Name: 【TED】ジェシカ・ジャクリー： 貧困、お金、そして愛 (Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money -- and love)
Uploaded: 2015-11-21T22:00:00.000Z
Duration: 18 min 34 s

The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter.

自分の人生を語ることも大切です

I think the way that we participate in each other's stories

お互いの物語にいかに関わって行くかが

when I first heard stories about the poor.

初めて 貧しい人の話を聞きました

Now I didn't hear those stories from the poor themselves,

貧しい人から直接聞いたのではなくて

I heard them from my Sunday school teacher

and Jesus, kind of via my Sunday school teacher.

I remember learning that people who were poor

彼らは いろんな物を必要としていると

food, clothing, shelter -- that they didn't have.

And I also was taught, coupled with that,

that it was my job -- this classroom full of five and six year-old children --

日曜学校に通う5-6歳の自分たちの務めは

これはキリストからのお願いなのです

And then he said, "What you do for the least of these, you do for me."

「最も小さな者への行いは わたしへの行いである」

I was very eager to be useful in the world --

世界の役に立ちたいと思いました

誰もが感じたことのある あの感覚です

And also, it was kind of interesting that God needed help.

初耳でしたが これに貢献することが

and it felt like it was a very important thing to get to participate in.

that Jesus also said, and I'm paraphrasing,

こんなことを言っていたと学びました

貧者は常に共にいるというのです

このことには不満で困惑しました

I felt like I had been just given a homework assignment

that I had to do, and I was excited to do,

but no matter what I would do, I would fail.

どう頑張っても失敗すると言われては

So I felt confused, a little bit frustrated and angry,

混乱するし 不服で腹も立ちます

like maybe I'd misunderstood something here.

何か私が誤解しているように思えて

and to feel negative emotion towards a whole group of people.

不快感を感じるようになりました

I imagined in my head, a kind of long line of individuals

脳裏に浮かんだのは一列に並んだ人々が

that were never going away, that would always be with us.

いつも付きまとうイメージです

They were always going to ask me to help them and give them things,

but I didn't know how it was going to work.

どう役に立つのかがわかりません

And I didn't know what would happen when I ran out of things to give,

差し出すものも尽きたらどうなるのでしょう

especially if the problem was never going away.

まして 永遠に続く問題だというのです

the other stories I heard about the poor growing up

貧困の話をいろいろ聞きましたが

例えば 悲しみにくれて苦しんでいる人たちの

I heard about things that were going wrong in the lives of the poor.

困難に陥る貧しい人たちの話や

I heard about disease, I heard about war --

they always seemed to be kind of related.

互いにつながりがあるように見える

こんな状況であろうと理解しました

that were wrought with suffering and sadness,

苦しみや悲しみや破壊や絶望が

And after a while, I developed what I think many of us do,

こんなふうに反応するようになりました

where I started to feel bad every time I heard about them.

貧困の話を耳にするたびに可哀想に思い

I started to feel guilty for my own relative wealth,

相対的に豊かな自分に罪悪感を覚えるのです

because I wasn't doing more, apparently, to make things better.

十分な貢献をできていないからです

And I even felt a sense of shame because of that.

そのために恥ずかしさも感じました

貧しい人たちの話を 以前のように

こと細かに聞かなくなりました

And I stopped expecting things to really change.

事態が改善するとも思えなくなりました

Now I still gave -- on the outside it looked like I was still quite involved.

割いているように見えたでしょう

買える解決策には お金を出していました

The cost of a cup of coffee can save a child's life, right.

子ども1人が救えるのは事実です

I gave when I was cornered, when it was difficult to avoid

気持ちが追いつめられたら寄付しました

and I gave, in general, when the negative emotions built up enough

哀れみの感情が高まったときも寄付して

他の誰でもない自分の苦しみが

The truth be told, I was giving out of that place,

本当はそんな理由で寄付していました

純粋に希望を抱いての行為ではなく

and excitement to help and of generosity.

援助の心とか親切心でもないのです

日々を過ごす権利のような物を

I was buying my right to go on with my day

and not necessarily be bothered by this bad news.

悲しいニュースに悩まされない権利です

And I think the way that we go through that sometimes

悩みを切り抜けようとするあまり

disembody a group of people, individuals out there in the world.

ある種の商品のように扱ってしまうのは

So as I did this, and as I think many of us do this,

私と同じように 対処した人も多いでしょう

いわば距離を買うようなものです

we kind of buy our right to go on with our day.

日常の暮らしを続ける権利を買うのです

I think that exchange can actually get in the way of the very thing that we want most.

この取引は 一番望んでいるはずの

to really be meaningful and useful in another person's life

役立ちたいという願いを妨げます

つまり簡単に言えば愛の妨げになります

Thankfully, a few years ago, things shifted for me

ありがたいことに 数年前に転機がありました

because I heard this gentleman speak, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

私はムハマド・ユヌス博士の講演を聞いたのです

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