她說，「登大人」不是滿十八歲，不是拿到一張成年證書。She says "becoming an adult" doesn't mean turning eighteen, or receiving some certificate of adulthood.
她說的是崩潰——被同學公開批評到體無完膚，被優越條件的男友拋棄，創業低谷時想放棄。每一次崩潰之後，重新選擇要不要相信。She means breakdowns — being publicly torn apart by classmates, abandoned by a seemingly perfect boyfriend, wanting to quit at the lowest point of building something. And, every time, choosing again whether to believe.
相信,在看得見之前 Believing before you can see
高二那年，她去了美國史丹佛大學辦的一個高中生營隊。在那裡她遇到跟她同年紀的學生，卻有完全不一樣的想法——大一大二不一定要選系，可以繼續探索，讀的科系也不一定決定未來做什麼工作；教授鼓勵他們犯錯，把犯錯當成學習正常的一部分。In her second year of high school, she went to a summer program at Stanford. There she met students her own age with completely different ideas — that you didn't have to declare a major in your first two years of college, that you could keep exploring, that your major didn't have to decide your future career. Professors encouraged them to make mistakes, treating mistakes as a normal part of learning.
她說，她從來沒有想過，原來可以是被鼓勵犯錯的——這對一個台灣體制長大的孩子來說，是很大的震撼。She says she'd never imagined you could be encouraged to make mistakes — for a kid raised inside Taiwan's education system, that was a real shock.
「在看不見之前，就相信，是一種選擇」——這句話很值得停下來想。我們常常等看見了才敢信，可是她講的相信，是在還看不見的時候先選擇。"Believing before you can see is a choice" — worth pausing on. We often wait until we can see before we dare believe. But the believing she describes is choosing before the seeing.
妳不是重點 You are not the point
她說，創業低谷的那一刻，一個朋友在動物園河馬旁邊把她拉回來的話最重：「妳根本不是重點，重點是妳承諾要領導的夥伴。」She says the line that pulled her back, at the lowest point, said by a friend in front of the hippo enclosure at the zoo, hit hardest: "You are not the point — the point is the teammates you promised to lead."
那不是安慰，是把人叫回自己的承諾——不是由上而下的鼓勵，是一個平輩直接把人拉回她自己許下的話，逼她自己站起來，而不是替她扛。That wasn't comfort. It was calling her back to her own commitment — not encouragement handed down from above, but a peer directly pulling her back to her own words, pushing her to stand, not carrying her.
拼圖，不是我們套上去的巧合 Puzzle — not a coincidence we grafted on
「拼圖」這個詞，是我們自己先選的——不喜歡「專欄」老氣，改叫每個人的篇章一塊拼圖。她這篇演講的題目剛好也叫「拼圖」，不是我們套上去的巧合，是她自己先這樣講的：人生一片一片選擇相信，拼出自己的人生。"Puzzle" is the word we had already chosen for ourselves — we didn't like how old-fashioned "column" sounded, so we started calling each person's chapter a puzzle piece. Her talk happens to carry the same title, "puzzle" — we didn't graft that on. She said it first, on her own: life assembled piece by piece, trusting the picture before you can see it finished.
她一片一片選擇相信，拼出自己的人生。我們在自己走的路上，常常把這片拼圖放進一群人手裡——一起相信，一起拼。這是我們自己加上去的一層。She assembles her own life, piece by piece. On our own road, we often place that same puzzle into a group of hands — believing together, assembling together. That's a layer we've added ourselves.
環境的重量 The weight of the environment
史丹佛營隊那段，讓我們往前多想一步：被允許探索、被允許犯錯的環境，跟只被允許考第一名的環境，長出來的人不一樣。一個人身上長不長得出探索的勇氣，環境有很大的份量——這是我們自己也在意、也想努力建造的一件事。The Stanford camp pushes us one step further: an environment that allows exploring and allows mistakes grows a different person than one that only allows first place. Whether a person can grow the courage to explore has a lot to do with the environment around them — that's something we care about, and want to keep building, ourselves.
今天，可以問自己一句：我在等看見了才相信，還是願意先選擇？Ask yourself today: am I waiting until I can see before I believe, or am I willing to choose first?
今天，可以為一個正在崩潰邊緣的人，說一句把他拉回自己承諾的話——不是安慰他，是提醒他，他答應過的是什麼。Say something today to someone at the edge of a breakdown — not comfort, but a reminder of what they've already promised.
引自 2020 年國立成功大學畢業演講「劉安婷如何『登大人』：人生不是藍圖而是拼圖」（劉安婷）·
Quoted from Anting Liu's 2020 NCKU graduation address, "How to Become an Adult: Life is Not a Blueprint but a Puzzle."