Name: 電池電量不足時這樣做 (Do This When Your Battery Is Running Low)
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T18:11:51.000Z
Duration: 3 min 3 s

關於孩子，有一個最基本的事實。

它永遠不知道自己什麼時候累了。

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It just grows convinced that it now hates mummy, that little brother should die, that the button falling off the cardigan is a catastrophe, that its self-respect depends on being allowed to throw the bread knife out of the window sharpened first.

它只是越來越相信，它現在恨媽媽，小弟弟應該死，羊毛衫的扣子掉了是一場災難，它的自尊取決於是否允許它先把磨好的麵包刀扔出窗外。

And it's the role of the parent to notice what is being overlooked and say, very gently, but with deep conviction, Enough, we need to get you to bed fast.

父母的職責就是注意到孩子被忽視的地方，並非常溫和但堅定地說："夠了，我們得趕緊讓你上床睡覺。

We pay no such heed to how our bodies work and when our minds have ceased to do so.

我們對自己的身體是如何工作的，以及當我們的大腦不再工作時，我們卻沒有這樣的關注。

想象一下，現在已經是晚上 7 點多了。

We might have had six hours of patchy sleep, been awake since 6.30am, had four cups of coffee, answered 67 emails, crossed town twice, had four meetings, given two presentations, eaten four slices of pizza, watched 45 short viral films, read about 15 conflicts and 12 scandals.

我們可能只睡了六個小時的懶覺，從早上六點半就醒了，喝了四杯咖啡，回覆了 67 封郵件，穿越了兩次城市，開了四次會議，做了兩次演講，吃了四片披薩，看了 45 部病毒短片，閱讀了 15 次衝突和 12 次醜聞。

And now, unbeknownst to us, we have entered a perilous zone in which we need to exercise extraordinary care to have any chance of managing a safe landing.

現在，在我們不知道的情況下，我們已經進入了一個危險的區域，我們必須格外小心，才有可能安全著陸。

We need to sense how much danger we're in.

我們需要感知我們身處的危險有多大。

The danger of seeing only the idiocies of others as opposed to the reasons they might have committed them.

只看到他人的愚蠢行為，而不去想他們可能犯下這些行為的原因，這是很危險的。

The danger of perceiving accidents as intentions.

The danger of being drawn to wind up someone close to us to alleviate our rage at what the world in general has done to us.

為了減輕對世界對我們所做的一切的憤怒，我們有可能會被捲入對親近的人進行絞殺的危險之中。

The danger of thinking that shouting might every now and then solve something.

以為大喊大叫就能解決問題，這種想法是危險的。

We're in danger of forgetting how much the day has gradually depleted our sense of perspective.

我們有可能忘記這一天是如何逐漸耗盡我們的視野。

We might not have done anything momentous or heroic, not have climbed a mountain or performed heart surgery.

我們可能沒有做過什麼驚天動地的英雄事蹟，沒有爬過山，也沒有做過心臟手術。

What will kill us in the end will not be one big obvious thing, but many decades of invisible minor aggravations and low-grade frictions.

最終導致我們死亡的將不是一件顯而易見的大事，而是數十年來看不見的小摩擦和小惡化。

For example, talk about the need to tidy the upstairs cupboard, bring up what we might do for the holidays, ask why we no longer have any fun, pick this moment to go through the finances.

例如，談談需要整理樓上的櫥櫃，提出我們可能會在假期做些什麼，問一問為什麼我們不再有任何樂趣，挑這個時候來檢查一下財務狀況。

We must insist to our passionate minds that our mounting anger about the chip in the wall, the missing sellotape or the way the partner said really must be about something else.

我們必須讓自己充滿激情的頭腦明白，我們對牆上的缺口、丟失的膠帶或伴侶說話的方式日益增長的憤怒，其實一定是與其他事情有關。

And this we will have to address at another time.

We need to flag up to those we care about, though this doesn't read on our faces, that we have slipped into a hugely fragile state.

我們需要向我們所關心的人表明，儘管這並不能從我們的臉上看出來，但我們已經陷入了一種極其脆弱的狀態。

With a mild smile, we can confess that we have, to all intents, gone a bit mad.

帶著溫和的微笑，我們可以承認，無論如何，我們都有點瘋了。

是以，我們需要通過逃避來表達我們的愛。

We need to give ourselves a long bath and put ourselves in bed not much past nine.

我們需要給自己洗個長澡，九點不到就上床睡覺。

Early for an adult, but a very good time for an exhausted small bunny who has been very active since just after dawn.

對一隻成年兔子來說時間尚早，但對一隻精疲力竭的小兔子來說時間卻很充裕，因為它從天剛亮就開始活動了。

As kindly people have been telling us from the start, it will all seem a lot more bearable in the morning.

正如好心人從一開始就告訴我們的那樣，到了早上，一切都會顯得更容易接受。

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電池電量不足時這樣做 (Do This When Your Battery Is Running Low)

perspective

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