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work and pleaure
to be really happy and really afe, oneought to have at leat two or three hobbie, and they mut all be real. it ino ue tarting late in life to ay: “i will take an interet in thi or that.”uch an attempt only
aggravate the train of mental effort. a man may acquiregreat knowledge of topic unconnected with hi daily work, and yet hardly getany benefit or relief. it i no ue doing what you like; you have got to
likewhat you do. broadly peaking, human being may be divided into three clae: thoewho are toiled to death, thoe who are worried to death, and thoe who arebored to death. it i no ue offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hardweek’ weat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baeballon aturday afternoon. it i no ue inviting the politician or the profeionalor buine man, who ha been working or worrying about eriou thing for ixday, to work or worry about trifling thing at the weekend.
it may alo be aid that rational,indutriou, ueful human being are divided into two clae: firt,
thoewhoe work i work and whoe pleaure i pleaure; and econdly, thoe whoework and pleaure are one. of thee the former are the majority. they havetheir compenation. the long hour in the office or the factory bring withthem a their reward, not only the mean of utenance, but a keen appetite forpleaure even in it implet and mot modet form. but fortune’ favoredchildren belong to the econd cla. their life i a natural harmony. for themthe working hour are never long enough. each day i a holiday, and ordinaryholiday when they come are grudged a enforced interruption in an由好作网www.hAOzuowEn.com整理
aborbingvacation. yet to both clae the need of an alternative outlook, of a changeof atmophere, of a diverion of effort, i eential. indeed, it may well bethat thoe whoe work i their pleaure are thoe who mot need the mean ofbanihing it at interval from their mind.
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工作和娱乐
要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我要培养这个或那个兴趣”是毫无用处的，种这种尝试只会增加精神上的负担。在与自己日常工作无关的领域中，一个人可以获得渊博的知识，但却很难有所收益或得到放松。做自己喜欢的事是无益的，你得喜欢自己所做的事。广言之，人可以分为三个类别：劳累而死的人，忧虑而死的人和无聊而死的人。对于那些体力劳动者来说，一周辛苦的工作使他们精疾力竭，因此在周六下午给他们提供踢足球或者打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对于政界人士，专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为棘手的事务操劳或者烦恼了六天，因此在周末请他们为琐事劳神同样毫无意义。
或者可以这么说，理智的，勤奋的，有用的人可以分为两类：对第一类人而言，工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；对于第二类人而言，工作和娱乐是合二为一的。很大一部分人属于前者。他们可以得到相应的补偿。在办公室或工厂里长时间的工作，不仅带给他们维持生计的金钱，还带给他们一种渴求娱乐的强烈欲望，哪怕这种娱乐消遣是以最简单，最淳朴的方式进行的。而第二类人则是命运的宠儿。他们的生活自然而和谐。在他们看来，工作时间永远不够多，每天都是假期；而当正常的假日到来时，他们总会抱怨自己有趣的休假被强行中断。然而，有一些东西对于这两类人来说都十分必要，那就是变换一下视角，改变一下氛围，尝试做点不同的事情。事实上，那些把工作看作娱乐的人可能是需要以某种方式将工作不时地驱赶出自己的大脑。
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crazy work
lat week i read blog on the internet, one article touched my heart. it recorded three women in china, who worked overtime to death. no matter how we urprie, we had to admit that their torie were real. nowaday people attach importance to houe and car, but what i the mot important to u? we may ay life. ye, without life, there i nothing we can do. of coure they alo know the importance of life, but they didn’t notice that their live were going on diappeared. if they had realized their eriou conequence they might have quitted office and live an ordinary life with their parent and children. however, mot of time we are unwilling to live what we chooe at preent. we are not driving but driven in uch a world.
crazy working reluctantly eem to be normal in today’ ociety. we often ee our friend or colleague often tay up late to work overtime until 2 or 3 o’clock a.m. we often ee them look dreadful becaue of enormou phyical and pychological preure. now ome of u are facing the problem of hunting ideal job. ome aid they would chooe to work in firt tier citie like beijing or hanghai or guangzhou, and then they would go back to their hometown or ome econd tier citie. it eem reaonable that we plan to go all out in work for one or two year when we are young. but whether our plan will be carried out moothly or not depend on our own widom. one of my iter went to an enviable conulting company. everal year later he hifted from
high-paying field to adminitrative ervice. when aked why, he aid it wa horrible. her female colleague were afraid of pregnancy. ome pregnant women had to tay up late for pile of work and ome even cannot bear children becaue of poor body condition. he alo found that many familie around were not o happy. the reaon wa very eay, they had no time to tay with their familie.
why we have le freedom with more with more and more material abundance? of coure we can ignore thi problem and live our own life. but in the fat-tempo ociety people would be like the worker ,acted by comedian chaplin in modern time, who kept turning the crew and everything like crew until he wa completely exhauted did he topped.
when i wa a child, my mother often ang chinee claic ong of angel matche. o what kind of couple can be called angel matche? the lyric decribe the cene that huband plough and wife weave, huband carrie water and wife water garden. thirty year later, our criteria for hi future huband i that he mut have car and big houe without loan and with an amount of depoit. there
i a great properity of material wealth in modern ociety, which enlave and prevent people from puruing their true love. in fact, if we loe our heart home, no matter how big the houe i, it cannot give u ene of ecurity and atifaction.
therefore, in my point of view, we mut give up omething if we want to increae freedom. becaue the good thing uch a dream, paion, love and o on, are the mot invaluable in our life. o we hould think over what we want and what uit u bet. only in thi way can we live a happy life.