突然意识到，如果他觉得自己没有取得任何成就，那是因为他未能珍惜自己所做的事情。他填补了他的日子，做普通的，毫无疑问的事情，对他们一无所知。但是他们远非一无所有：
(suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing:)