我希望你遭遇不公——这位父亲居然在儿子毕业典礼上如此说

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今年6月初，美国最高法院首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨（John Roberts）来到新罕布什尔州的卡迪根山中学（Cardigan Mountain School），参加儿子的初中毕业典礼，并发表演讲。

这篇演讲当时并没有引起轰动，但近日《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post）把其中的金句挖掘了出来，竟引发美国媒体和社交网络的疯狂转发。

From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.
我希望在未来岁月中，你能时不时地遭遇不公，唯有如此，你才能懂得公正的价值。

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I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.
我希望你尝到背叛的滋味，这样你才能领悟到忠诚之重要。

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Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted.
抱歉，我还希望你们时常感到孤独，唯有如此，你才不会视朋友为理所当然。

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I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
我祝你们偶尔运气不佳，这样你才会意识到机遇在人生中扮演的角色，从而明白你的成功并非天经地义，而他人的失败也不是命中注定。

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And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.
当你偶尔失败时，我愿你的对手时不时地会幸灾乐祸。这样你才能懂得互相尊重的竞技精神的重要。

I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others.
我希望你被人无视，唯有如此，你才懂得倾听他人有多重要。

And I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.

我祝你感受足够的痛楚来学会同情。

约翰·罗伯茨还评论了一下演讲嘉宾们爱对毕业生说的一句话： "做自己""Being yourself"----- Unless you are perfect, it does not mean don’t make any changes. 除非你完美无瑕，那么这句话绝不意味着不去改变自己。

他鼓励毕业生们思考自己想成为什么样的人，这样才能真正地“做自己”。

他引用苏格拉底的话说：
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
未经自省的人生没有意义。