雙語散文:做得更好

【英文原文】

Do it Better

The next time you find yourself complaining that something is broken or inconvenient or of low quality, go and do it better instead.

If you hate how slow the line at your local coffeeshop moves, go and start a coffeshop that does lines better.

If you think your boss is a terrible manager, get your own department or company or team and run it the right way.

If you’re appalled at the state of modern literature (“What are kids reading these days?”), write the kind of book that ought to be written.

If you think pharmaceutical companies are corrupt, build one that isn’t.

“That’s impossible,” you say. “I can’t start a multi-billion-dollar company or write a bestseller or run a whole department!”

Why not? Someone else clearly did. What makes you think you can’t? Plus, if you’re right about the better coffeeshop or the better management or the better book, then the market and the world are desperately looking for someone like you.

“But I can’t do all of that!” you protest.

You’re right; you can’t fix everything. You might not even be able to do two or three things. But if the other choice is to become yet another armchair reformer who does nothing but complain, why not pick one and do something?

【中文譯文】

下一次，當你發現有不順眼的，比如，什麼什麼是壞的，慢的，劣質的，不要抱怨，自行做得更好。

如果，你覺得你家附近咖啡店的流水線，實在太慢，那麼不要遲疑，重開一家做得更好的店。

如果，你覺得你的老闆是個很糟糕的管理者，自己開個公司或者成立自己的工作室吧。

如果，你質疑現在的媒體在做什麼，在給小孩子們看些什麼亂七八糟的東西，那麼不要遲疑，自己動手給孩子們寫一本書吧。

如果你覺得這些藥物公司是在太腐敗了，那麼自己 重新開一家吧。

“那是不可能的！”你一定會這麼說，“我不可能成立一個幾百萬的公司，或者，寫一本暢銷書，或者經營一個部門！”

爲什麼不呢？！就是有些人做到了的！ 是什麼讓你覺得不能？如果你真的覺得咖啡廳，兒童讀物等等讓你覺得不滿意，那麼世界的市場就是在找你這樣的人。“但是我肯定不可能完成所有這些！”你肯定會繼續抱怨！

是的，你不可能改正一切，甚至這當中的兩三事，但是，如果，改變歷史，早就新的領導的原因不是抱怨，而是自己來，那麼，爲什麼不選擇一兩件來做個嘗試呢？