时间也是一种幻觉 The Time Too is an Illusory Perception

你或许还是不大理解这种说法，因为你可能会觉得，人与浪花不可能是同一种东西，浪花很快就会消失，但人的一生却要漫长得多。

You may still not understand this explanation, because you might feel that humans and ocean spray cannot be the same thing, that ocean sprays disappears very quickly, while human life lasts a lot longer.

事实上，时间跟万事万物一样，也是虚幻无常的。

In fact, time and the myriad things and events are the same – they are all empty and illusory and impermanent.

我们举个简单的例子，你跟心爱的人在一起的时候，总觉得时间过得很快，但是当你跟一个自己非常讨厌的人在一起时，却总是觉得度日如年。

Let’s take a simple example. When you are with a person you dearly love, you always feel that time passes very quickly, but when you are with someone you are sick and tired of, you always feel that time goes by extremely slowly.

同样的道理，人生对于我们来说，不是几十年，而仅仅是几个难忘的瞬间。

By the same reasoning, a human lifetime to us is not a few decades, but only a few unforgettable moments.

面临死亡的时候，我们也总会觉得自己只活过了那么几个瞬间。

When we are facing death, we always feel that we only lived those few moments.

无论什么时候走到人生的尽头，我们都会觉得自己还没有活够，还有太多的事情想要去做，还有太多的东西放不下。

No matter when we come to the end of life, we always feel that we still have not yet lived enough, and there are still so many things we want to do, and so many things we cannot give up.

所以说，时间也是一种幻觉。

This is why we say that time too is an illusory perception.

——《世界是心的倒影》雪漠著

----The World is a Reflection of the Mind,

Writed by famous author Xue Mo

Translated by J. C. Cleary