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不知我們到了80歲時是否也是這樣呢？

巴布狄倫今年五月年滿85歲，《紐約時報》日前詢問了狄倫在內，一些美國知名人物年過80的心得，緣由是川普也剛滿80歲。

以下是狄倫的體悟，句句是活過的滋味：

八十歲最棒的地方，是一路追著你跑的時鐘，終於追不上你了。你從人生可被掌控的謊言中，得到自由。你不再追逐遊行隊伍，像某個消逝國度裡年邁的國王。不再輕易地被塑造，不再急著成為某種人，也不會被自己做過的事糾纏。真正糾纏你的，是你終於明白：許多曾經以為無比重要的事，其實無足輕重。

八十歲最糟糕的地方，是你依然對許多事充滿興趣，但世界已不再徵詢你的意見。心裡蒼老的火苗，仍催促你去做這個、完成那個，身體卻說，我們已經做過了。再也沒有任何事能讓你驚訝，這聽來令人稱羨，實情並非如此，你喪失了自我蒙蔽的能力。人們看待你，不是認為你參透了什麼，就是失去了什麼，其實都不是。你看著生命一遍又一遍地重複自己。 

而八十歲最殘酷的真相是：當你終於看透了足以扭轉命運的道理，卻早已失去改變的時機。年輕時，你以為時間會向前流動。來到八十歲才明瞭，時間始終佇立在原地。移動的，是我們。

The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program. You’re not rushing to become anything and you’re not haunted by things that you did. You’re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.

The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t; it stands still. We’re the ones that move.

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