马修·麦康纳2015休斯顿大学毕业演讲(6)
So… No. 3: Happiness is different than joy.
那么…第三点：快乐不同于喜悦。
You hear that all the time, don’t ya? “I just want to be happy.” Hum… just wanna be happy.
你们常听到这种说法，不是吗？“我只不过是想快乐。”嗯…只不过是想快乐。
What’s happiness? Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome.
什么是快乐？快乐是对结果的情绪反应。
If I win I will be happy; if I don’t I won’t.
如果我赢了，我就会快乐；如果我输了，我就不快乐。
It’s an if-then, cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain
由于快乐这种“如果–那么”“原因和结果”的关系，这种抵偿标准，我们无法让它持久，
because we immediately raise it every time we attain it.
因为每次我们获得快乐，我们立刻就将标准提高。
You see happiness… happiness demands a certain outcome. It is result-reliant.
可以看到，快乐需要结果，它依赖于结果。
And I say if happiness is what you’re after, then you are gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time.
我说，如果你们追求的就是快乐，那么你们就会不断地感到失望，多数时候你们都不会快乐。
Joy, though. Joy’s a different thing; it’s something else. Joy is not a choice.
可是喜悦却不是。它和快乐不同。喜悦不是一种选择。
It’s not a response to some result. It’s a constant.
不是对某种结果的反应。喜悦是持久的。
Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.
喜悦来源于做我们喜欢做的事，与结果无关。
Personally, as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being more happy when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain end.
就我个人而言，作为演员，当我不再试图将每天的劳动作为达到某种特定目的的手段时，我开始享受我的工作，并且的确变得更快乐。
For example, I need this film to be a box office success; I need my performance to be acknowledged; I need the respect of my peers.
例如，我需要这部电影票房大卖；我需要我的表演获得认可；我需要得到同龄人的尊重。
All those are reasonable aspirations, but the truth is,
所有这些都是合理的愿望，但事实是，
as soon as the work, the daily making of the movie, the doing of the deed became the reward in itself, for me?
一旦工作、每天的影片拍摄、做事变成了对其本身的回报，那对于我的意义呢？
I got more box-office, more accolades, and more respect than I’d ever had before.
我就获得了比以往更高的票房、更多的赞誉和更多的尊重。
See, joy is always in process; it’s under construction;
可以看到，喜悦总是在过程之中，在不断构建当中；
it’s inconstant approach, alive and well in the doing of what we are fashioned to do and enjoying it.
它会不经意地到来，就在我们从事自己喜欢做的事情并享受这一过程当中。
马修·麦康纳2015休斯顿大学毕业演讲