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Yeah, I know. I have this memory from my childhood I realized recently never happened. -What?
是啊，我知道，我有一段童年的回忆，但是我最近意识到，这段回忆其实从未发生过。-是什么？
Well, when I was 8 or 9, my mom was so paranoid when I was walking home from my piano lesson at night.
这个，当我八九岁的时候，我妈妈很担心我晚上下了钢琴课后，一个人走回家会出事。
She would always warn me about dirty old men giving me candies and then showing me their pee penis.
她总是让我当心色老头给我糖果，然后给我看他们的鸡鸡。
She was so obsessed with it that, later in life, you know, I had this image in my head that this really happened.
她老是这么说，然后后来，你懂吗，那个画面就留在我脑子里了，我就真觉得那事曾经发生过。
To the point that I even associated sex with that walk home.
关键是我甚至把做爱和走回家联系到一起了。
I mean, and sometimes, even now, when I'm...When I'm having sex, I see myself walking down that street.
我是说，有时候，甚至是现在，当我...当我做爱的时候，我都好像看见我自己在那条街上走。
I swear! It's so weird, right?
我发誓！非常奇怪，对吧？
Well, is that street nearby? I mean, to change it!
呃，那条街离这近吗？我是说，把你那段回忆改变一下！
No. Very far. Did you ever keep a journal when you were a kid?
不行。非常远。你小的时候记日记吗？
Hmm, yeah. On and off, I guess.
嗯，算是吧，有时记。
It's funny, I read one of mine from '83 the other day. -Yeah?
很有意思的是，我有天读了... 我83年的一本日记。-怎么了？
And what really surprised me is that I was dealing with life the same way I am now.
让我非常惊奇的是，我那时的人生观和现在一样。
I was much more hopeful and naive. But the core, and the way I was feeling things, is exactly the same.
当然我那时更充满希望，更天真单纯。但我的核心本质，和对事情的感觉是完全一样的。
It made me realize I haven't changed much at all.
这让我意识到我其实没怎么变。
Yeah. I don't think anybody does.
你说得对，可不是每个人都能意识到的。
And people don't want to admit it, but it's like we just...we have these innate set points.
尽管人们都不愿意承认，但就像我们... 我们个性的许多方面都是天生的。
You know, it's like to say...nothing much that happens to us changes our disposition.
你懂吧，就像是说...很少有后天发生的事能改变我们的性情。
Really, you believe that?
你是这么想的？
I think so. I read this study where they followed people who'd won the lottery and people who'd become paraplegic, right.
是的。我曾经看过一份研究报告，它追踪那些赢了彩票的人以及截瘫的人。
You'd think that, you know, one extreme is gonna make you euphoric and the other suicidal.
你会认为前一件事能让你欣喜若狂，后一件则让你简直想自杀。
But the study shows that, after about six months, right. As soon as people got used to their new situation, they were more or less the same. -The same?
但是研究却表明，大概六个月之后。只要人们习惯了他们的新处境，他们就和以前差不多一样了。-一样？
Well, yeah. Like, if they were basically an optimistic, jovial person, they're now an optimistic, jovial person in a wheelchair.
嗯，对。如果他们本质上是乐观开朗的人，即使他们现在坐在了轮椅上，他们还是乐天派。
If they're a petty, miserable asshole, they're a petty, miserable asshole with a new Cadillac, a house and a boat.
如果他们是小肚鸡肠、坏脾气的笨家伙，就算他们有了卡迪拉克轿车、大别墅、 游艇，他们还是小肚鸡肠、坏脾气的笨蛋。
So you'll be forever depressed no matter what great things happen in your life?
就是说，哪怕人生中有多好的事情发生，你还是会这样郁闷？
Definitely! -Great.
没错！-好吧。
No, come on, are you depressed now?
不会啦，拜托。你现在郁闷吗？
No, no, I'm not depressed.
不，不，我不郁闷。
