思想上的最高目标。然而，这些障碍只存在于你的心里。如果你能超越这些障碍，那么你就学到了发挥无限潜能这一课。

    在我小时候，有一位老师（卡蓬夫人）深知这一课的重要性。她时时提醒我们：只要下定决心，我们就能做到任何事情——无论它们看起来是无法实现的，还是受到重重阻碍的。我真心希望世上每所学校都能有一位像卡蓬夫人一样的老师，这样，我们的孩子就能够懂得他们身上所拥有的非凡才能与力量，而且会努力实现自己心中的目标。

    在这个世界上，人们一次又一次地证明了这样一个道理：世上无难事，只怕有心人。（未完待续）