Where Are We Going?

where are we going?
我们将去往何方？

I’m going to the dock later to order some French fries.
我打算待会去码头整点薯条。

No, you misunderstood…
不，你误会了……

I mean, what is the ultimate goal of our life?
我的意思是，我们这一辈子的终极目标，到底是为了什么？

What’s your opinion?
你觉得呢？

I…
我……

I don’t think it’s going to the North Pole to see the aurora.
我觉得一定不是去北极看极光。

Your story sounds a little strange.
你的故事听起来好像有点奇怪。

You have fulfilled your long-standing dream, and broken through all obstacles.
你完成了长久以来的梦想，冲破了一切阻碍。

Why do you still feel so painful?
为什么你还觉得如此痛苦？

I really felt great satisfaction at the bottom of my heart.
我的心底确实感受到了巨大的满足。

But almost in an instant.
但几乎就是在瞬间之间。

I felt the endless nothingness.
我就感受到了无尽的虚无。

What did the aurora bring to me?
看到极光给我带来什么了吗？

There seems to be nothing.
好像什么也没有。

I still clearly remember the palpitation in my heart when I dreamed of seeing the aurora as a child, but when I grew up, the throbbing became lighter and lighter.
我至今仍然清晰地记得我小时候梦想着看到极光时那份心中的悸动，但是长大后，那份悸动却越来越淡。

I was overwhelmed by life, and was no longer able to complete the so-called dream.
我被生活压得喘不过气来，再也无力去完成那所谓的梦想。

But when I buried my dream, my heart was unwilling.
但是当我埋葬我的梦想时，我的心却不甘。

So, I’ve tried my best, and came here with the body that, I didn’t know how long I could live, I long for the aurora to bring me an eternal meaning, so that I can fight (against) life bravely.
所以，我拼尽了全力，带着不知道还能活多久的躯壳来到这里，我渴望极光能给我带来一个永恒的意义，让我可以去勇敢的对抗生活。

But that doesn’t exist.
但那是不存在的。

It has no meaning at all.
它什么意义也没有。

My life will not change, and my story will not fly to the blue sky.
我的生活不会有任何改变，我的故事也不会飞向蓝天。

In that case, what is the meaning of life?
既然如此，生活还有什么意义呢？

The dream that can be moved for it will be dull after it is realized.
能够为之心动的梦想在实现之后便索然无味。

All our pursuits will turn into nothingness in the end.
我们所有的追求到了最后都会化为虚无。

Why should we pursue it?
那我们为什么还要追求呢？

So, I’m not going to go on.
所以，我不打算继续走下去了。

Since life has no meaning, let me go.
既然生命没有任何意义，那就让我离去吧。

Let me go to the abyss, to embrace the eternal nothingness, to embrace the eternal death.
让我走向深渊，去拥抱永恒的虚无，去拥抱永恒的死亡。

Don’t lie to yourself.
别骗自己了。

Deep in your heart, you’re not here to see the aurora.
在你的内心深处，你并不是为了看极光而来的。

You just want to escape, in order to escape your present, past and future life.
你只是想逃避，想逃避你的现在、过去以及未来的生活。

But after escaping?
可是在逃避之后呢？

You still have to come back and face everything.
你还是要回来面对一切。

You don’t just want to give up because life is meaningless, you’re afraid, fear of how you will spend your painful and hopeless life in the future.
你并不只是因为生命没有意义而想要放弃，你在害怕，害怕你未来痛苦且没有希望的人生将要如何度过。

In the past, you put hopes for the future on something that seems meaningful and valuable - watching the aurora.
过去的你将对未来的希望寄托在一个看起来很有意义有价值的事情上——看极光。

But that’s just a mirage.
可那不过是镜花水月而已。

When you really realize this, you surrender to life since watching the aurora is meaningless, why continue to live?
当你真正意识到这一点时，你就对生活彻底投降了。既然看极光没有意义，那为什么还要继续生活呢？

But it is because the world has no meaning in the present, in the past or in the future, and because life has no meaning in the first place, that we are freed from the illusion, and are able to be real with the world of nothingness.
正因世界的现在、过去、将来都不存在意义，正因生命本就无所意义，我们才得以从幻梦中解脱，得以真正的去面对这个虚无的世界。

Leave meaning behind, it doesn’t matter.
将意义抛下吧，那根本不重要。

It is only after all the old ideas have been broken down and reorganized that we can be reborn.
在一切旧的思想被打碎重组后，我们才会得以新生。

So, to go back to the roots of everything, to do something in order to do it.
回到一切的根源上去吧，为了做某件事情而去做。

The meaning of life is no reason, not need any meaning, do what you want, live in every present moment that must come, be free from the control and torture of meaning, then fight against this nihilistic, cruel and painful life till the last second, dance in every painful and meaningless day, and finally fall in love with life bravely.
生命的意义就是没有任何理由、也无需任何意义，做自己想做的事，活在每一个必将到来的当下，不受意义的控制与折磨，然后与这虚无、残酷、而又痛苦的生活斗争到最后一秒，在每一个痛苦且没有意义的日子中起舞，最后勇敢地爱上生活。

Isn’t that the most courageous and worthy thing in the world?
这不才是这个世界最有勇气，最值得奋斗的事情吗？

So, your answer is?
所以你的答案是？