你或許還是不大理解這種說法，因為你可能會覺得，人與浪花不可能是同一種東西，浪花很快就會消失，但人的一生卻要漫長得多。

You may still not understand this explanation, because you might feel that humans and ocean spray cannot be the same thing, that ocean sprays disappears very quickly, while human life lasts a lot longer.

事實上，時間跟萬事萬物一樣，也是虛幻無常的。

In fact, time and the myriad things and events are the same – they are all empty and illusory and impermanent.

我們舉個簡單的例子，你跟心愛的人在一起的時候，總覺得時間過得很快，但是當你跟一個自己非常討厭的人在一起時，卻總是覺得度日如年。

Let’s take a simple example. When you are with a person you dearly love, you always feel that time passes very quickly, but when you are with someone you are sick and tired of, you always feel that time goes by extremely slowly.

同樣的道理，人生對于我們來說，不是幾十年，而僅僅是幾個難忘的瞬間。

By the same reasoning, a human lifetime to us is not a few decades, but only a few unforgettable moments.

面臨死亡的時候，我們也總會覺得自己只活過了那么幾個瞬間。

When we are facing death, we always feel that we only lived those few moments.

無論什么時候走到人生的盡頭，我們都會覺得自己還沒有活夠，還有太多的事情想要去做，還有太多的東西放不下。

No matter when we come to the end of life, we always feel that we still have not yet lived enough, and there are still so many things we want to do, and so many things we cannot give up.

所以說，時間也是一種幻覺。

This is why we say that time too is an illusory perception.

——《世界是心的倒影》雪漠著

----The World is a Reflection of the Mind,

Writed by famous author Xue Mo

Translated by J. C. Cleary