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And after a while, he found himself homeless,
过了一段时间后，他变得无家可归
literally living under a tree, cold, it was the winter, penniless, didn't have any money and without any friends.
住在一棵树下面，寒冷难耐，当时是冬天，身无分文，没有一分钱，也没有朋友
Absolutely miserable. And somehow for some reason, he said OK.
悲惨极了，然而出于某种原因，他说，好吧
He was in this depression for a few weeks and he said, "well, let me try something."
他抑郁了几周时间，然后他说，"我不如试试"
Took out a piece of paper and on this piece of paper, simply wrote everything for which he was grateful.
拿出一张纸，在这张纸上，写下让他感激的一切
So the kind of things he wrote there, as he told me: Beethoven's fifth- he loves music.
他写下来的东西包括，他说：有贝多芬第五交响曲，他酷爱音乐
He wrote his parents, who were in Israel.
他写下在以色列的父母
He wrote vanilla icecream, which until today is his favorite.
他写下香草冰淇淋，至今仍是他的最爱
He thought about his friends back home.
他想到家乡的朋友们
All the things, he made a long list of all the things in the world for which he is grateful for.
所有这些事，他写了长长的一个名单，写下世上让他感激的事物
And he credits this experience as the turning point in his life.
他将那次经历视为他人生的转折点
Why? Because he started to focus on something else.
为什么？因为他开始专注于别的事物
Not just on the impossibilities, on the terrible, but on the possibilities, the wonderful.
不再对无奈可悲的处境耽耽于怀，而是专注于各种可能和美好的事物
Do the experi... And by the way, he has this- he's now 55 years old.
大家也来试试……随便说一句，他现在55岁了
He has this piece of paper with him, crumbled but still there, in his wallet, reminding him that there is so much, so so many wonderful things in the world.
仍随身携带这张纸，虽已褶皱，但仍装在他的钱包里，提醒他世上有太多美好的事物
Just think about the kind of life that we are leading.
想想我们所过的生活
