[attach]6317[/attach] Imagine walking into the door of your childhood home: What would you learn?
想象一下，走进小时候住过的屋子：从中你可以学到什么呢？
Post published by Sonja Lyubomirsky Ph.D. on May 01, 2015 in How of Happiness
Imagine returning to the home where you grew up, opening the door, and walking right back into your childhood or youth? What would you learn about yourself and your life story? How would you live your life differently today?
想象一下你又回到了小时候生活过的屋子，打开门，你会马上走进童年时期或青少年时期吗？关于自己和那些曾经发生在自己身上的故事，从中你能学到什么？你现在的生活与原来的生活又有着怎样的不同？
For the past several decades, psychological scientists have been exploring how the stories that we write about our lives shape the way we think about ourselves, influence our day-to-day behaviors, and impact our happiness.
在过去的几十年里，心理科学家发现，我们如何看待自己的过去，将会塑造思考自我的方式，它会一天天地影响我们的行为，影响我们的快乐幸福。
Having a coherent autobiography makes us feel more accepting about our past and less fearful about the future.
一个合乎逻辑的自传可以帮助我们更好的接受过去，减少对未来的恐惧。
In other words, we are better off if we are able to construct a life narrative of how we became who we are today and how our future will unfold—for example, by imbuing our life history with a sense of orderliness and significance.
换句话说，如果我们能够对过去的生活有一个很好的描述，就能明白我们如何变成现在的样子，明白未来是什么样子——比如，以一种有逻辑的思维、有意义的感觉沉浸到对过去的回忆中去。
比如，当回想起母亲生病时，悔恨自己没有花更多的时间陪伴她，不如想一想她战胜癌症的精神激励了我们把后半生投入到帮助他人的事业上。
生活不单单是无数独立、短暂时光的集合，如果我们能够将这些时刻看作是一场有意义旅行的重要组成部分，那么我们就能获得更大的快乐，实现人生目标。
We are better adjusted when we have the capacity to convert an uncertain future into a series of predictable events.
如果我们能将一个不确定的未来转化为一系列可预见的事件，那么我们就能更好的适应生存环境。
What if we could do that with different periods of our lives? Research shows that by simply writing about the past, people are able to gain a sense of meaning and order about their significant life events, thus affording them the chance to come to terms with these events and reconcile themselves to their regrets.
如果我们在不同的人生阶段都这样做，会有什么不同吗？研究显示，简单地书写自己的过去，人们可以获得一种生命的意义，并且能够排列生活中富有意义的事件的顺序，这样做可以为人们提供与这些事件妥协的契机，最后使得自己与悔恨妥协。