The Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time　享受的时光并非虚度

◎ 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?


享受的时光并非虚度。
——伯特兰·罗素
昨天，我坐在新家门口（虽然上周才搬来，但我们都很喜欢这个新地方），欣赏着这个世界在我面前匆匆而过。
门外，人们坐在车里呼啸而去，赶赴下一个约会。鸟儿虫儿像车上的人一样匆忙飞过，花草树木也在关岛潮湿的气候下蓬勃生长。
屋内，孩子们和往常一样，忙着把家里弄得乱七八糟（我和妻子一会儿还得收拾残局）。无论之前怎么请求他们不要玩洗涤剂，或者拆东西，都抵挡不住他们对事物天生的好奇心。
天空有点阴沉，夹杂着凉风，风有点大，却非常宜人。
没有多少人可以安静地坐下来，任光阴流转，看世间变化。
为什么做不到呢？
什么事情如此重要，不能以后再解决？什么邮件非要立即回复？那些网上的文章、别人发来的消息、报刊杂志有必要全部都读吗？我们有必要时时刻刻都和电视、广播和互联网形影不离吗？
有没有想过，当我们的内心繁忙无比时，生命正在悄然流逝？我们不断地思考着未来——我们需要做什么，担心可能会发生什么意外；还有过去——我们所犯下的错误，别人为我们所做的一切，我们说了什么，应该发生什么……这一切难道就应该让我们错过周围美丽的世界？
你上次什么也不做就只是坐着，静静地观察这个世界是什么时候呢？为什么不今天、此刻就付诸行动呢？