高三地理地球地图:其实我们都是变态

作者：Sherri

How many times have you seen something that didn’t make sense or witness someone do or say something that you totally disagree with?

How many friends or family members do you have that do things completely differently to how you do them or have vastly different interests than you do?

        有多少朋友和家人，他们的做事方式和你南辕北辙，兴趣和喜好与你毫无瓜葛？

When thinking about these questions how often do you chalk it up to people, circumstances or things just being weird?

         又有多少次，你把这样的问题归咎于人们太过变态，环境和状况太过诡异？

I’m guilty of having done this. Quickly jumping to this conclusion that because I don’t get it, that it’s not how I would do things means they're

weird. I’m pretty sure I’m also the weird one to quite a few people out there. I mean who blogs, right? Who spends many years and a ton of money to get a higher degree and then decides to be a stay at home mom? Who likes corn on the cob but not corn from a tin or frozen? … Okay that last one might be a bit weird but I will defend this until the day I die – they do taste differente

        我很抱歉这么快就下了这个结论。因为我以前一直不明白：人们与我做事方式的不同并

不意味着他们是变态。现在我明白了，其实对很多人而言，我也是个变态。当然我指的是写

博客的这个人。这个花了许多时间和钱得到了更高的学历最终却决定回家看孩子的人。这个

喜欢吃穗上的玉米却绝不沾一点儿罐装或冷冻玉米的人。好吧，最后一个习惯确实有点儿诡

异但我会至死捍卫这个习惯——它们尝起来确实不太一样。

Anyway, a lot of times we are quick to lump things together or dismiss them as weird when they make us uncomfortable, we don’t  understand them, we’re intimidated or insecure.

  不管情况怎样，我们总是很快把事情分类合并然后剔除掉令我们不舒服的部分，我们并不

理解它们，我们像受到恐吓般的不牢靠。

Everyone is different. Everyone will have different ways of doing things, they will have different values and will most certainly have different priorities. The next time you find yourself saying “hmmmm that’s weird” or dismissing someone because “oh they’re so weird” take a minute to think – not weird just different. What works or is normal for one may not be to someone else.

        每一个人都是独特的。每一个人为人处事的方式都不同，每一个人的价值观都不同，每

一个人优先考虑的事也都不同。下一次，当你想说“这件事真变态”或者“这个人真变态”的时

候，请停下来先想一想——那并不是变态而只是不同。甲之蜜糖，或许只是乙之砒霜。

My weird and quirky ways is what makes – Sherri delightfully Sherri (as Gwynn puts it  ).

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