晨读英语美文60篇(含lrc字幕)Write Your Own Life
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[00:00.00]Write Your Own Life
[00:04.42]Suppose someone gave you a pen—a sealed, solid-colored pen.
[00:09.77]You couldn’t see how much ink it had.
[00:12.41]It might run dry after the first few tentative words
[00:16.02]or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several)
[00:21.26]that would last forever
[00:22.70]and make a difference in the scheme of things.
[00:24.87]You don’t know before you begin.
[00:27.62]Under the rules of the game, you really never know.
[00:31.11]You have to take a chance!
[00:33.20]Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything.
[00:37.46]Instead of picking up and using the pen,
[00:40.50]you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer
[00:43.26]where it will dry up, unused.
[00:45.87]But if you do decide to use it,
[00:48.18]what would you do with it?
[00:49.69]How would you play the game?
[00:51.56]Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word?
[00:55.93]Would your plans be so extensive
[00:58.57]that you never even got to the writing?
[01:00.74]Or would you take the pen in hand,
[01:04.04]plunge right in and just do it,
[01:06.43]struggling to keep up with the twists and turns
[01:09.82]of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?
[01:13.33]Would you write cautiously and carefully,
[01:16.05]as if the pen might run dry the next moment,
[01:19.02]or would you pretend or believe
[01:21.30](or pretend to believe)
[01:22.84]that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?
[01:26.55]And of what would you write:
[01:29.30]Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery?
[01:32.90]Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
[01:36.84]Would you write to please just yourself?
[01:39.92]Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?
[01:44.62]Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold?
[01:49.75]Fancy with a flourish or plain?
[01:52.26]Would you even write?
[01:54.34]Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.
[01:57.95]Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?
[02:01.76]Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all,
[02:06.80]even if they were there?
[02:08.23]Or are they?
[02:09.66]There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there?
[02:12.28]Now, suppose someone gave you a life...