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在生命的早期，我们用仪式来标志每个阶段，像是生日、毕业典礼，但步入晚年后呢？在这个“思前想后”的冥想演讲中，Bob Stein提出了一个新的仪式：当你长大后，把自己的东西（及它们背后的故事）分享给大家，来反思自己过去的生活并打开通向未来的大门。
adj. 商业的
n. 商业广告
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- I grew up white, secular and middle class in 1950s America.
- 我出生于五十年代美国的一个传统的白人中产阶级家庭里。
- That meant watching fireworks on the Fourth of July,
- 这意味着，七月四号（独立日）要看烟花，
- trick-or-treating on Halloween and putting presents under a tree at Christmas.
- 在万圣节不给糖就捣乱，以及圣诞节时会把礼物放在树下。
- But by the time those traditions got to me, they were hollow, commercial enterprises, which just left me feeling empty.
- 到了我生活的年代时，这些传统变成了空洞的商业之事，让我感到空虚。
- So from a relatively young age, I found myself looking to fill an existential hole, to connect with something bigger than myself.
- 所以从年轻的时候，我就开始寻找方法填补这个存在了的空洞，以期与更伟大的事物相连。
- There hadn't been a bar mitzvah in my family in over a century, so I thought I'd take a shot at that
- 一个多世纪以来，我家没有举办过一场（犹太）成人礼，所以我想我应该试试看。
- only to be devastated when my one encounter with the rabbi, a really tall, godlike figure with flowing white hair,
- 但和拉比（犹太教教义者）的相遇仍带来了毁灭性的打击，他很高，像神灵一样，有一头飘逸的白发，
- consisted of him asking me for my middle name so we could fill out a form. Yep, that was it.
- 相遇时他询问我的中间名是什么，以填在表格上。是的，就是这样。
- So I got the fountain pen, but I didn't get the sense of belonging and confidence I was searching for.
- 我拿起了那只笔，但并未获得我一直在寻找的归属感和信心。
- Many years later, I couldn't bear the thought of my son turning 13 without some kind of rite of passage.
- 多年后，我无法容忍我的孩子将满13岁却没有举行任何仪式。
- So I came up with the idea of a 13th birthday trip, and I offered to take Murphy anywhere in the world that had meaning for him.
- 所以我想出了这个主意--十三岁生日之旅。我提出带Murphy去这个世界上任何一个对他有意义的地方。
- A budding young naturalist who loved turtles, he immediately settled on the Galapagos.
- 作为一个崭露头角喜欢乌龟的年轻博物学家，他毫不犹豫地选择了加拉帕戈斯群岛。
- And when my daughter, Katie, turned 13, she and I spent two weeks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon,
- 当我的女儿Katie满13岁时，我们一起在大峡谷底部度过了两周，
- where Katie learned for the first time that she was powerful and brave.
- 正是在那儿，Katie第一次意识到了自己的强大与勇敢。
- Since then, my partner, Ashton, and lots of our friends and relatives have taken their kids on 13th birthday trips,
- 在这之后，我的另一半Ashton还有很多亲朋都带着他们的小孩儿开启了十三岁生日之旅，
- with everyone finding it transformative for both the child and the parent.
- 无论是大人还是小孩，每个人都能看到它带来的改变。
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