积极者通过积极地活动或职业为他人创造更好地生活条件，他们给自己的生活制定目标，让自己的失去变得有意义。
Activists create meaning from their loss by contributing to the quality of life of others through activities or careers that give them a purpose in life.
换句话说，他在这里指的是这些人是自己生活的创作者；他们创造自己的生活而不是受他人掌控。
In other words, what he's talking about here is that these people are scribes in their lives; they create their own lives as oppose to those that are being prescribed by others.
但是现代的父母都希望尽其所能地为自己的孩子创造所有的有利条件，让他们掌握所有的生活技能，这的确不是坏事，在我们这个充满竞争和梦想的现代社会中，父母的这种观念是难以改变的。
But modern parents want to give their kids all the advantages and life skills that they can, not a bad thing, surely, and unlikely to change in our competitive, aspirational modern world.
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