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“有一天，我的朋友带我去了世界上最神奇的地方，叫奥古斯顿，奥古斯都大帝建造了它来收藏遗迹。野蛮人来了，他们摧毁了一切，包括奥古斯顿。伟大的奥古斯都，罗马第一个真正的皇帝，他怎么能想象，和他所知道的全世界，有一天会成为断壁残垣？黑暗时代，有人闯进来，偷走了大帝的骨灰，十二世纪时，这成为了卡罗林诺家族的一个要塞，后来变成斗牛场，再后来变成烟火仓库，现在则是流浪汉的厕所，所以你得时刻注意你的脚下……这里是罗马最安静，最寂寥的地方之一，城市已经在它周围成长了几个世纪，它就像一个珍贵的伤口，像你不会放弃的心碎，因为它伤的太完美了。David，我们都希望事物能保持原样，安于活得悲惨，是因为我们害怕改变，害怕事物变成废墟。我环顾这里，看它经受的这些混乱，这些改造、焚烧、掠夺……然后又找到了重新塑造自己的方式，然后我就释然了，也许我的生活还没有那么糟糕，世界就是这个样子而已。毁灭是种礼物，毁灭是通向变化的途径。即使在这个永恒之城，奥古斯顿让我明白，我们必须为无尽的变化浪潮做好准备，比起绑在一起，我们都应该过得更好，不要害怕分开带来的伤害。”
But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor...how could he have imagined that Rome... the whole world, as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins? During the Dark Ages, someone came in here and stole the emperor's ashes. In the 12th century, it became a fortress for the Colonna family...then a bullring. They stored fireworks in here after that. Nowadays, it's used as a bathroom for the homeless people...so you better watch your step going down...It's one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. It feels like a precious wound..like a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured, the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged..then found a way to build itself back up again, and i was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, it's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better than staying together..because we're afraid we"ll be destroyed of we don't.....
But a friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor...how could he have imagined that Rome... the whole world, as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins? During the Dark Ages, someone came in here and stole the emperor's ashes. In the 12th century, it became a fortress for the Colonna family...then a bullring. They stored fireworks in here after that. Nowadays, it's used as a bathroom for the homeless people...so you better watch your step going down...It's one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. It feels like a precious wound..like a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it's endured, the way it's been adapted, burned, pillaged..then found a way to build itself back up again, and i was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic, it's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better than staying together..because we're afraid we"ll be destroyed of we don't.....
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