时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:美丽英文


英语课

If I Died Today


"If I died today, how would I feel about my life?"Life is fragile.


A good friend of mine called me today and shared that his girlfriend's brother passed away last night. He was married, with two young children. He died of a massive heart attack in the middle of the night. And he was only 44 years old.


"It could never happen to me," we think. "I'm too young to die." But how young is "too young to die?"


We really don't know how many days or years we will live. An accident, such as by plane, automobile 1, or other mishap 2 could claim our life. Or perhaps, an unusual illness. Or a vital organ could fail.


So what would we say, if our life were to end today? Would we be satisfied? Would we know that we had lived our life fully 3, on purpose? Could we feel we "did it right?"


It is a hard question to answer. I recently had a cousin pass away from cancer. I don't know how she would have answered this question. But I'm 99% positive she wasn't "ready" to go. Not with two little ones and a loving husband and so much life ahead of her (she was 35 years old).


If we live our life completely every day, we still may not be thrilled with the thought of death. However, death is really only a passing from one physical body to our more complete spiritual one (not that our spirit isn't the core essence of who we are now).


Are there things we can be doing better? Are there people we can love better? Can we live our aspirations 4, today? If we know the answer, what are we waiting for to make us do it? Death? Life is fragile. Now is the time to live fully and bless those friends and family who grace us with their love.



1 automobile
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
2 mishap
n.不幸的事,不幸;灾祸
  • I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了,你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
  • We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 aspirations
强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音
  • I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
  • The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。
学英语单词
abhinayas
acoustic recognition input
Adenocaulon himalaicum
Al-Si alloy
alternative futures
altitude air valve
amerigo vespuccis
aquametry apparatus
auxiliary capacitor
baby dick
be like sisters
Benedict's solution/Benedict's reagent
blahblahs
brainers
builder's cleavage
business departments
carbonaceous fuel
CDP-diacylglycerol
ceepryn
centrifugal-force tachometer
chicken pot pie
cinchonometry
closed clause
conioscinella intrita
convection mass transfer
cryature
dialytic
dithorium
Dougga
drafting standard
drummondia clavellata hook.
duples
E,e
electric steel sheets and strips
engine starting system
equatorial cleavage
equipotential region
external superheater
Fijian
firebuttons
flexible service
flip a switch
Formigny
full screen
Ganglia spinalia
gangs up on
genus hygrotramas
grandparent
hansels
Hutchinson-Gilford disease
in for perpetuity
in-plant test
Isaac Singer
james abbott mcneill whistlers
jigglings
kliegs
lochlan
low-frequency power amplifier
lower confidence limit
maser preamplifier
May wines
Mealy machines
Monactinellida
myotrophy
obligation fund
paradoxicality
pledge card
poor-me-one
portable hoisting jacks
protection addressing
pseudoplastics
put out of service
radiality
railway ticket
reserved page
risk free rate
self-indulgent
shallow footing
skew roller table
sloping control panel
spunbonded
stain etch
subgenital plate
swimmies
synagogue
TAREX
thermodynamic branch
thin-sheet metal
thirty-something
trendscriber
trichromatic colorimeter
Truphylline
two-phase
unclimactic
viallis
Waldstein, Albrecht von
Windows Task Manager
wire sonde
workhead transformator
yavuz
yielding arch