Half a million secrets | Frank Warren

翻译人员: Yuping Huang 校对人员: Angelia King

Hi, my name is Frank,

弗兰克·沃伦:大家好,我叫弗兰克

and I collect secrets.

我收集秘密

It all started with a crazy idea

2004年的11月

in November of 2004.

我有了一个疯狂的想法

I printed up 3,000 self-addressed postcards,

我印制了3000张带返邮地址的明信片

just like this.

就像这样

They were blank on one side,

明信片的一侧是空白的

and on the other side

而在另外一侧

I listed some simple instructions.

我加上了一些简单的说明

I asked people to anonymously share an artful secret

我让人们把他们从来没有告诉过任何人的秘密

they'd never told anyone before.

与其他人分享

And I handed out these postcards randomly

然后我在华盛顿特区的大街上

on the streets of Washington, D.C.,

随机分发这些明信片

not knowing what to expect.

我不知道接下来会发生什么

But soon the idea began spreading virally.

但是这个想法迅速传播开来了

People began to buy their own postcards

人们开始自己买明信片

and make their own postcards.

并且写上他们的秘密

I started receiving secrets in my home mailbox,

我开始在我家里的邮箱里收到各种秘密

not just with postmarks from Washington, D.C.,

这些秘密不仅仅来自华盛顿特区

but from Texas, California,

还有来自德克萨斯州和加利福尼亚的

Vancouver, New Zealand, Iraq.

甚至还有来自温哥华,新西兰,还有伊拉克的

Soon my crazy idea didn't seem so crazy.

很快我发现这个主意并没有我想象的那么疯狂

PostSecret.com

PostSecret.com

is the most visited advertisement-free blog in the world.

成为了世界上访问量最大的无广告博客

And this is my postcard collection today.

这些是我收藏的所有明信片

You can see my wife

你可以看见我的妻子

struggling to stack a brick of postcards

正在努力地把一堆砖块厚的明信片

on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.

放在在由超过五十万个秘密构成的金字塔上

What I'd like to do now

我现在要做的

is share with you a very special handful of secrets

就是和你们分享一些我收藏中

from that collection,

相当特别的一些秘密

starting with this one.

让我们从这个开始吧

"I found these stamps as a child,

“当我还是一个小孩的时候我就有了这些邮票

and I have been waiting all my life

但是我一生都在等着一个人

to have someone to send them to.

好让我用这些邮票寄信给某人

I never did have someone."

但是我没有等到。”

Secrets can take many forms.

秘密可以是多种多样的

They can be shocking

它们可以很震撼

or silly or soulful.

很滑稽,或者饱含深情

They can connect us to our deepest humanity

分享秘密可以将我们带进人性的最深处

or with people we'll never meet.

让我们和素不相识的人拥有某种联系

(Laughter)

[遇到对我很粗鲁的顾客,我会给他们不含咖啡因的咖啡]（笑）

Maybe one of you sent this one in.

有一个人

I don't know.

把这个东西寄给了我

This one does a great job of demonstrating

这一张很好地说明了

the creativity that people have

当人们在制作自己的明信片的时候

when they make and mail me a postcard.

是多么的富有创造力

This one obviously was made out of half a Starbucks cup

这一张很明显是半个星巴克纸杯做成的

with a stamp and my home address written on the other side.

他在另一侧贴上了邮票写上了我家地址

"Dear Birthmother, I have great parents.

“亲爱的生母,我现在有了很棒的养父母

I've found love. I'm happy."

我找到了爱,我很开心。”

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas,

秘密可以让我们想起无数的人间悲喜剧

of frailty and heroism,

关乎脆弱与坚强

playing out silently

在我们周围的人身上

in the lives of people all around us

悄悄的发生

even now.

而也在不断重演

"Everyone who knew me before 9/11

“所有在911之前认识我的人

believes I'm dead."

都以为我死了。”

"I used to work with a bunch of uptight religious people,

“我曾经和一群极其虔诚的信徒一起工作

so sometimes I didn't wear panties,

所以在我没穿内裤的时候

and just had a big smile and chuckled to myself."

尽管一直忍着,但是在心里头还总是坏笑。”

(Laughter)

(笑)

This next one takes a little explanation before I share it with you.

在我给你们看下一个之前,我要先说明一下

I love to speak on college campuses

我喜欢在大学校园里演讲

and share secrets and the stories with students.

并且与学生们分享秘密和故事

And sometimes afterwards I'll stick around

在这之后,我有时就会到处逛

and sign books and take photos with students.

签售一些书,和学生们合影

And this next postcard was made

就这样,其中的一张合影

out of one of those photos.

就出现在了这张明信片上

And I should also mention that, just like today,

而且我必须说明

at that PostSecret event,

在那次会上,就像今天

I was using a wireless microphone.

我用了一只无线麦克风

"Your mic wasn't off during sound check.

“你在试音之后没有关掉麦克风

We all heard you pee."

我们都听到了你尿尿的声音。”

(Laughter)

(笑)

This was really embarrassing when it happened,

这件事情一直都让我觉得很难为情

until I realized it could have been worse.

直到我想到,还好他们没有听到其他东西

Right. You know what I'm saying.

对吧,大家都懂的

(Laughter)

(笑)

"Inside this envelope

“在这个信封里

is the ripped up remains

是我撕掉了的自杀遗书

of a suicide note I didn't use.

还好我没有想要用它

I feel like the happiest person on Earth (now.)"

现在,我觉得我是这个星球上最开心的人了。”

"One of these men is the father of my son.

“这些人中的一个是我儿子的爸爸

He pays me a lot to keep it a secret."

他给了我一大笔封口费。”

(Laughter)

(笑)

"That Saturday when you wondered where I was,

“那个周六当你想着我在哪的时候

well, I was getting your ring.

嗯,我在帮你买戒指呢

It's in my pocket right now."

它现在就在我的口袋里。”

I had this postcard posted on the PostSecret blog

我在两年前的情人节

two years ago on Valentine's Day.

把这张明信片上的内容发在PostSecret的博客上

It was the very bottom, the last secret in the long column.

并且把它放在了一大串秘密的最后

And it hadn't been up for more than a couple hours

短短的几个小时以后

before I received this exuberant email

我就收到了这封欢乐的邮件

from the guy who mailed me this postcard.

是把那张明信片寄给我的那个家伙写来的

And he said, "Frank, I've got to share with you

他说：“弗兰克，你知道吗

this story that just played out in my life."

刚才发生了一件不可思议的事情。”

He said, "My knees are still shaking."

他说：“现在我的腿还颤抖着”

He said, "For three years, my girlfriend and I,

他说：“三年以来，我和我的女朋友

we've made it this Sunday morning ritual

一直都把一起看PostSecret博客

to visit the PostSecret blog together

视作每星期天早上的议程

and read the secrets out loud.

我们一起大声地读出那些秘密

I read some to her, she reads some to me."

我给她读一些，她给我读一些。”

He says, "It's really brought us closer together

他说：“就这样，这些年来

through the years.

我们也越来越亲近了

And so when I discovered

而当我发现

that you had posted

你把我给我女朋友的求婚惊喜

my surprise proposal to my girlfriend at the very bottom,

藏在了这堆秘密的最后的时候

I was beside myself.

我高兴得快魂不附体了

And I tried to act calm, not to give anything away.

于是我装作什么事也没发生

And just like every Sunday,

就像之前的每一个星期天

we started reading the secrets out loud to each other."

我们开始向对方读出这一个个秘密。”

He said, "But this time it seemed like it was taking her forever

“但是这一次，她读出每一个秘密用的时间

to get through each one."

对于我来说都像是千万年。”

But she finally did.

但是她最后终于看到了

She got to that bottom secret, his proposal to her.

在最底下的那个她男朋友向她求婚的秘密

And he said, "She read it once and then she read it again."

“她读了一次，又读了一次”

And she turned to him and said,

她然后转身问我，

"Is that our cat?"

“那只猫是我们的猫吗？”

(Laughter)

(笑)

And when she saw him,

而当她看到他的时候

he was down on one knee, he had the ring out.

她的男友正单膝跪地，把戒指递给她

He popped the question, she said yes. It was a very happy ending.

他问出了那个问题，得到了肯定回复。多美好的结局。

So I emailed him back

于是我回复他

and I said, "Please share with me an image, something,

“发给我一张你们的照片吧

that I can share with the whole PostSecret community

这样我就可以和整个PostSecret社区

and let everyone know your fairy tale ending."

还有所有的人分享你们童话般的结局。”

And he emailed me this picture.

所以他就把这张照片传给了我

(Laughter)

(笑)

"I found your camera at Lollapalooza this summer.

“夏天的时候我在洛拉帕罗扎Lollapalooza发现了你的相机

I finally got the pictures developed

我最后把这些照片洗出来了

and I'd love to give them to you."

我很想把它们还给你。”

This picture never got returned back

这张照片一直都没有

to the people who lost it,

被失主认领

but this secret has impacted many lives,

但是这个秘密影响了很多人

starting with a student up in Canada

从一个叫马蒂的学生开始吧

named Matty.

他来自加拿大

Matty was inspired by that secret

马蒂受到这个秘密的触动

to start his own website,

成立了自己的网站

a website called IFoundYourCamera.

叫做“我找到了你的相机”

Matty invites people

马蒂邀请人们

to mail him digital cameras that they've found,

把他们捡到的数码相机

memory sticks that have been lost

或者丢失了的相片记忆卡

with orphan photos.

寄给他

And Matty takes the pictures off these cameras

每周马蒂都会把这些相机里的照片取出来

and posts them on his website every week.

然后发到网上

And people come to visit

人们便可以在网站上

to see if they can identify a picture they've lost

看他们能不能认出自己丢失了的照片

or help somebody else get the photos back to them

或者帮其他人找到

that they might be desperately searching for.

他们一直苦苦寻找的照片

This one's my favorite.

这是我最喜欢的一张

(Laughter)

(笑)

Matty has found this ingenious way

马蒂独创了这个方法

to leverage the kindness of strangers.

来扩大善良陌生人的作用

And it might seem like a simple idea, and it is,

这是一个简单的想法

but the impact it can have on people's lives can be huge.

但是它可以对一些人有巨大的影响

Matty shared with me

马蒂给我看过

an emotional email he received

一封给他的很深情邮件

from the mother in that picture.

是那幅照片里的妈妈寄给他的

"That's me, my husband and son.

“照片里的是我,还有我的丈夫,儿子

The other pictures are of my very ill grandmother.

其他的照片是我重病中的奶奶

Thank you for making your site.

幸亏有了你这个网站。

These pictures mean more to me than you know.

这些照片对于我比你能想象的要重要得多

My son's birth is on this camera.

这只相机见证了我儿子的出生

He turns four tomorrow."

他明天就四岁了。”

Every picture that you see there

大屏幕上的那几张照片

and thousands of others

还有其它上千张

have been returned back to the person who lost it --

都已经还给了相应的失主--

sometimes crossing oceans,

有时这些照片跨越了各个大洋

sometimes going through language barriers.

有时突破了语言的障碍

This is the last postcard I have to share with you today.

这是今天我想和你们分享的最后一张明信片

"When people I love

“当我爱的人

leave voicemails on my phone

在我的电话语音邮箱里留言的时候

I always save them in case they die tomorrow

我总会保存下来,因为也许明天他们就会死去

and I have no other way

要不然我就再也听不到

of hearing their voice ever again."

他们的声音了。”

When I posted this secret,

当我在网上发布这个秘密的时候

dozens of people

许多人

sent voicemail messages from their phones,

发来了他们电话里保留着的语音信息

sometimes ones they'd been keeping for years,

有些已经在里面好几年了

messages from family or friends

这些语音信息都是来自

who had died.

他们死去了的家人或者朋友们的

They said that by preserving those voices

他们说,他们留着这些声音

and sharing them,

并且和别人分享

it helped them keep the spirit of their loved ones alive.

是为了让他们爱着的人永远活在自己心里

One young girl

有一个女孩

posted the last message

发来了她从她奶奶听到的

she ever heard from her grandmother.

最后的一条语音信息

Secrets can take many forms.

秘密可以有很多种

They can be shocking or silly

可以是震撼,滑稽

or soulful.

或者饱含深情

They can connect us with our deepest humanity

分享秘密可以将我们融进人性的最深处

or with people we'll never meet again.

让我们和素不相识的人有了某种联系

Voicemail recording: First saved voice message.

语音信箱记录:首条保存的语音信息

Grandma: ♫ It's somebody's birthday today ♫

奶奶:♫今天是某人的生日♫

♫ Somebody's birthday today ♫

♫某人的生日♫

♫ The candles are lighted ♫

♫在她的蛋糕上♫

♫ on somebody's cake ♫

♫亮起了蜡烛♫

♫ And we're all invited ♫

♫因为某人生日♫

♫ for somebody's sake ♫

♫我们都被邀请♫

You're 21 years old today.

♫今年你就21岁了♫

Have a real happy birthday, and I love you.

♫生日要很开心,我爱你♫

I'll say bye for now.

♫我要和你说再见了♫

FW: Thank you.

弗兰克·沃伦:谢谢

(Applause)

(鼓掌)

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

(鼓掌)

June Cohen: Frank, that was beautiful,

琼·科恩:弗兰克,那太美妙了

so touching.

真的很感人

Have you ever sent yourself a postcard?

你自己给自己寄过明信片吗

Have you ever sent in a secret to PostSecret?

你自己给PostSecret发送过秘密吗

FW: I have one of my own secrets in every book.

弗兰克·沃伦:我在我自己的每本书里都有我自己的一个秘密

I think in some ways, the reason I started the project,

我觉得,某些程度上,我发起这个项目的原因

even though I didn't know it at the time,

尽管我在那时并不清楚

was because I was struggling with my own secrets.

是因为我在为自己的一些小秘密而纠结

And it was through crowd-sourcing,

而通过把所有秘密集合起来

it was through the kindness that strangers were showing me,

我看到了与我素不相识的人展现出来的善良

that I could uncover

也正是这样

parts of my past that were haunting me.

我才能把困扰自己已久的秘密公之于世

JC: And has anyone ever discovered

琼·科恩:那有没有人发现

which secret was yours in the book?

你书里面的某个秘密是你的呢

Has anyone in your life been able to tell?

有没有哪个人能够发现呢

FW: Sometimes I share that information, yeah.

弗兰克·沃伦:我有的时候会告诉一些人哪些是我的秘密

(Laughter)

(笑)

(Applause)

(鼓掌)