遲來的#靈性週六， 但這篇真的是值得大家一起深思，一起來變得更好吧 😊
Making Time for Development (the personal kind)
必參考文章：自我發展/自我成長
Maybe you've wondered who writes the #spiritualsaturday posts at MMWW. Ready to know the answer? It's...me (Esther) who writes them! Surprised? Yeah, me too sometimes. And I've been missing posts frequently (if anyone who follows Saturday had noticed.) So it just occurred to me today--why? Why is it that we make so little time for spiritual development? And I don't mean spiritual like praying to God necessarily, but I mean spiritual like personal betterment of your values and morals. We schedule time for betterment of our bodies, careers, and relationships, but not time for us to continue becoming better people. But isn't that why we exist, really? To grow?
也許你常會覺得疑惑，妹妹娃娃 #靈性週六 的文章到底都是誰寫的？其實就是妍熙寫的啦！如果有在定時收看靈性週六的人應該就會知道，我已經連續好幾次沒有發表了，所以今天我就在想，為什會我們花在靈性發展的時間這麼少？我指的不是每天向上帝禱告的那種，而是不斷的改進自我的價值觀和道德觀。我們會安排時間讓自己的身體、事業、人際關係更好，但卻沒有花時間讓自己變成一個更好的人。但變得更好不就是我們存在的意義嗎？
I mean, that's the entire point of existence until you reach adulthood. From our very conception, we're motivated by one sole purpose: to grow and develop. So we turn from one cell into ten and then eventually we're more than just a collection of cells, we become organisms. We just keep trying to get better---we grow limbs and brains, we become sentient, we become able to care for others, we learn skills to become better at surviving in life. We just keep doing that, growing and growing, until what though? We reach adulthood and suddenly we're done growing? Clearly, that's not the case.
我的意思是，在我們長大成人之前，去好好的成長、發展、變得更好是我們唯一需要做的，從我們被孕育的那一刻起，從我們還只是單細胞然後慢慢分裂變成多細胞到最後我們變成一個生物，我們都是在成長，慢慢的我們有了四肢，有了大腦，我們開始有認知，有能力去感覺事物，我們開始會在乎別人，也開始學習如何在這個世界上生存，我們就是不斷不斷的去成長，去變得更好，但為什麼長大之後我們卻停止了？很顯然的，事實並不是這樣。
We may stop growing physically but we need to continue striving to be better in everything that we do. We need to be better people--better at our jobs, better at our relationships, and better to the world. But we can't do this if we don't make time for it---awareness takes time to build up, like a muscle or skill. And if you don't practice it, it's all too easy to fall into our comfortable, anesthetic world of busy schedules, social media, medicating ourselves with entertainment, alcohol, toxic relationships, or work. Evidently, this stalls our development. And over time we feel a gnawing emptiness inside that only grows as we age and acquire more material things and experiences. Because we've stopped growing and we need to get back to that. I need to get back to that. How about you?
我們也許會停止生長，但我們必須繼續努力讓我們做的一切都變得更好，我們必須成為更好的人，在工作上、在感情上、甚至是對這整個世界。對這件事情的認知需要時間來樹立，不管是肌肉或是技能，如果你不持續的練習，很容易就會陷入充滿社交媒體、繁忙計畫，那讓人既舒適又麻醉的世界裡，常常用娛樂、酒精、不好的感情、甚至是工作來麻醉自己。很顯然的，這讓我們的成長陷入停滯，隨著時間的流逝，我們會覺得心中一片空虛，因為我們除了年齡的增長、對物質需求慾望的增加、還有經驗的累積，我們其實已經停止成長了，而我們必須繼續成長，連我也不例外，那你呢？
