只管去做

Just Do It

当我还是个孩子的时候,在为家人“做事”这件事上,我是相当懒惰的。我在学校努力学习,做一大堆家庭作业,上钢琴课,有时还照顾我妹妹。尽管如此,我还是发现自己经常抗拒在家帮忙做事的冲动,哪怕做的是最简单的事情。如果我妈妈或爸爸让我做什么事情,我会去做---这没问题。但事实上,我总是要被人要求或吩咐去做一些事情---那是些显而易见需要我做的事情--这无疑困扰着我的父母。然而,爸爸妈妈没有意识到的是,在10岁前,我对他人插手的抗拒甚至让我心烦!

As a child,I was pretty lazy when it came to“doing”for my family.I worked hard at school,did tons of homework,practiced for piano lessons,and sometimes looked after my younger sister.Still,I found myself regularly resisting1 the urge2 to help out at home with even the simplest things.If my mother or father asked me to do something,I would do it:not a problem.But the fact that I always needed to be asked or told to do things-things I could plainly3 see needed doing-undoubtedly bugged4 my parents.What Mom and Dad didn’t realize,though,was that by age ten my resistance5 to chipping in6 even bugged me!