Sunday, January 11, 2004

许多现代人都有一种病,可他们不知道自己有这病。这病叫做 “chronic time shortage.”

就算有人觉得世界有多不公平,有一方面永远是公平的。不论你多聪明或多富有,你一天就只有24小时。不论你是名人或街上的随便一个人,一年还是只有365天,一年还是只由四季。不多也不少,每个人都一样。

可奇怪的是为何有些人永远觉得时间不够,天天赶来赶去,把自己搞到好累好累。有些却似乎能在那24小时做了自己该做的,还有省些时间给自己和身边的人。有些人能在一年完成许多自己想做的事,有些人却一辈子也没完成自己想做的事。

其实我也不知道自己想说些什么,有点对不上答的感觉。可能要点就是这几句话吧?(还是用英文啦,不然我看想到明天都还没想到该用那个词来形容)

Actually life is really a series of tradeoffs and decisions isn’t it? No doubt that some decisions may need some courage and guts to see it through, but at the end of the day it is still your own call in life. You win some, you lose some. No one can really have it all, can we? No matter how victimized we all feel at times, but really if you stare at reality in the face, you’ll realized that half the time we are the ones terrorizing ourselves.

For the majority of people in the world, this is the modern world we are living in where we are really given a personal choice in the way we choose to live our lives.

Why do we allow ourselves to suffer from chronic personal time shortage? Why do we always have to rush off for some sort of activity? It is really just a modern illusion, that we need to always be occupied with activity to be considered “hip & happening” and that “we’ve got it”.

Seriously, what have we gotten by subscribing to such an illusion?

Perhaps that feeling that life is not fulfilling?
Perhaps getting stressed and tired from all that activities?
And with all that stress, we become the uglier and more irritable version of ourselves?
And with all that tiredness, we just get more and more lethargic.
And we failed to live healthier with all that lethargic-ness?
And then we just get overweight and top it up with more and more health problems?

So when finally when things blow up in our face, we became the “victims”. But we failed to realize that we actually brought all these upon ourselves.

或许大家应该为自己找些时间,想想自己现在过的生活是否是社会给的幻觉而不继续带着chronic time shortage 的病。

我知道我又是语无伦次了。有点累,不过还是想先把这乱七八糟的思前想后写下来,不然就会忘了没了。