有人说青春是终将逝去的。但事实上，青春是被挥霍殆尽的。你在浪费自己的青春吗？那么当你年老时，你可能会后悔下面这十件事：

 

 

当你老了，你会后悔的十件事

 

 

Traveling becomes infinitely harder the older you get, especially if you have a family and need to pay the way for three-plus people instead of just yourself.

 

随着年龄的增长，旅行变得越来越不容易，当你拥有一个家庭之后你不能只考虑自己，你需要为家里至少三口人谋生计，这个时候旅行就更难上加难了。

 

 

You’ll kick yourself when you realize you took three years of language in high school and remember none of it.

 

中学曾花费了三年时间学习外语，而你却什么都没记住。每当想起这一点，你都会想踹自己两脚。

 

 

No one who ever gets out of a bad relationship looks back without wishing they made the move sooner.

 

每一个走出一段槽糕的感情的人在回顾往事的时候，都后悔自己为什么没有早点摆脱旧情。

 

 

Look, you gotta pay the bills. But if you don’t make a plan to improve your situation, you might wake up one day having spent 40 years in hell.

 

是的，你需要支付生活中的各种账单。但是如果你不为改善自己的现状而制定计划的话，有可能某一天起床的时候你已经在地狱里呆了40年。

 

 

It’s not just that your grades play a role in determining where you end up in life. Eventually you’ll realize how neat it was to get to spend all day learning, and wish you’d paid more attention.

 

你的分数不仅仅会决定你的人生走向，而且最后你将会意识到，一整天时间专心学习是件多么纯粹的事！那时候你就会后悔自己在学习上没有更用心。

 

 

Too many of us spend our youth unhappy with the way we look, but the reality is, that’s when we’re our most beautiful.

 

太多的人把青春荒废在不满意自己的外表上，但事实是，你不满的那段时光恰恰是你最美丽的时候。

 

 

I had big dreams of becoming a nurse. I even signed up for the classes, but then…

 

我梦想成为一名护士，并且我曾经报名参加培训课程，但然后…… 就没有然后了。

 

 

In 20 years you won’t give a damn about any of those people you once worried so much about.

 

有些人的看法曾经使你很忧虑，但20年后你将完全不在乎那些对你评头论足的人。

 

 

As Tom Petty sang, Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

 

如汤姆·佩蒂歌曲里唱的那样，大部分我担忧的事情从来都没发生过。

 

 

It can be hard to see in the beginning, but eventually it becomes clear that every moment on this earth — from the mundane to the amazing — is a gift that we’re all so incredibly lucky to share.

 

年轻的时候可能很难明白，但总有一天你会意识到，你活在世上的每一分钟都弥足珍贵。无论平凡还是精彩，这些时光都是上天赐予我们的礼物，我们能如此幸运地分享这些美妙的时刻，应当怀抱感恩之心。