双语美文：你有活成自己想要的样子吗？（附音频）

他毕业几年了。

He has graduated for several years.

每天在外面晒得泛油光，骑着自己的小电驴，带着客户满城跑。

Every day, I get oily outside, ride my own electric donkey, and run around the city with customers.

他发现，自己绝少有节假日，总是加班到周末，熬夜所换来的，不过一句“算了，算了吧”。

He found that he rarely had holidays. He always worked overtime until the weekend and stayed up late in exchange for a sentence of "Forget it, forget it".

他曾设想，先入行，再扎根，读个在职研究生，三五年内当公司高管。可年近三十，同龄的发小都早已有房有车有存款，而他呢，依旧穷酸样儿。

He had envisioned that he would enter the industry first, then take root, and become an on-the-job graduate student, and become a company executive in three or five years. But in his late thirties, the same age of Haixiao had already owned a house, a car and a deposit, while he was still poor.

怀孕的妻，微薄的工资，留不住的城市。一个人养一家子，没有诗，更遑论远方。

A pregnant wife, a meager salary, and a city that can't stay. A man raises a family without poetry, let alone in the distance.

她单身很久了。

She has been single for a long time.

爱情里，她是怯懦的小兽，总在对方靠近之时，吓得落荒而逃。

In love, she is a cowardly little animal. She always runs away when the other party approaches

“我的脸太圆腿太粗，他不会喜欢那样的我。”在她眼里，身材是通行证，颜值是易耗品。而她无法面对相貌平平的事实，捶胸叹气。

"My face is too round and my legs are too thick. He won't like me like that." In her eyes, body is a pass, and beauty is a consumable. But she could not face the fact that she was plain and sighed.

变瘦，变美，变闲，变有钱…这类全能幻想，就像自带柔光的滤镜，晃得她睁不开眼。

Thin, beautiful, idle, rich... Such omnipotent fantasies are like filters with soft light, which make her blind.

只可惜，生活有太多求而不得。也许是父母之命，也许是经济阻力，也许是恋人期许，把你捆缚在原地。

Unfortunately, there are too many demands in life. Maybe it is the order of parents, maybe it is the economic resistance, maybe it is the expectation of lovers, which binds you in place.

不是每个人，都能活成自己想要的样子。

Not everyone can live as they want.

你我本来就是普通人啊。

You and I are ordinary people.

拔尖的，天赋高的，含金汤勺的，只有那么一小撮。没活成想象中的样子，是常态。

There are only a small number of top, talented and golden ones. It's normal that we didn't live as we expected.

怕只怕，你一厢情愿地寄居在“全能幻想”里，妄想用最短的时间、最高的效率，换来最佳的反馈和认同。

I'm afraid that you are living in the "omnipotent fantasy" with wishful thinking, and you want to get the best feedback and recognition with the shortest time and the highest efficiency.