"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
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——伯特兰·罗素
I was sitting outside my new home yesterday (we just moved last week, and we love the new place), watching the world go by.
昨天，我坐在我的新房子外面（上周我们刚搬家，我们都很喜欢这个新地方），看着眼前这个世界匆匆而过。
There were people in cars, in a hurry to get to their next appointment. There were birds flying by, insects just as busy as the people in cars, plants and weeds thriving in the humid Guam climate.
Inside the house, my children were also busy, as ever, making a mess of the house (which my wife and I would soon clean up), getting into things, their natural curiosity overpowering our previous pleas for them not to play with lotion or take things apart.
The sky was slightly overcast and there was a cool breeze, quite strong and pleasant actually.
天空有些多云，嗖嗖凉风，风力强劲，但确实令人感到舒适。
It's not often that most of us just sit quietly, and allow the world to pass us by.
我们大多数人，都很少能静静地坐下来，看着这个世界，与我们擦身而过。
Why not?
为什么不能呢？
What is so important that it can't wait until later? What email must be answered right this moment? Do we really need to read all those articles online, all those messages from others, all those newspapers and magazines? Do we need to have the television and radio and Internet on all the time?
Is life passing us by as we keep our minds super-busy? Are we missing out on the beautiful world around us as we constantly think about the future — what we need to do, our anxieties about what might happen — and the past — what we did wrong, what someone else did to us, what we said, what should have happened?
