我没有被开除——我想办法留下来了。Priscilla开始和我约会。你们知道，那部电影（《社交网络》）说的Facemash对创造Facebook好像很重要似的。并非如此。但是没有Facemash的话，我遇不到Priscilla。她是我生命中最重要的人，所以从这个角度说，Facemash是我人生中做出的最重要的一样东西。

We've all started lifelong friendships here, and some of us even families. That's why I'm so grateful to this place. Thanks, Harvard.

在这里，我们开始结交一生的挚友，甚至有的以后会成为家人。这是为什么我对这里如此感激的原因。谢谢你，哈佛！

有目标不够，你要为他人创造目标

Today I want to talk about purpose. But I'm not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We're millennials. We'll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I'm here to tell you finding your purpose isn't enough. The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

今天我想谈谈目标（Purpose），但是我不是来给你们做一些程序化的宣言，告诉你们如何发现目标的。我们是千禧一代，我们会出于直觉和本能发现目标。相反地，我站在这里要说的，是仅仅发现目标还不够。我们这代人面临的挑战，是创造一个人人都能有使命感的世界。

One of my favorite stories is when John F Kennedy visited the NASA space center, he saw a janitor carrying a broom and he walked over and asked what he was doing. The janitor responded: "Mr. President, I'm helping put a man on the moon".

我最喜欢的一个故事，是约翰·F·肯尼迪访问美国宇航局太空中心时，看到了一个拿着扫帚的看门人。于是他走过去问这人在干什么。看门人回答说：“总统先生，我正在帮助把一个人送往月球。”

Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.

目标是我们意识到我们是比自己更大的东西的一部分，是我们被需要的、我们需要更为之努力的东西。目标能创造真正的快乐。

You're graduating at a time when this is especially important. When our parents graduated, purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community. But today, technology and automation are eliminating many jobs. Membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void.

今天，你在这个特别重要的时刻毕业了。当你父母毕业的时候，目标很大程度上来自工作、教会、社群。但是今天，技术和自动化正在代替很多工作，社区成员人数也在下降。许多人感到沮丧，感到自己被隔离开来了，同时也在努力填补空白。

As I've traveled around, I've sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or somewhere to go. I've met factory workers who know their old jobs aren't coming back and are trying to find their place.

当我走过很多地方的时候，我曾和许多被拘留的、阿片类药物成瘾的孩子们坐在一起，他们告诉我如果他们有事可做，参加课后活动或者有地方可去，他们的人生会变得很不一样。我也遇到过很多工厂的工人，他们没法再从事之前从事的工作了，所以试图找到新的能做的事。

To keep our society moving forward, we have a generational challenge -- to not only create new jobs, but create a renewed sense of purpose.

为了保持社会的进步，我们身负挑战——不仅仅是创造新的工作，还要创造新的目标。

I remember the night I launched Facebook from my little dorm in Kirkland House. I went to Noch's with my friend KX. I remember telling him I was excited to connect the Harvard community, but one day someone would connect the whole world.

我还记得在Kirkland House的小宿舍中创造Facebook的那晚。我和我的朋友KX去了Noch。我记得我告诉他，我很开心能把哈佛的社群连接起来，但是有一天，有人会把整个世界都连接起来。

The thing is, it never even occurred to me that someone might be us. We were just college kids. We didn't know anything about that. There were all these big technology companies with resources. I just assumed one of them would do it. But this idea was so clear to us -- that all people want to connect. So we just kept moving forward, day by day.

我完全没有想到这个人会是我们。当时我们还只是大学生，对此还并不了解。所有这些大型技术公司都有资源，我只是认为其中一个大公司会做到这一点。但是，我对这个想法很确信——所有人都想和彼此连接，所以我们一直在朝这个方向努力前进。

I know a lot of you will have your own stories just like this. A change in the world that seems so clear you're sure someone else will do it. But they won't. You will.

我知道你们中的很多人也会有类似的故事。你觉得很多人都在改变世界，然而他们并没有，而你会。

But it's not enough to have purpose yourself. You have to create a sense of purpose for others.

但是，光有目标是不够的。你必须拥有心系他人的目标。

I found that out the hard way. You see, my hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact. And as all these people started joining us, I just assumed that's what they cared about too, so I never explained what I hoped we'd build.

意识到这点非常难。我从来没想过创造一个公司，我想要的是创造影响力。越来越多的人加入我们，我假设他们跟我关心的是同样的东西，所以我从来没解释过我到底希望建立什么。

A couple years in, some big companies wanted to buy us. I didn't want to sell. I wanted to see if we could connect more people. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world.

几年来，一些大公司想要收购我们。我拒绝了。我想知道是否能连接更多的人。我们正在建立第一个新闻流（News Feed），当时我想，如果我们能做到这一点，它可能会改变我们学习世界的方式。