坚持到底

Try and Try Hard
来源: Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. Go all the way.
It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision, mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.


查尔斯·布可夫斯基(Charles Bukowski),一位非常高产的诗人、作家，总计出版了110本书。因其作品关注社会底层人民生活，被誉为“贫民窟的桂冠诗人”。


如果你正在做，就将其进行到底。否则，就不要开始。如果你正在做，就坚持到底。这可能意味着你会失去你的女朋友，你的妻子，你的亲戚，你的工作甚至是你的心。不管怎么样，坚持下去。这可能意味着你三四天无法吃上一顿可口的饭。这也许会受冻于公园的长凳上。这或许会让你遇上监狱，面对嘲笑，接受徒劳无功，甚至是最可怕的孤独。但是，孤独是一份礼物，是其他所有人对你耐力的考验，看看你多大程度上想尝试它。尽管会遭到拒绝，可能有着最后的可能性，你仍然会去做。因为开始尝试，坚持下去好过你所能想象到的一切。如果你正在做，就将其进行到底。没有别的感情会像坚持带给你的这般感觉了。感触：“坚持”与“自律”有着放不开的关系，坚持30天会让你在不知不觉中得以蜕变，更何况坚持一辈子呢？将要做的事情自律起来，坚持下去，成为一种习惯，会有着意外的惊喜。