Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep · TEDx Talks
Jon分享了他从乡村到城市的心路历程，探讨现代生活为何变得复杂。适合练习生活哲理、自我成长和文化对比。
Transcriber: Jelena Vukovic Reviewer: Ivana Korom There is one phrase that I have always wanted to say to everyone in my life.
转录者：叶莲娜·武科维奇 审稿人：伊万娜·科罗姆 有一句话，我一直想对生命中的每一个人说。
That phrase is "Life is easy."
那个短语是“生活本来就是轻松的”。
It's so easy and fun.
这既简单又有趣。
I never thought like that before.
我以前从未这么想过。
When I was in Bangkok, I felt like life is very hard, very complicated.
我在曼谷的时候，觉得生活非常艰难、非常复杂。
I was born in a poor village on the Northeastern of Thailand
我出生在泰国东北部的一个贫困村庄。
And when I was a kid, everything was fun and easy, but when the TV came, many people came to the village,
当我还是个孩子的时候，一切都很有趣、都很简单。但自从电视出现后，很多人来到了这个村庄。
they said, "You are poor, you need to chase success in your life.
他们说：“你很穷，必须努力追求成功。
You need to go to Bangkok to pursue success in your life."
你必须去曼谷，才能在人生中取得成功。
So I felt bad, I felt poor.
所以我感到很内疚，觉得自己很可怜。
So I needed to go to Bangkok.
所以我需要去曼谷。
When I went to Bangkok, it was not very fun.
我去曼谷的时候，过得并不愉快。
You need to learn, study a lot and work very hard, and then you can get success.
你需要努力学习、刻苦钻研，并付出巨大的努力，这样才能取得成功。
I worked very hard, eight hours per day at least, but all I could eat was just a bowl of noodles per meal,
我非常努力地工作，每天至少工作八个小时，但每顿饭我只能吃一碗面条。
or some Tama dish of fried rice or something like that.
或者是一些塔玛（Tama）餐厅提供的炒饭之类的菜肴。
And where I stayed was very bad, a small room where a lot of people slept.
我住的地方条件非常差：只是一个狭小的房间，里面住着很多人。
It was very hot.
天气非常炎热。
I started to question a lot.
我开始对很多事情产生怀疑。
When I work hard, why is my life so hard?
当我努力工作时，为什么我的生活还是如此艰难呢？
It must be something wrong, because I produce a lot of things, but I cannot get enough.
肯定有什么问题……因为我生产了很多东西，但却始终无法满足自己的需求（或者说：我生产的东西远远超过了我的实际需求）。
And I tried to learn, I tried to study.
我努力去学习，努力去钻研。
I tried to study in the university.
我尝试在大学里学习。
It's very hard to learn in university, because it's very boring.
在大学里学习非常困难，因为大学里的课程非常枯燥无味。
And when I looked at subjects in the university, in every faculty, most of them had destructive knowledge.
当我观察大学里的学生时，发现每个院系的大多数学生都掌握着具有破坏性的（或有害的）知识。
There's no productive knowledge in university for me.
在大学里，我学不到任何真正有用的知识（或者说：大学里提供的知识对我而言并没有实际价值）。
If you learn to be an architect or engineer, that means you ruin more.
如果你学会了成为一名建筑师或工程师，那就意味着你会破坏更多的东西（即会对更多的建筑物或设施造成损坏）。
The more these people work, the mountain will be destroyed more.
这些人工作得越努力，这座山就会被破坏得越严重。
And a good land in Chao Praya Basin will be covered with concrete more and more.
昭披耶河流域那些肥沃的土地，将会越来越多地被混凝土所覆盖。
We destroy more.
我们破坏的东西更多。
If we go to agriculture faculty or something like that, that means we learn how to poison, to poison the land,
如果我们去农业学院之类的地方学习，那就意味着我们要学习如何使用有毒物质来污染土地。
the water, and learn to destroy everything.
学会如何利用水来摧毁一切。
I feel like everything we do is so complicated, so hard.
我觉得我们做的每一件事都极其复杂、难以完成。
We just make everything hard.
我们总是把一切都弄得复杂难懂。
Life was so hard and I felt disappointed.
生活如此艰难，让我感到非常失望。
I started to think about, why did I have to be in Bangkok?
我开始思考：为什么我非得去曼谷呢？
I thought about when I was a kid, nobody worked eight hours per day, everybody worked two hours,
我想起了自己小时候的情景：那时候没有人每天工作八小时，大家都只工作两小时。
two months a year, planting rice one month and harvesting the rice another month.
一年中有两个月的时间用于种植水稻：一个月负责播种，另一个月则负责收割。
The rest is free time, ten months of free time.
剩下的时间都是空闲时间——整整十个月的空闲时间。
That's why people have so many festivals in Thailand, every month they have festival.
这就是为什么泰国有这么多节日的原因——每个月都有不同的节日举行。
Because they have so much free time.
因为他们有大量的空闲时间。