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    这是一个令人惊讶的说法，它已被我们生命中的每一天无数次地加以了证实。这句话部分地说明了我们与外部世界的生活有着非常紧密的关联，事实上，只要我们的生命存在，就得感受他人的生命。

但哈佛大学的2008级的毕业生们，你们中到底有多少人愿意去感受其他人的生命呢？你们的智力、你们辛勤工作的能力、你们已获得与受到的教育，赋予了你们独特的地位和独特的责任。即便你们的国籍把你与其他国籍的人分开了，但你们中的绝大部份依然属于这个整体的超级世界。你们表决的方式，你们生活的方式，你们抗议的方式，你们给你们政府施加的压力，其具有的影响已远远地超出了你们的国界。这既是你们的权利，也是你们的责任。

    如果你们能设法利用你们的社会地位和影响力，去代那些被剥夺了发言权的人发出他们的声音；如果你们的选择不仅认同有权的强势群体，也认同无权的弱势群体；如果你们能借着自身的能力去为那些远不如你的生活的人设身处地地好好想一想，那么，你们的存在，不仅能成为养育你们的家庭的骄傲，也能成为无数因你们的帮助而使自己日常生活有好的改变的人的骄傲。我们不需要借助魔法来改变这个世界，我们已拥有了改变这个世界所需要的内在力量：即能够把世界想象成更好图景的那种丰富的想象力量。

到此，我的演讲也接近尾声了。对你们，我有最后一点提醒，它是我从21岁毕业开始就一直在思考的。毕业时坐在我身边的朋友后来成为了我终生的朋友。他们成为了我孩子的教养父母，也成为了在我遭遇困境时的最可求助的人；他们是我非常友善的朋友，不会为了我在死亡复活节那天用他们名字而控告我。在我们的毕业的时候，一种特别的爱把我们紧紧地联系在了一起，我们沉浸在这段永不能重现的共同时光里；当然，将来如果我们中的某个人成为国家首相，我们也沉浸于能拥有极其有价值的毕业留影相片的兴奋中。

所以，今天我能给你们的祝福，是最希望你们能珍爱同学之间的友情。到了明天，在我退出我的职业生涯后，我希望即使你们不记得我说过的任何一个字，但能记住塞尼卡（Seneca，译者注：这个名字通常被翻译为塞尼卡，塞涅卡，赛内卡，塞内加，赛奈卡。他是古罗马斯多葛[Stoic]学派的政治家、哲学家和作家。生卒年为公元前4?-公元65。），并记住这个古罗马哲学家说过的最具古老智慧的那句话：

“生活就如同故事演绎一样：要紧的不是在于它的长度，而是在于它的质量，这正是我们讨论问题的关键。”

愿快乐的生活永远伴随着你们。

谢谢大家。

 

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

 

Text as prepared follows.

Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008

 

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.

The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve experienced at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and fool myself into believing I am at the world’s best-educated Harry Potter convention.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.  

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement. 

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that has expired between that day and this.  

I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.  

These might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.  

Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.  

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.  

They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. 

I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. 

I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.  

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