The Brave is not Fearless， But They Recognize Something More Important

繪/小雨點

The Brave is not Fearless， But They Recognize Something More Important

繪/小雨點

My dearest daughter, today is your sixteenth birthday. Congratulations. I present you with this diary to fill the pages with your special thoughts of your wonderful life. It is a custom in my family to pass on①①pass on 繼續前進，向前走；把……傳給（下一代）；傳送；傳達；轉移；交給He bowed to me and passed on. 他向我鞠了個躬，向前走去。a piece of wisdom when one reaches this age. I pass it on to you as my father passed it on to me. Amelia, courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. From now on, you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow youself to make the journey. I also want you to know I loved your mother very much and still think of her often. Happy Birthday, my Mia. All my love, your father.

I a m r e a lly no g o o d a t speechmaking. Normally I get so nervous that I faint or run away or sometimes I even get sick. But you really didn't need to know that. But I am not so afraid anymore. My father helped me. Earlier this evening, I had every intention of giving up my claim to the throne and my mother helped me by telling me that it was ok and by supporting me like she has for my entire life. But, then I wondered how I'd feel after abdicating②abdicate 英 ［'?bd?ke?t］ 美 ［'?bd?ket］ vi. 退位；放棄 vt. 退位；放棄同義詞組：fall out of ， render up vi. 退位；放棄 同義詞： yield ， desert ， quit vt. 退位；放棄King Edward Ⅷ of England abdicated the throne in 1936. 英王愛德華八世于1936年退位。The aging founder of the university decided to abdicate. 該大學年事已高的創始人決定引退。my role as princess of genovia.

Would I feel relieved or would I feel sad? And then I realized how many stupid times a day I use the word "I".

In fact, probably all I ever do is think about myself, and how lame is that when there are 7 billion other people on the planet and, Oh, sorry, I'm going too fast.

But then I thought if I cared about the other 7 billion out there instead of just me, that's probably a much better use of my time.

See, if I were princess of genovia, then my thoughts and the thoughts of people smarter than me would be much better heard and just maybe those thoughts could be turned into③turn into （使）成為，（使）變為，轉變為；譯為He turned those sentences into English. 他把那些句子譯成了英文。to turn failure into success 轉敗為勝They turned the reading room into a laboratory. 他們把閱覽室改建成了一個試驗室。同近義詞 v. 變成；進入 come into ， change intoactions.

So this morning when I woke up, I was mia thermopolis.

B ut now, I c hoos e t o be f orev ermore A melia mignonette thermopolis renaldi, princess of Genovia.

This ring has been passed on in my family from mother to daughter. 在我家里，這個戒指是媽媽留給女兒的。He has passed me on all the materials which he had got together. 他把已搜集到的材料全交給了我。