Add luster to your personality

In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.

Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.

It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be identified as anything either his job, his status or his social role that shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn't know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or done on others' sugg estions; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't be able to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing business.

相关单词：awareness

awareness解释：n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

awareness例句：

There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。

Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

相关单词：distinctive

distinctive解释：adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的

distinctive例句：

She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。

This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。

相关单词：peculiar

peculiar解释：adj.古怪的，异常的；特殊的，特有的

peculiar例句：

He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。

He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。

相关单词：luster

luster解释：n.光辉；光泽，光亮；荣誉

luster例句：

His great books have added luster to the university where he teaches.他的巨著给他任教的大学增了光。

Mercerization enhances dyeability and luster of cotton materials.丝光处理扩大棉纤维的染色能力，增加纤维的光泽。