「我祝你不幸並痛苦」：最高院大法官在兒子畢業典禮上發言

早上起來，看到美國最高法院首席大法官羅伯茨(John Robert)在兒子的初中畢業典禮上的發言，在結尾處送上了與大部分畢業典禮相反的祝福。

在這裡翻譯一下：

"通常到這裡畢業典禮的演講嘉賓都會祝你們好運並送上祝福。我不會這樣做，接下來我會告訴你為什麼。」

「在未來的很多年中，時不時地，我祝福你被不公正地對待，因而你會知道公正的價值。我祝福你會遭受背叛，因為它會讓你感受到忠誠的重要性。」

「很抱歉，但我會祝福你時不時地感到孤獨，因而你不會把朋友當作理所當然。」

「我祝福你有時會有壞運氣，因而你會意識到概率和運氣在人生中扮演的角色，並且理解你的成功並不完全是你應得的，而其他人的失敗也並不完全是他們所應得的。」

「而當你失敗的時候，時不時地，我希望你的對手會因為你的失敗而幸災樂禍，這會讓你意識到有風度的競爭精神的重要性。」

「我祝福你會被忽視，因而你會意識到傾聽他人的重要性。」

「我祝福你遭受剛剛好的痛苦，能讓你學會同理心。」

「無論我是否祝福你這些，它們都會發生。而你是否從中獲益，取決於你是否能從你的不幸中參透它們想要傳遞給你的信息。」

這應該是個人近年來看到的最打動人的畢業典禮結尾。

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Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I』ll tell you why.

From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.

I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.

Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don』t take friends for granted.

I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.

And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.

I hope you』ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.

Whether I wish these things or not, they』re going to happen.

And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.

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