The Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time 享受的時光并非虛度

The Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time　享受的時光并非虛度

◎ Anonymous

The Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time.
—Bertrand Russell
I was sitting outside my new home yesterday (we just moved last week, and we love the new place), watching the world go by.
There were people in cars, in a hurry to get to their next appointment. There were birds flying by, insects just as busy as the people in cars, plants and weeds thriving in the humid Guam climate.
Inside the house, my children were also busy, as ever, making a mess of the house (which my wife and I would soon clean up), getting into things, their natural curiosity overpowering our previous pleas for them not to play with lotion or take things apart.
The sky was slightly overcast and there was a cool breeze, quite strong and pleasant actually.
It’s not often that most of us just sit quietly, and allow the world to pass us by.
Why not?
What is so important that it can’t wait until later? What email must be answered right this moment? Do we really need to read all those articles online, all those messages from others, all those newspapers and magazines? Do we need to have the television and radio and Internet on all the time?
Is life passing us by as we keep our minds super busy? Are we missing out on the beautiful world around us as we constantly think about the future—what we need to do, our anxieties about what might happen—and the past—what we did wrong, what someone else did to us, what we said, what should have happened?
When was the last time you just sat, and observed? Why not do it today?


享受的時光并非虛度。
——伯特蘭·羅素
昨天，我坐在新家門口（雖然上周才搬來，但我們都很喜歡這個新地方），欣賞著這個世界在我面前匆匆而過。
門外，人們坐在車?yán)锖魢[而去，趕赴下一個約會。鳥兒蟲兒像車上的人一樣匆忙飛過，花草樹木也在關(guān)島潮濕的氣候下蓬勃生長。
屋內(nèi)，孩子們和往常一樣，忙著把家里弄得亂七八糟（我和妻子一會兒還得收拾殘局）。無論之前怎么請求他們不要玩洗滌劑，或者拆東西，都抵擋不住他們對事物天生的好奇心。
天空有點陰沉，夾雜著涼風(fēng)，風(fēng)有點大，卻非常宜人。
沒有多少人可以安靜地坐下來，任光陰流轉(zhuǎn)，看世間變化。
為什么做不到呢？
什么事情如此重要，不能以后再解決？什么郵件非要立即回復(fù)？那些網(wǎng)上的文章、別人發(fā)來的消息、報刊雜志有必要全部都讀嗎？我們有必要時時刻刻都和電視、廣播和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)形影不離嗎？
有沒有想過，當(dāng)我們的內(nèi)心繁忙無比時，生命正在悄然流逝？我們不斷地思考著未來——我們需要做什么，擔(dān)心可能會發(fā)生什么意外；還有過去——我們所犯下的錯誤，別人為我們所做的一切，我們說了什么，應(yīng)該發(fā)生什么……這一切難道就應(yīng)該讓我們錯過周圍美麗的世界？
你上次什么也不做就只是坐著，靜靜地觀察這個世界是什么時候呢？為什么不今天、此刻就付諸行動呢？