Circles
By Sam
A child drawing a circle may unconsciously know that some day he may jump into it and later he does. I t is strange that the earth is round and the orbit along which it moves round the sun is a circle. We don’t know if the solar system moves round a circle but most probably it does. This divine design has a subtle effect on the smartest creature on earth, the human being. Human societies are circles. E veryone lives in circles. Some circles are within other circles. There is no escape.
一個畫圈的孩子隱約感覺有一天他會跳進去那個圓圈，後來他真的進去了。很奇怪，地球是圓的，它圍繞太陽的軌道也是圓的。我們不知道太陽系是否沿著圓圈運動，很可能是。上天的這種安排給地球上的最精明的動物，人類，產生了微妙的影響。 人類社會也是圓圈。每個人都生活在圓圈裡。有些圈子裡還套著圈子。你無所遁形。
You have no much freedom in a circle. You are conditioned to it. Keep your body in a circle and keep your min d out of it. After work you jump out of this circle and into another circle which may be your own family, your friends, some kind of club or extramarital partner. There is no frontier or deep forest for a recluse to live long enough without being starved to death. E ven a recluse cannot escape from his circle. He is only in a circle of a larger kind. There are thorns in a circle which may hurt you if you are too careless. Some circles are not very comfortable to be in.
在圈子裡你沒有太多的自由，你受制於它。不過，身陷囹圄，心仍可自由，下班後你跳出這個圈子，但又跳入另一個圈子，這可能是你的家人，朋友，某種俱樂部或是婚外情人。現在沒有處女地或深林能讓隱士長期生活而不被餓死。就是隱士也逃不出自己的圈子。那只是一個更大的圈子。如果你不小心，圈子裡的荊棘會刺傷你。有些圈子並不令人愉快。
A master can jump in or out of a circle freely without much difficulty. But seldom does anyone realize that when he jumped out of circle, he will fall into another. He has to. Otherwise he cannot live. Sometimes the wall of the circle is high, and sometimes it is low. In addition, the level of the ground in a circle is not always in parallel with that outside. Sometimes when you are outside the circle, you feel that the wall is high. But when you jump into the circle with much difficulty, you feel disappointed for its shallow ground. Sometimes the wall is low for you but once you jump in you suddenly realize that it takes you quite some time to land, and because you underestimate its depth, it is very likely that you hurt your ankle. The longer you stay in it, the higher the wall will become, and the nearer you get to its center , the farther away you are from its wall. Consequently it is more difficult to jump out. But the older you get, the more likely you are forced to the edge of the circle. When you retire , you are out. You are out of most of the circles. Only one circle is left for you, the circle of your life which you never realize you are in before retirement and you are already at the edge of it. But when you are out of this last circle you jump into another large circle, t he universe. There is no escape.
What you can do with a circle is to cope with it, obey its rules and try to get the most out of it.
高人可以自如的跳出跳入一個圈子。但是和少有人知道，當他跳出一個圈子的時候，他又跳入另一個圈子。他只能如此，否則他無法生存，圈子的圍牆有的高，有的矮。另外，圈子裡的地面也不總是和圈外的地面平行。有時你在圈外時會感覺牆很高。但當你努力跳進去的時候卻感到失望，因為地面太淺。有時你感覺強很高，但一旦你跳進去你突然意識到要想著陸尚需時日。而且由於你低估了它的深度你可能會崴腳。你在圈子裡呆得時間越長，牆就變得越高。你離圓圈的中心越近，離牆就越遠，也就越難跳出。你年齡越大就越可能被逼到圈子的邊緣。當你退休了，你跳了出來。你跳出了 很多圈子。只有一個圈等著你，你退休前沒有意識到的生命圈子，而且你已經到了邊緣。但當你跳出這個圈子，你又進入另一個大圈子，宇宙。你無所遁形。
你能做的就是適應圈子，遵守其規則並充分利用它。
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