【英语书短读】Educated 当你像鸟飞向山

"Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me."
— Tara Westover (Educated)

我所有的奋斗，我多年来的学习，一直为了让自己得到这样一种特权：见证和体验超越父亲所给予我的更多的真理，并用这些真理构建我自己的思想。我开始相信，评价多种思想、多种历史和多种观点的能力是自我创造力的核心。如果现在让步，我失去的将不仅仅是一次争论。我会失去对自己思想的掌控权。这就是要求我付出的代价，我现在明白了这一点。父亲想从我身上驱逐的不是恶魔，而是我自己。