雙語美文：讓生活更美好秘密

Someone asked "What's your "secret" to a happy life? What makes your days blissful?" on a forum.

有人在論壇上問，「你保持生活愉悅的秘訣是什麼？是什麼讓你的生活美滋滋的？「

I'm not annoying.Think I've got a higher level of life satisfaction than a lot of my friends. There are four things that I can put my finger on that I think I do a little differently than them (and a lot of people). Hope they bring you some joy!

我無意嘩眾取寵，但我真心覺得自己的生活滿意度比周圍許多朋友都要高。我確定在4件事情生的做法與他們不同，並希望這些不同的做法也能給你帶來快樂！

我總是對生活中發生的一切美好神奇的事情心存感激。

My dogs are great, my wife is a good human, I work with good people, I'm not sick right now, etc...Looking at the basic, mundane stuff around me and appreciating it really helps me feel like I'm a lucky person, and what lucky person isn't happy?

我的狗狗們都很棒。我的愛人很善良，我能同他人很好協作，目前我也沒有疾病纏身。看我周圍這些稀鬆平常的事情，讓我內心感動，覺得自己非常幸運，而且有哪個幸運的人不快樂呢？

我會找到他人身上的可憐之處，尤其是那些讓我可恨之人。如果你沒有惻隱之心，那就不用深究人們行為背後的含義，只要記下可惡之人的討厭之處。

Do that long enough, and the world is **filled** almost exclusively with assholes. If, instead, you really focus on getting past your initialfrustration, to finding the pain/anger/misunderstanding that's motivating their actions, 9 times out of 10 you'll find a human being worthy of your pity and your help.

時間久了，世界上就有了各種各樣的混蛋。相反如果一開始你很難克服有他人引起的沮喪情緒，找到他們或痛苦或憤怒或被誤解行為背後的動機，那其中有十分之九的人值得你的同情和幫助。

Finally, that 1 time out of 10 that you do run into someone who really is just an asshole, you'll be able to walk away from them thankful that you were able to identify them and quarantine them from yourself.

最後想說的是，還有十分之一的人就是個垃圾人，你只要識別他們並且遠離他們就好。

Also, being an asshole is kinda worthy of pity in its own way, I mean, imagine having to go through life with an attitude like that, right?

還有，那些負能量的人都是咎由自取，我想過這麼一生不得有個自己的態度嘛？

時常表達愛意，甘為寵物鏟屎官，慷慨待友人，樂於相信他人。

Approaching the world with honesty about the positive feelings you have is something that, at least in America, is looked at as naive or stupid. Meanwhile, being jaded or edgy is at the heart of pretty much every "cool" stereotype you can think of.

以真誠樂觀的心來面對這個世界，至少在美國這個地方，人們會覺得你很傻很天真。你要顯得「緊張疲憊」才是公認正確的待人處事之道。

I don't think people realize until they've lost something or made a truly irrevocable mistake just how much loss hurts, and how much they'd give to just express their love for whatever it was that is now gone.

（然而）直到人們在失去了某樣東西，犯了不可挽回的錯誤，才體會到失去的痛苦。表達對方聽不到的愛意。

So I don't wait until the right moment, anymore; the right moment is when I'm feeling love for someone or something.

所以我不再等待什麼良辰，在人和物讓我感受到愛意之時，我就會表達。

We're all constantly trying to show each other that we're worthy of love and respect, nobody doesn't like being told that they're loved and respected.

我們都在像別人展示我們是如何值得被愛被尊重，所以大家都喜歡帶有愛和尊重的讚美。

時常問自己有沒有做錯，不要諱疾忌醫。想要做到萬無一失，肩上要負擔不少責任。但是普通人的情商，往往都經歷關係的惡化、無意義的爭辯、負擔無數不必要的壓力。

Give yourself a break, and don't hold yourself to unreasonable standards on this count: as long as you're looking around your world with an open heart and an open mind, the pure intentions behind anything you're wrong about will shine through.