2. It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
1. 要想获得真正的快乐与安宁，一个人应该有至少两三种爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到晚年才说“我对什么什么有兴趣”是没用的，这只会徒然增添精神负担。一个人可以在自己工作之外的领域获得渊博的知识，不过他可能几乎得不到什么好处或是消遣。做你喜欢的事是没用的，你必须喜欢你所做的事。总的来说，人可以分为三种：劳累而死的、忧虑而死的和烦恼而死的。对于那些体力劳动者来说，经历了一周精疲力竭的体力劳作，周六下午让他们去踢足球或者打棒球是没有意义的。而对那些政治家、专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为严肃的事情操劳或烦恼六天了，周末再让他们为琐事劳神也是没有意义的。
2. 也可以说，那些理性的、勤勉的、有价值的人们可分为两类：一类，他们的工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；而另一类，他们的工作即娱乐。大多数人属于前者，他们得到了相应的补偿。长时间在办公室或工厂里的工作，回报给他们的不仅是维持了生计，还有一种强烈的对娱乐的需求，哪怕是最简单的、最朴实的娱乐。不过，命运的宠儿则属于后者。他们的生活很自然和谐。对他们来说，工作时间永远不嫌长。每天都是假日，而当正常的假日来临时，他们总是埋怨自己所全身心投入的休假被强行中断了。不过，有些事情对两类人是同样至关重要的，那就是转换一下视角、改变一下氛围、将精力转移到别的事情上。确实，对那些工作即是娱乐的人来说，最需要隔一段时间就用某种方式把工作从脑子里面赶出去。
The Blue Day Book心情忧郁时，别在悲伤的海里沉浮
1. Everybody has blue days.
2. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.
3. Days when you feel small and insignificant,
4. when everything seems just out of reach.
5. You can’t rise to the occasion.
6. Just getting started seems impossible.
7. On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.
8. This is not always such a bad thing.
9. You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!
10. On blue days you feel like you’re floating in an ocean of sadness.
11. You’re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don’t even know why.
12. Ultimately, you feel like you’re wandering through life without purpose.
13. You’re not sure how much longer you can hang on,
14. and you feel like shouting, “Will someone please shout me!”
15. It doesn’t take much to bring on a blue day.
16. You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,
17. find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.
18. You could forget your date’s name or have an embarrassing photograph published.
19. You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,
20. or just have a plain old bad-hair day.
21. Maybe work is a pain in the butt.
22. You’re under major pressure to fill someone else’s shoes,
23. your boss is picking on you,
24. and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.
25. You might have a splitting headache,
26. or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips,
27. or a nasty ingrown toenail.
28. Whatever the reason, you’re convinced that someone up there doesn’t like you.
29. Oh what to do, what to do…?
30. Well, if you’re like most people,
31. you’ll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out.
32. Then you’ll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder,
33. waiting for everything to go wrong all over again.
34. All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim.
35. Until you get so depressed that you lie down and beg the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs.
36. This is crazy,
37. because you’re only young once and you’re never old twice.
1. 每个人都有忧郁的日子，
2. 那些日子真是惨透了，你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底精疲力竭；
3. 那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道；
4. 每件事情似乎都够不着边；
5. 你根本无法振作起来；
6. 根本没有力气重新开始。
7. 在忧郁的日子里，你可能变成偏执狂，觉得每个人都想要吃定你，
8. 其实情况并不总是那么糟。
9. 你感到灰心、焦虑，可能开始神经质地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救药地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大块巧克力蛋糕的疯狂！
10. 在忧郁的日子里，你会觉得自己在悲伤的海里沉沉浮浮；
11. 不论在什么时候，你总有种想哭的冲动，却不知道为了什么；
12. 最后，你觉得自己犹如行尸走肉，失去生活目标；
13. 你不知道自己还可以撑多久，
14. 然后你想大喊一声：“谁来一枪把我打死吧！”
15. 其实一点小事就让你一天都郁闷难当，
16. 也许只是一觉醒来，没有感觉到或者看到自己最棒的一面；
17. 发现自己又多了几条皱纹，又重了几斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一个大包；
18. 你可能忘记了约会对象的名字，或是有张可笑的照片被登出来；
19. 你或许被人抛弃、离了婚，或是被开除、当众出丑、被刻薄的绰号弄得心乱如麻；
20. 或许只因为你得整天顶着一个其丑无比的发型；
21. 也许工作让你痛苦得如坐针毡，
22. 你在强大的压力下顶替他人的位置；
23. 你的老板对你百般挑剔；
24. 办公室里的每一个人都让你发疯；
25. 你可能会头疼欲裂；
26. 或重心不稳跌个正着，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥；
27. 或是指甲长到肉里头了；
28. 不管什么原因，你确定上面有人不喜欢你。
29. 唉，该怎么办，到底该怎么办呢？
30. 嗯，你可能跟大部分人一样，
31. 随便找个东西躲起来,以为事情会自行解决。
32. 结果你得花掉下半辈子的时间回头看，
33. 等着一次又一次重蹈覆辙。
34. 最后你会变成一个易怒的、愤世嫉俗的，或者是一个可怜兮兮的、哭哭啼啼的受害者。
35. 最终你绝望地躺在地上，祈求地球将你吞没，或是沉迷在比利?乔的蓝调音乐中不能自拔。
36. 这的确很蠢，
37. 因为你只能年轻一次，而且绝对不可能老两次。
Love People In All Kinds Of “Weather”爱不论晴雨
1. Make sure your love is unconditional. Make sure you love people in all kinds of “weather”. Or else what is the use if we love a person only when he is good or she is nice? When I need the people most that’s when they leave me. All the time. So please, I hope you won’t be like that. We always have to consider the other party, your companion’s situation and mood. Maybe he’s in difficulty right now. That’s why his mood is not so sweet. Maybe she has so much work to do and so many headaches, so she cannot be so darling like usual. That time is the time when we need to show our most noble quality, the way we want ourselves to be.
