Name: 人生は幸せになるためにあるのではない (Life is Not About Being Happy)
Uploaded: 2025-04-29T09:49:51.000Z
Duration: 4 min 14 s
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様態の副詞

We typically assume that the ultimate aim of all our efforts is to have a happy life.

私たちは通常、すべての努力の究極の目的は幸せな人生を手に入れることだと思い込んでいる。

分詞構句

And judged on this basis, many of us have to admit, in the silence of our minds, that we're not really doing very well. There's so much that every year, and perhaps almost every day, comes along to spoil our ambitions. There's a power struggle at the office, there's a problem in our families, our friends feel superficial or disengaged, our anxieties don't abate and our relationships are scratchy or distant. Our difficulties generate a basic layer of misery, but then a secondary layer is swiftly added to it, caused by an underlying sense that our unhappiness represents a fundamental violation of life's true purpose. Not only are we unhappy, we are unhappy that we are unhappy, in the light of our tightly held belief in the possibility of a state of enduring satisfaction. We're both sad and crushed that we have failed at the single most important goal open to all sane and ambitious humans.

その上で判断すると、私たちの多くは、心の静寂の中で、自分たちがあまりうまくいっていないことを認めざるを得ない。毎年、いやほとんど毎日、私たちの野心を台無しにするようなことがたくさんある。オフィスでの権力闘争、家庭内の問題、友人たちの表面的な感情や無関心、不安はおさまらず、人間関係は傷ついたり離れたりする。私たちの困難は、基本的な不幸の層を生み出すが、不幸は人生の真の目的に対する根本的な違反であるという感覚が根底にあるため、それに二次的な層がすぐに加わる。私たちは不幸であるだけでなく、永続的な満足の可能性を

程度の副詞

It's in such moments of knotted misery that we may gain some relief from reframing our situation. While we may not be able to overcome our burdens themselves, it does lie in our power to alter what these burdens have to mean to us. We may not have to take them as proof of our stupidity or ill-adjustment. They can be signs that we're destined to have interesting lives rather than calm ones, lives marked by a high degree of exploration, psychological understanding and striving rather than settled certainty and equilibrium, what we lack in terms of contentment we may make up for in terms of insight and experience.

そのような結びつきの強い惨めな時にこそ、状況を捉え直すことで救われることがある。重荷そのものを克服することはできないかもしれないが、その重荷が自分にとって何を意味するのかを変えることはできる。重荷を自分の愚かさや不適応の証拠とみなす必要はない。重荷は、私たちが平穏な人生ではなく、興味深い人生を歩む運命にあることを示すサインであったり、定まった確信や平衡ではなく、高度な探究心や心理的理解、努力によって特徴づけられる人生であったりする。

We, the often troubled ones, the typically anxious ones, the ones who frequently reach the end of a day as exhausted and shaken as if we'd crossed mountains, we might judge our complicated situations with a new, rueful kind of pride. We belong to a distinctive and in its way estimable cohort. We're always going to find a cloud on our horizons. We'll never spend more than half an hour before being visited by some kind of distemper. We're never going to accept things as they are or make totally wise choices around love or work.

私たちは、しばしば悩みを抱え、典型的な心配性であり、まるで山を越えたかのように疲れ果て、震えながら一日の終わりを迎える。私たちは個性的で、それなりに立派な集団に属している。私たちの地平線にはいつも雲がある。私たちは30分以上過ごしても、何らかの病気にかかることはないだろう。物事をありのままに受け入れたり、恋愛や仕事に関して完全に賢明な選択をしたりすることはない。

But this doesn't perhaps have to be the measure of everything. We don't need to be constantly offended by our agitations. Our day-to-day troubles don't have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives. Given where we've come from and how we're constituted, we were never going to be happy in any obvious way. But perhaps a good life can in the end be compatible with being fairly perturbed most days of the week. Perhaps it doesn't matter that a relationship has failed once more. Perhaps it isn't appalling that our business doesn't deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job. We've stretched ourselves, we've learned to raise our voices, we've developed courage. We don't have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract, but as the logical and immovable consequences of our stubborn and subtle natures interacting with the complexities of existence. We're sometimes frightened into reorienting our lives by being asked to contemplate how we might feel about them from the vantage point of our deathbeds. But if on this bed we were to look back at a rollercoaster of emotions and events, we might have got married for the fifth time recently, we might smile to ourselves and, to the beeping of the heart monitor beside us, say with wisdom and compassion, it wasn't a calm life for sure, it wasn't for the most part even a happy one, but heaven knows it was a truly and properly interesting one. And with this as our measure, we might meet our end with all the satisfaction and self-acceptance we could hope for.

しかし、これがすべての尺度である必要はおそらくない。私たちは常に憤慨する必要はない。日々の悩みを人生の価値を判断する基準にする必要はない。私たちがどこから来て、どのように構成されているかを考えると、私たちは決して明白な形で幸せになることはない。しかし、おそらく良い人生とは、結局のところ、一週間の大半の日がかなり動揺していることと両立しうるものなのだろう。おそらく、人間関係がもう一度破綻したことは問題ではない。ビジネスで以前の仕事のようなリターンが得られないことに愕然とすることもないだろう。私たちは自分を伸