以Seneca塞内卡的命运观观国脉、股运和人命

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Seneca
不管你愿不愿意，命运的锭镆列车滚滚向前。
塞内卡

【姑布评议】初看此言，头脑电愣。竟怀疑原版之真无确否了！于是去搜对，发现一句奇妙的译言：
“不愿者，拖曳之——命运如此行事而已。”并有后话：所谓历史必然性的铁律，并不以个人意志为转移，康德曾经慨叹对于这样的历史，只有名之以“大自然的计划”，否则不可思议。

乃知此言大！无论做什么都要顺势、顺时或顺市而为。早数月前我就想，中国的股民如此之多，逐利的资金迟早会将股市捧红，想不到节后出现了一轮独立于世的行情。节前我以为自己抽身而走矣，想不到我是在浪费机会，不过，这仅仅是投机，也无所谓！毕竟，私以为还仅仅是资金的热炒，看不明白也是一种境界！这应该是一个尚未结束的熊市，为什么不能顺之而小炒？可是，我又失去了快速翻身的机会。我真不情愿，但行情图已经描绘出来，我要做的就是向前看，不能在乎错失一轮，置名利于身外！历史就像股市，也滚滚向前，还有不断涨跌的晴雨表，等待着投机分子的进进出出。中国的股市就像中国的经济和政治，已经不能在教科书码对那一双破鞋，我们要做的不仅是与世界同步，而且要让我们自己的生活壮丽多彩；前几周，俺也消费太剧，数百数百地购物，在内心深处感觉中国的消费环境和消费结构在发生惊人的变化，未来的发展不可限量，如此生动的事相，每一个中国公民都应该自信，在科学的引导下正确消费和投资，于国于民于己无不快乐而幸福，这就是我们的历史，不容置疑！

【名家档案】
Seneca on Life
Seneca had a lot to say about life and in a letter to his friend Paulinus, he goes on to talk of those who are overcome by fear and therefore make their lives appear very short.“But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future. When they come to the end of it, the poor wretches realize too late that for all this time they have been preoccupied in doing nothing. And the fact that they sometimes invoke death is no proof that their lives seem long. Their own folly afflicts them with restless emotions which hurl themselves upon the very things they fear…They lose the day waiting for the night and the night in fearing the dawn. Even their pleasures are uneasy and made anxious by various fears, and at the very height of their rejoicing the worrying thought steals over them: ‘How long will this last?’ This feeling has caused kings to bewail their power…”
Posted by Anna at Thursday, August 25, 2005

2 comments:
Anonymous said...
His attitude to life is very sensible. Onr cannot control all of the events surrounding us. It is best to control what we can, and abdicate those things that are outside of our power. People should always realize that they can only influence others superficially, and that most attitudes and desires are embedded from an early age,with scant possibility of change. The key here is working with issues we can influence and being realistic about the limitations on power, And finally, how crucial it is to recognize the destructive power of ego and work to control it accordingly.