When I was a kid, I thought I would grow up to be an actress. I thought I would live in New York City, in a high-rise apartment building, with my husband and family of, oh, five or six kids. I thought I'd live an urban, impossibly sophisticated1 life. Money would be no object. Perhaps there would be a private plane. (I should mention here that these fantasies were firmly rooted in the 1980's.) Well, I grew up and left the city for the country. I married and had one child -- an only child, just like I had been. My husband and I work hard to make ends meet. But my life - my rich, imperfect, complicated, contented2 life -- is the one I've built for myself. It's an honest life. It's a life of integrity3. It's a life I love. But to have it, I had to lose my fantasy straight out of the pages of a magazine of what it was that I thought I wanted - of who I thought I was. I was underselling myself, it turned out.
To love, to really live is to become willing to lose people, places, things, dreams, even to lose versions of ourselves that no longer serve us. And in place of what is lost, something new emerges4. It may not be what we imagined. But it is beautiful and it is ours.
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1 sophisticated
adj.老練的，精密的，尖端的，高雅的
參考例句：
She has become very sophisticated since she went to live in London.移居倫敦后她變得世故多了。 This is a very sophisticated machine.這是一臺非常精密的機(jī)器。
2 contented
adj.滿意的，安心的，知足的
參考例句：
He won't be contented until he's upset everyone in the office.不把辦公室里的每個人弄得心煩意亂他就不會滿足。 The people are making a good living and are contented,each in his station.人民安居樂業(yè)。
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3 integrity
n.正直，誠實(shí)，誠懇，完整，完全，完善
參考例句：
The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.該國在為保持領(lǐng)土的完整而進(jìn)行斗爭。 He is a man of the highest integrity.他是個極其正直的人。
4 emerges
v.出現(xiàn)( emerge的第三人稱單數(shù) )；露頭；形成；事實(shí)
參考例句：
Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society. 語言是隨著社會的產(chǎn)生而產(chǎn)生，隨著社會的發(fā)展而發(fā)展的。 來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》 The man emerges from water. 那個人露出水面。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
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