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在你听到节目的时候
我已经是一个大四的学生
很多人都说
大学其实只有三年的时间给你去疯狂
去做想做的事
遇见想遇见的人
到了大四呢
有的人忙于找工作
忙于考研
人们往往身不由己
大学刚入学那种朝气蓬勃也都烟消云散
但我却不这么认为
我觉得大四应该是最潇洒的一年
在大学的最后一年里
更应该做自己想做的事情
在学生时代的愿望清单里打上一个个帅气的小红勾
那今天给大家带来的文章叫做it's never too late
讲述了一个五十岁的中年妇女追逐年轻时候梦想的故事
故事的主人公在年轻的时候想成为一名空姐
但是经过了好几年尝试都被航空公司拒绝
于是在往后的几十年里呢
他都从事客户服务工作
但是内心深处仍然对空姐充满着向往
到人近中年的时候
他依然没有放弃尝试
最终抓住机会在五十一岁的时候实现和年轻时候的梦想
这期节目送给即将成为大四应届毕业生的自己
希望自己能够不屈服于现实
不忘初衷
过好大学的最后一年
也送给每一位听众朋友
希望你能坚持自己的热爱
永不放弃
做自己想做的事情
永远都为时不晚
在这里呢
我们也设置了互动的话题
你有哪些事是自己一直想做但是又没有做的呢
欢迎你留言跟我们分享
那接下来让我们一起聆听这篇文章
It's never too late
It's never too late
Who knows what the path of life will hold for us not even a crystal ball or forhiuntaller can answer to get through this
Sometimes rough road called life
I have personally found that you must have faith and your own personal strength pursue your dreams
Hoping they will become your reality and never give up dreams are what reality is made of at the age of seventeen
Like many young woman
I had been masstimized on a flight to europe by stewardus
She looked like a goddess to me
I couldn't take my eyes off her
As she walked through the cabin performing her duties imppacably trust coyft
And many cured my stay in europe was for three weeks
And all i could think about was the filight home watching another stewards and action at the age of nineteen
I was in my second year of college
And not sure what my major should really be all alone
I had in the back of my mind
The desire to be just like the students
I have observed two year's pia
I decided to embark on the application process to airlines
I pursued these pants taking process for three years and back
Then there were no computers
No email
And all forms were obtained by hand typiget letters in the snow melmail service to my surprise
I received five recrats to be interbuiled
I was well versed in every airline at another the kk
Their stewards colors
Their roots exttra
I made sure
When presenting myself at an interview
I was stressed in their colors to look as close to be one of their own letter after letter of rejections came to my mailbox year after year
I continued my pursuit
Until i finally realized i must lack something that prevented my acceptance
This was a devastating reality
I stopped sending out the applications
And pushed my deepest desire
My passion deep down inside me
And went on with what life was to bring me without the airlines
My future careers from the age of twenty one to fifty or related to customer service
Whether i was a reception foreigmanagement
I always dealt with the public during this town period
I got my three boys and later divorced life was heart
I was financially devastated overwhelmed with massive responsibwith massive responsibilities
I remind myself
Every morning to keep my faith in myself
That i could be successful in anything i pursued
But the reality of my surprised desire to flight was still ever present
Unfortunately my responsibilities as a mother
Vabties as a mother ther came first not what i personally wanted to fulfill for myself
My three songs were my life and so it went on
Eventually my first two sons had left for college
When my third son was approaching high school graduation in the spring of two thousand and five
I had just left a company that did not understand compassion for their customers in january
Two thousand and five watched the tv program called airline
That depeted the every day happenings of southwest airlines travellers
They profile the flight attendant not stewarus anymore a fifty year old widdow living alone as all her children were grown and had left home
She said she loved working with people and needed to get out of the house
She said she had seen an advertisement for a southwest airline open house for fly attendance
She decided to attend and see what the possession inteiled after going through the extensive application process to her surprise she was hired and sent to training because of exsuburberance and excitement for the job
I realized that she was the same age as i was
And if she could get in so could i so it began again
It took three months for the locally based airline to have an open house in my era
But i was ready to go this open house took two hours
And no matter what they said about any of the torture
I would experience performing the drop
I didn't care
I knew from the time
I decided to go to the open house
That i was going to be a flight attended
I knew i wouldn't fail
And this was it two days later
I received the call for a second interview one week later
I was back doing the infamous airline interview
But i was in nervous ous
This
I knew the the ath ath
I have traveled through life
Had prepared me at for this dedeavor
My final phone call came the next morning at nine
Am this was the end of march two thousand and five
And i was in the training manphas tennasseas the next week enduring a three week training program
Which included a massive amount of studying
Evacuation
Testing and watching fellow classmates being sent home one by one kept my motion strunwn out so tight
I felt like a rubber band ready to snap
But despite all of this a special bound was created between those who survived that torture while in chaining on apple
Twenty sixth
I turned fifty one and on able twenty seven
Seventh
I took my final exam in uniform and pasast graduation was a very special event
The moment
My flight wings were perented to me all like think about was how hard i worked for the thirty years to be able to have this swings
I realized the models i had lived by my entire life
Have servbed me well i was still a fight attendant today
And had been enjoying every minute for the past five years
I realized that make the right choice ice leaving ving job
I hadded with a passion to pursue a last career that would fulfilm me
And i could say i truly laughed besides i won the uniform
And had been waiting a lifetime to wear
我在看完这篇文章的时候其实是挺震撼的
没想到在五十岁的年纪也能够重新过上年轻时候想要的生活
前段时间我看到一个新闻
说是四位年龄加起来已经三百六十岁的老人组队参加了职业的游泳锦标赛
他们当中有的人得过癌症
有的人患有心血管病
每一个人都患有关节炎
但是依然在追逐没有完成的梦想
大胆挑战自我
在我们的听众朋友里呢
也不乏这样的榜样
来自北京的段阿姨今年已经六十九岁
年轻的时候到北大荒做过知青
当过数学老师
六十七岁的时候才开始学习摄影
上老年大学参加旅行摄影团
那现在拍的照片也是越来越精美
段阿姨在北京和我们的主播永清
小思 肖宇 老v
Wilson
陈述都有过见面
甚至成为了万年之交
反正来自济南的秀姐曾经是山东电视台的一名资深记者
那现在是一位资深奶奶
几年前为了预防老年痴呆
零基础开始学习英语
秀姐还和老伴儿一起背包去了欧洲和美国驻当地的民宿
和外国人交朋友
前段时间秀姐还参与了我们的节目
为小孙子和小孙女读晚安诗
还有一位来自西安的温丽阿姨
今年已经六十岁了
她不仅英语好
唱歌好
跳舞也好
在看到温丽阿姨照片的时候
我我们都被惊呆了
岁月在温丽阿姨身上留下的是优雅和美丽
那在听到这些榜样的时候
你内心是否也会燃起一丝希望呢
不如重新拾起那些年曾经被你放弃过的
被搁置过的梦想吧
毕竟就像文章题目中说的
It's never too late
当我们重新开始制定计划
迈开步伐的时候
相信你也会遇见一个完全不一样的自己
好了
今天的节目就到这里
感谢你的收听
我是罗宾
我们下期再会
