看世界與我們擦身而過 Watch the World Go by

Watch the World Go by

靜靜地坐下來 看世界與我們擦身而過

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell

“享受的時光並非虛度”——伯特蘭•羅素

I was sitting outside my new home yesterday (we just moved last week, and we love the new place), watching the world go by.

昨天，我坐在我的新房子外面（上週我們剛搬家，我們都很喜歡這個新地方），看着眼前這個世界匆匆而過。

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.

人們坐在車裏，急急忙忙趕赴下一場約會。鳥兒飛過，蟲兒也像坐在車裏的那些人一樣忙碌。在Guam(關島)潮溼的氣候下，花草樹木茁壯成長。

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.

房子裏，孩子們也忙得很，和往常一樣，屋裏被弄得亂七八糟（我和妻子一會兒還要打掃清理），對任何事物都感興趣，他們天生的好奇心讓我和妻子實在沒辦法，絲毫不顧我們之前的告誡，玩洗滌劑，把東西都拆了玩。

The sky was slightly overcast and there was a cool breeze, quite strong and pleasant actually.

天空有些多雲，嗖嗖涼風，風力強勁，但確實令人感到舒適。

It's not often that most of us just sit quietly, and allow the world to pass us by.

我們大多數人，都很少能靜靜地坐下來，看着這個世界，與我們擦身而過。

Why not?

爲什麼不能呢？

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?

有什麼重要的事不能等會兒再做？什麼電子郵件一定要此刻回覆？我們真的必須要閱讀網上所有的文章，別人發來的所有短信，還有所有的報紙和雜誌嗎？我們需要一直看電視、聽收音機、上網嗎？

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?

有沒有想過，當我們的大腦瘋狂忙碌的時侯，生活正在我們身邊悄然離去？我們不斷地思考未來——我們需要做什麼，我們擔憂可能會發生的事——還有，過去犯下的錯誤，別人對我們做了什麼，我們說了些什麼，應該發生些什麼——有沒有想過，所有的這些，令我們錯過了身邊美麗的世界？

When was the last time you just sat, and observed? Why not do it today?

上一次你坐下來，靜觀這個世界是什麼時候的事了？爲什麼不今天就付之行動呢？