But that’s not reality. Reality is that bills need to be paid and life has to be lived, and no matter what you’re doing these days, there is no respite. Your parents left an office at 5 PM and their work was over. It did not begin again until they walked in the next morning.
但事实并非如此。事实的情况是:欠债了就得还钱,生活还是得过。现在,不管你做什么行当,生活中都不会有喘息的机会。你的父母可能下午 5 点就下班了,直到第二天早上上班,才又开始工作,但你不是。现在很多事情都基于一个假设的:你所做的工作是你所爱。否则你不会半夜回邮件,同手机共枕眠。
Now, it’s almost assumed that whatever it is that you’re doing, you must love it. Otherwise you wouldn’t be answering email at midnight and sleeping with your phone in your bed.So as you get older, and have spent years plugged into this matrix where everything is work work work— where your mind is never able to turn off— you age a lot. Maybe not in physical years, like in the sense that you’re 60. But you’re 30 and you’ve somehow managed to squeeze double the amount of work into that period of time.
这种生活方式带来的结果就是,你会一连花上好几年完全沉在工作中,几乎每件事都是工作、工作、工作...... 你的心思完全在工作上。尽管物理年龄可能只有 30 岁,但你的心智可能已经达到了 60 岁的水平。很多人都想着在同样长的时间内,做双倍的事情,别人花 30 年,你只想花 15 年。
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