[영어명언/영어필사로 마음 명상하기] Don’t go expecting perfection

That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out! There are thorns on the path, then keep away!
Enough said. Why ponder the existence of nuisance? Such thinking would make you a laughing-stock to the true student of nature, just as a carpenter or cobbler would laugh if you pointed out the sawdust and chips on the floors of their shops.
Yet while those shopkeepers have dustbuns for disposal, nature has no need of them.

-MRcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.50

오이가 쓰면 버리고 길에 가시가 있으면 멀리 떨어지세요.성가신 존재에 대해 심사숙고하지마세요.
그런 생각은 student of nature에게 당신이 목수나 구두닦는사람에게 그들 가게에 떨어져있는 톱밥과 칩을 지적하는것과 같이 웃음거리가 될 것 입니다. 하지만 그 가게 주인들은 그것을 처분할 dustbin 쓰레기통이라도 가지고 있지만, 자연은 그런것들조차 필요로 하지 않습니다.

 

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We want things to go perfectly, so we tell ourselves that we’ll get started once the conditions are right, or once we have our bear-ings.
When, really, it’d be better to focus on making do with how things actually are.
Marcus reminded himself: Don’t await the perfection or aplato’w Republic. He wasn’t expecting the world to be exactly the way he wanted it to be, but Marcus knew instinctively, as the Catholic philos-opher Josef Pieper would later write that “ he alone can do good who knows what things are like and what their situation is” Today we won’t let our honest understanding of the world stop us from trying to make the best of it. Nor will we let petty annoyances and monor obstacles get in the way of the important job we have to do.


완벽주의자 성향을 띄는 나에게 스스로 꼭 해주고 싶었던 말. Don’t go expecting perfection !