Name: 克服消極思維模式，尋找快樂 (Overcoming Negative Thought Patterns to Find Joy)
Uploaded: 2025-07-19T19:58:08.000Z
Duration: 4 min 3 s

情態助動詞 B1

Very occasionally, we get a glimpse of what it might be like to be truly happy.

偶爾，我們會瞥見真正幸福的樣子。

Maybe it's late at night on a summer's evening.

程度副詞

Perhaps we've just recovered from an illness.

也許我們剛剛從疾病中恢復過來。

We might have been deeply affected by a book or a piece of music and have gone on a walk on our own through the city or the countryside.

我們可能被一本書或一首音樂深深感染，獨自一人在城市或鄉村散步。

And suddenly, a hugely mysterious thought descends on us.

突然，一個極其神祕的想法降臨到我們頭上。

What if we didn't always have to be as sad and as anxious as we usually are?

如果我們不必總是像平時那樣悲傷和焦慮，那會怎樣？

What if we could more properly appreciate the beauty and the potential that lie all around us?

如果我們能更恰當地欣賞我們周圍的美景和潛力，會怎樣呢？

What if we noticed the trees and the interesting faces of strangers?

如果我們注意到樹木和陌生人有趣的面孔呢？

What if we allowed ourselves to connect more deeply with people around us?

如果我們允許自己與周圍的人進行更深入的交流，會怎樣？

What if we let go of our normal reserve and suspicion and fear?

如果我們放下平時的矜持、猜疑和恐懼呢？

What if we surrender to loving and to being loved?

We intimate a possibility of joy on a vastly different scale to that which we ordinarily countenance.

我們親身感受到的快樂可能與我們通常所接受的快樂大相徑庭。

The standard, somewhat exasperated arguments against any such moods go like this.

反對任何此類情緒的標準論據是這樣的，有些氣急敗壞。

我們不是巫師，也不是空想家。

There are some fixed, grand and important reasons why life is fundamentally awful.

生活從根本上說是可怕的，這其中有一些固定的、宏大的、重要的原因。

But more existentially, this is a journey of suffering.

但從更大的意義上說，這是一次苦難之旅。

We didn't get to where we are today by training our eyes on the upsides.

我們能有今天的成就，靠的不是把目光投向好的一面。

And surely on certain days, there's a great deal of logic here too.

當然，在某些日子裡，這裡也有很多邏輯。

But what if the reality we speak of doesn't fixedly ask anything as grim of us as we suppose?

但是，如果我們所說的現實並不像我們想象的那樣，對我們有任何苛刻的要求呢？

What if there are no genuine necessities that preclude higher levels of happiness?

如果沒有真正的必需品阻礙更高水平的幸福呢？

What if it was principally our own distorted psychology that gets in the way of a richer life?

如果主要是我們自己扭曲的心理阻礙了更豐富的生活呢？

Many of us did not grow up in an atmosphere where joy was rewarded or deemed possible for long.

我們中的許多人並不是在快樂被獎勵或被認為是可能的氛圍中長期成長起來的。

Our childish appetite for giggling soon died down.

我們嬉笑的童心很快就消退了。

Our parents may have been extremely worried or angry or sad.

我們的父母可能非常擔心、憤怒或悲傷。

And we quickly got the message that we needed to keep our heads down and prepare ourselves for long winters of emotional deprivation.

我們很快就明白了一個道理，那就是我們需要低頭，為漫長的情感匱乏的冬天做好準備。

We became good students of a downbeat mindset.

We attached ourselves to a philosophy of sadness.

Not for our states of runaway ecstasy, nor possibilities of love, nor transports of delight at being on the planet.

不是因為我們的狂喜狀態，也不是因為愛的可能性，更不是因為在這個星球上的喜悅之情。

Without necessarily noticing what happened and why, we developed into people who remained loyal to what was implicitly demanded of them in their early years.

我們不一定注意到發生了什麼，為什麼會發生，但我們卻發展成了忠於早年對他們的隱性要求的人。

We are still in a mentality we were quietly coached for and had no alternative to, age 7 or 14.

我們仍然沉浸在 7 歲或 14 歲時被悄悄教導的心態中，別無選擇。

But what if there were, in our adulthood, at this stage in our lives, no ongoing reasons to keep holding on to sadness and worry with our customary energy?

但是，如果在我們的成年期，在我們人生的這個階段，沒有任何持續的理由讓我們以慣常的精力繼續保持悲傷和憂慮呢？

What if we could dare to become fundamentally different, more open to joy and able to bear hope?

如果我們敢於從根本上變得與眾不同，對快樂更加開放，能夠承載希望呢？

We might go into friendships expecting that they could become sources of satisfaction.

我們在建立友誼時，可能會期望它們能成為滿足感的來源。

We might pick partners who didn't reinforce our sense of isolation.

我們可能會選擇那些不會強化我們孤獨感的夥伴。

We might set up our interactions with others so that they could succeed.

我們可能會安排與他人的互動，以便他們取得成功。

We might, in time, take on board one of the most shocking of all thoughts.

假以時日，我們或許會接受一個最令人震驚的想法。

What if we could relocate our misery to where it belongs, a past we weren't able to choose and aimed for something different going forward?

如果我們能將苦難轉移到它的歸屬地，轉移到我們無法選擇的過去，並以不同的方式前進為目標，那會怎樣？

What if we allowed ourselves to become more regular visitors to those still very unknown and understandably terrifying uplands of joy?

如果我們允許自己成為那些仍然非常未知的、可以理解為可怕的快樂高地的常客呢？

We won't change this around in a day or in a little film, but we might derive benefit from every spur we can get.

我們不可能在一天之內或一部小電影中改變這一切，但我們可能會從每一次鞭策中獲益。

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