Today’s Drifting Thoughts: Chances

Originally posted as my reply to a post, but I would love to share this with everybody:

[:: quote from a friend ::]

今天我可能错过了一生中一次重要的机会。
 回头想想，我曾经错过很多次机会，并不是我不在意，而是没有把握好，没有珍惜，或者说是没有来得及把握，它已经从身边悄悄溜

这令我又想起了那句经典的台词：
 曾经有一次重要的机会放在我的面前，我没有珍惜，等我失去的时候我才后悔莫及，人世间最痛苦的事莫过于此。如果上天能够给我一个再来一次的机会，我会对那次机会说：我要。如果非要在这次机会上加上一个期限，我希望是…再多一天！

同样的机会不会出现第二次，我应该怎样才能把握好下一次，才不会让它在身边悄悄走过呢

Translation:

Today I might have missed one of the most important chance in life. Looking back, I had missed a lot of chances in the past, but it’s not that I didn’t mind at all, but it’s that I never grasp these chances well, never treasured them; or should I say that by the time I wanted to grab it, the chance has already slipped away.

This reminds me of these classic words again: There was a time that an important chance is being placed in front of me, I never treasure it, until the time when I missed it I started to regret about it, that’s the greatest pain in life. If God were to give me another chance, I’ll tell that chance: I want it/you. If this chance has to have an extention of expiration, my wish is… Just one more day.

The same chance will not appear twice, what should I do so that I can grab it well the next, so that it doesn’t slip from me again?

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机会…何谓机会？机会乃是人的希望而生，也由绝望而存。若是把一个未来的可能性看成是一个真实，它是机会；同样当我们把一个过去的选择看成是一个真实的可能性，它也是叫做机会。

它们的不同点在哪里呢？或许最明显的答案是就是一个还可能会发生，一个是不可能会发生。但是，他们独特的地方…不是一个不同点，而是一个共同点：它们…只是一个幻像。他们虽有它的真实性，但是，他们现在都不是事实：一个已经发生了，一个还没到来。

唯一的真实：就是现在，唯一的机会：就是把握现在。这就是“活在当下”的精髓：一个没有机会存在，但是充满了活跃的可能性的人生！

你…有没有把握着现在呢…？

Translation:

Chance… what is chance? A chance is born from our own hopes, and it’s also survived with our regrets as well. When we see a future possibility as a possible reality: then it’s a chance; Same goes to the fact that when we see a past decision as a possible, present reality: that is also called a chance.

What’s the difference between them? Maybe the most obvious answer is that this chance can be either a possibility, and another is an impossibility. But what makes them special… is not their differences, but their similarities: They… are only a maya. They do have their points of being real, but they aren’t real now: One has been passed, the other haven’t arrived.

The only reality is now, the only chance is to grasp what you have today. This is the essense of “Living today to the fullest”: There’s no chances exists, but a life is full of lively possibilities!

Have you… grasp what you have today…?