I contemplated my twenty-six years. これまでの26年間を思い返してみた。
I had experienced 様々な経験をした。
privilege as well as denunciation,
courage as well as fear, 勇気と恐怖
seen kindness and loyalty as well as the depths of human ugliness. 優しさや忠誠心と人の心の闇に潜む醜さ
Amid suffering, ruin, and death, 様々な苦しみ、没落、死
I had above all known love and the indestructible human capacity to survive and to pursue happiness. その全てから、愛と人に備わっている生きていく力強さ、幸せを追い求める力強さを学んだ。 (訳は上手く訳せないので、適当ですが、だいたいの意味はあっているはずです)