chapter Ⅳ 接过墨客的衣钵摇旗呐喊（14）

    我不记得什么时候将我学古典文学的这事告诉了父母，他们可能是在我毕业典礼那一天才发现的。我想，在全世界的所有学科中，他们也许认为，不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的学科了，根本无法换来一间独立宽敞的卫生间。

    i cannot remember telling my parents that i  classics; they might raduation day. of all the subjects on this planet, i think they y  the keys to an executive bathroom.

    我想澄清一下：我不会因为父母的观点，而责怪他们。责怪父母给你指错方向是有一个截止期的。当你成长到可以控制自我方向的时候，你就要自己承担责任了。尤其是，我不会因为父母希望我不要过穷日子，而指责他们。他们亲身经历过贫穷，我后来也一度很穷，所以在这点上我完全赞同他们的观点。贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力，有时还有绝望，它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。

    i  your parents for steering you in the  direction; the moment you are old enough to take the  that i ree  experience. poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your o on e e, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university,  in the coffee bar  stories, and far too little time at lectures, i had a knack for passing exnations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.

    现在，我不想愚蠢地假设，因为你们年轻、有天分，并且受过良好的教育，就从来不懂得艰难或心碎的时刻。才华和智慧，从来不会使人对命运的变化无常有所准备。我也不会假设大家坐在这里冷静地满足于自身的优越感。

    noh to suppose that because you are young, gifted and ence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates, and i do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.

    相反，你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，意味着你们并不很了解失败。你们也许极其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失败。说实话，你们眼中的失败，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，毕竟你们在学业上已经达到很高的高度了。

    horaduating from harvard suggests that you are not very ht be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person’s idea of success, so high have you already floer to give you a set of criteria if you let it. so i think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, i had failed on an epic scale. an exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and i  homeless. the fears my parents had had for me, and that i had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, i gest failure i knew.</p>

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