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
-valent
a Dutch auction
absorber rod guide box
air incorporation
altered bill of lading
analog commputer
argon oxygen decarburizing furnace
avga
best obtainable price
bias crosstalk
boreoeutherians
bracingness
catalyst particle
centralgin
chemung r.
circular flat-plate
continuous threading
current-limit fuse
dam type pouring ladle
deoxy-adenosine-triphosphate
disbosoming
drawing error
economizer hopper
egg weight
Elder-Ray Index
engineers brake valve
enhardens
enotecas
Everitt's salt
final closing of hatches
fracturing plane
heize
high pressure steam sterilizer
hyperchlorhydria
hypersecrecy
input pin
integration proceure
intramastoid
Jeremoabo
Judaisation
land use structure
loss compensator
love juices
makulu
Masugi nephritis
mathematical parameter
McKissock
Miānwāl
Monguno
morbulent
Mowrystown
MTW
muscle hypertrophy
nidifications
numerical emulation
oil refiner
optical confinement
outselling
phrynine poisoning
plant expansion fund
polystele
postbaccalaureate
Pradoo
pushed for
RDBMS - relational database management system
recharacterize
reencountered
reintroducer
revillon
rotary slitting line
saturation tesing
schizogonic
seavey
secondary limestone
self-admirations
smoothing by free hand
snog-tastic
soil conservation benefit
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin
sovereign fire
sterilized cotton ball
stomatotomy
straining
stunty
terminals on distributing board
thickness measurement with laser
thrust plate
toothed bit
town book
tray ring
trick knee
twisted enclosure
two-base range finder
volumetric measuring device
wash season
water vapour permeability coefficient
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whimperer
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winching
workplace spirituality
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