如果只剩三个月

类别：成长

面对生命仅剩三个月的假设，作者顿悟最珍贵的是日常亲情，决定不再等待立刻行动。

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On a long flight, I read a question in a magazine. 在一趟长途航班上，我看到杂志里提了一个问题。

If you had three months to live, what would you do? 如果你的生命只剩下三个月，你会做什么？

I closed my eyes and waited for the big answers. 我闭上眼睛，等着脑海里蹦出那些轰轰烈烈的答案。

Travel the world. 去环游世界。

Jump out of a plane. 去体验跳伞。

None of them came. 但这些一个都没出现。

Here's what came instead. 浮现在我心头的，反而是这些事：

I'd go home and eat my mother's cooking, 我想回家，吃妈妈做的饭，

at the small table with the plastic cover. 就在那张铺着塑料布的小桌子旁。

I'd call my brother, 我想给我哥打个电话，

the one I haven't really talked to since the argument. 自从那次吵架后，我们就没正经说过话了。

I'd sit with my oldest friend 我想和认识最久的老朋友坐坐，

and say the things I usually turn into jokes. 把那些平时总当成玩笑糊弄过去的心里话，认真说出来。

That was the whole list. 我想做的事，就只有这些了。

And then the obvious thing hit me, somewhere over the ocean. 然后，飞机飞在大洋上空的某一刻，一个明摆着的道理突然击中了我。

I don't have three months. 我的生命又不是只剩三个月。

I probably have forty years. 我大概还有四十年的时间。

So why am I waiting? 那我到底还在等什么？

When we landed, before I even stood up, I called my brother. 飞机落地后，我甚至还没站起身，就拨通了我哥的电话。