米歇尔·奥巴马2015塔斯基吉大学毕业演讲(9)
And all of this used to really get to me.
过去，这一切常常困扰我。
Back in those days, I had a lot of sleepless nights, worrying about what people thought of me,
在那些日子里，我常常无法人睡，担心人们如何看待我，
wondering if I might be hurting my husband’s chances of winning his election,
担心有可能会因为我而削弱丈夫在选举中获胜的机会，
fearing how my girls would feel if they found out what some people were saying about their mom.
担心孩子们知道外界是如何评价她们的母亲时会怎样想。
But eventually, I realized that if I wanted to keep my sanity and not let others define me,
最终，我意识到，如果我想保持清醒，不让别人定义我，
there was only one thing I could do, and that was to have faith in God’s plan for me.
我只能做一件事，那就是对上帝为我做的安排充满信心。
I had to ignore all of the noise and be true to myself — and the rest would work itself out.
我不得不忽略所有的干扰，做真实的自己，其余的顺其自然就好。
So throughout this journey, I have learned to block everything out and focus on my truth.
因此，在整个过程中，我学会了排除外界一切纷扰，专注做自己。
I had to answer some basic questions for myself: Who am I? No, really, who am I? What do I care about?
我必须自己回答一些基本的问题：我是谁，不，我到底是谁？我关心的是什么？
And the answers to those questions have resulted in the woman who stands before you today.
就是对于这些问题的回答才成就了今天站在你们面前的这个女人。
A woman who is, first and foremost, a mom.
对一个女人来说，首先而且最重要的是，她是一位母亲。
Look, I love our daughters more than anything in the world, more than life itself.
我爱我的女儿胜过世界上一切，甚至超越生命本身。
And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league educated lawyer, it is truly who I am.
尽管这可能不是有些人想要从一位常青藤盟校毕业的律师口中听到的第一要事，但这是真实的我。
So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.
所以，对我而言，做一位母亲，永远都是头等大事。
米歇尔·奥巴马2015塔斯基吉大学毕业演讲。