Name: 【TED】傑西卡-傑克利:貧窮、金錢--與愛》（傑西卡-傑克利：貧窮、金錢--與愛）。 (【TED】Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love (Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:38:37.000Z
Duration: 18 min 34 s

The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter.

我們說給自己聽的故事，也很重要

I think the way that we participate in each other's stories

when I first heard stories about the poor.

Now I didn't hear those stories from the poor themselves,

我所聽的這些窮人家的故事，並非出自窮人口中

I heard them from my Sunday school teacher

and Jesus, kind of via my Sunday school teacher.

所告訴我們的，傳達的是耶穌的訊息

I remember learning that people who were poor

food, clothing, shelter -- that they didn't have.

像是食物、衣服、收容所這些他們沒有的東西

And I also was taught, coupled with that,

that it was my job -- this classroom full of five and six year-old children --

我們的責任 - 我與教室其他5、6歲的小朋友的責任

And then he said, "What you do for the least of these, you do for me."

祂說：「你們為這些人做的，就是為我而做」

I was very eager to be useful in the world --

And also, it was kind of interesting that God needed help.

還有，我覺得上帝需要幫忙這件事，還蠻有趣的

and it felt like it was a very important thing to get to participate in.

急著想要一起參與，覺得這事很重要

that Jesus also said, and I'm paraphrasing,

I felt like I had been just given a homework assignment

that I had to do, and I was excited to do,

but no matter what I would do, I would fail.

不管我做的怎樣，都一定會失敗

So I felt confused, a little bit frustrated and angry,

like maybe I'd misunderstood something here.

and to feel negative emotion towards a whole group of people.

I imagined in my head, a kind of long line of individuals

我想像的是，一群大排長龍的人

that were never going away, that would always be with us.

They were always going to ask me to help them and give them things,

他們會永遠的要我伸手幫忙、捐東西

but I didn't know how it was going to work.

And I didn't know what would happen when I ran out of things to give,

擔心如果我有天沒東西捐了怎麼辦

especially if the problem was never going away.

尤其是不論如何，問題都解決不了

the other stories I heard about the poor growing up

I heard about things that were going wrong in the lives of the poor.

我聽說那些窮人生活上的挫折故事

I heard about disease, I heard about war --

they always seemed to be kind of related.

that were wrought with suffering and sadness,

And after a while, I developed what I think many of us do,

where I started to feel bad every time I heard about them.

當聽到他們的故事，就心生憐憫

I started to feel guilty for my own relative wealth,

對於我相對來說的富裕，感到罪惡

because I wasn't doing more, apparently, to make things better.

因為我沒有努力的想改善他們的生活

And I even felt a sense of shame because of that.

And I stopped expecting things to really change.

Now I still gave -- on the outside it looked like I was still quite involved.

我還是會捐，表面看來好像依然積極參予

The cost of a cup of coffee can save a child's life, right.

像是買杯咖啡就捐幾元拯救孩童

I gave when I was cornered, when it was difficult to avoid

and I gave, in general, when the negative emotions built up enough

一般來說，我還是會捐錢，因為這種負面情緒的累績

The truth be told, I was giving out of that place,

and excitement to help and of generosity.

對我來說，這開始變成一種交易

I was buying my right to go on with my day

and not necessarily be bothered by this bad news.

聽到負面的故事，一點都沒有影響

And I think the way that we go through that sometimes

disembody a group of people, individuals out there in the world.

分解對於世界上那特定群體的形象，

So as I did this, and as I think many of us do this,

所以我漸漸的，也許很多人都如此

we kind of buy our right to go on with our day.

I think that exchange can actually get in the way of the very thing that we want most.

我想這種交易，會阻撓我們去得到最想要的那樣東西

to really be meaningful and useful in another person's life

參與另一個人的生活，讓自己有意義、有用處

Thankfully, a few years ago, things shifted for me

幸運的是，幾年後事情有了轉變

because I heard this gentleman speak, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

因為我聽了穆罕默德‧尤努斯博士的演講