Passage 16 Write Your Own LifeSuppose someone gave you a pen—a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance! Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game? Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you? Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly? You’re listening to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I’m Faith. Now, suppose someone gave you a life. . . 谱写生命的乐章 假如有人送你一支笔，一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔. 你看不出里面究竟有多少墨水。或许在你试探性地写上几个字后它就会干枯，或许足够用来创作一部影响深远的不朽巨著(或是几部)。而这些，在动笔前，都是无法得知的。 在这个游戏规则下，你真的永远不会预知结果。你只能去碰运气！事实上，这个游戏里没有规则指定你必须要做什么。相反，你甚至可以根本不去动用这支笔，把它扔在书架上或是抽屉里让它的墨水干枯。 但是，如果你决定要用它的话，你会用它来做什么呢？你将怎样来进行这个游戏呢? 你会在写字之前，老是计划来计划去吗？你会不会由于计划过于宏大而来不及动笔呢? 或者你只是手里拿着笔，一头扎进去写，不停地写，艰难地随着文字汹涌的浪涛而随波逐流呢？ 你会小心谨慎地写字，好像这支笔在下个时刻就可能会干枯；还是装作相信（或装作相信）这支笔能够永远写下去而信手写来呢？ 您正在收听 Faith 轻松电台，我是 Faith。现在，假如有人给予你一支生命的笔……
