I know I sound like a consummate optimist, but I'm really not.
我知道我聽起來像一個完美的樂觀主義者，但我真的不是。
I lose perspective all the time. Sometimes everything just feels completely pointless.
我總是失去遠見。有時一切都感覺完全沒有意義。
I know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism.
我知道通過完美主義的視角生活的壓力。
And I know that I'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU.
我知道我在和一群完美主義者談話，因為你們今天在這裡從紐約大學畢業。
And so this may be hard for you to hear: In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn't deserve it, overthink, not
think at all,
因此，這對你們來說可能很難聽到。在你的生活中，你將不可避免地說錯話，相信錯誤的人，反應不足，反應過度，傷害那些不值得傷害的人，過度思考，欠缺思考，
self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right,
自我破壞，創造一個只有你的經驗存在的現實，破壞你自己和別人的完美時刻，否認任何錯誤行為，不採取步驟使其正確，
feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat.
感到非常內疚，讓內疚侵蝕你，跌入谷底，最終解決你造成的痛苦，嘗試下次做得更好，重複。
And I'm not gonna lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.
而且我不會撒謊，這些錯誤會使你失去一些東西。
I'm trying to tell you that losing things doesn't just mean losing. A lot of the time, when we lose things, we gain things too.
我想告訴你，失去東西並不只是意味著失去。很多時候，當我們失去東西的時候，我們也會得到東西。
Now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path.
現在你離開了學校的條條框框，規劃你自己的道路。
Every choice you make leads to the next choice which leads to the next, and I know it's hard to know sometimes which path to take.
你的每一個選擇都會導致下一個選擇，而下一個選擇又會帶你走向無窮的選擇，我知道有時很難知道該走哪條路。
There will be times in life when you need to stand up for yourself.
生活中會有一些時候，你需要為自己站出來。
Times when the right thing is actually to back down and apologize.
當正確的事情是退縮和道歉的時候。
Times when the right thing is to fight, times when the right thing is to turn and run.
當正確的事情是抗爭的時候，當正確的事情是轉身就跑的時候。
Times to hold on with all you have and times to let go with grace.
有的時候要全力以赴地堅持，有的時候要優雅地放手。
Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform.
有時，正確的做法是以進步和改革的名義拋棄舊的思想流派。
Sometimes the right thing to do is to listen to the wisdom of those who have come before
us.
有時，正確的做法是聽取前人的智慧。
How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments? You won't.
在這些關鍵時刻，你怎麼會知道什麼是正確的選擇？你不會的。
How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices? I won't.
我怎麼給這麼多人的人生選擇提供建議？我不會。
Scary news is: you' re on your own now.
我有一個可怕的消息：這一切也完全取決於你！
Cool news is: You' re on your own now.
我也有個好消息：這一切完全由你自己決定！！！