Builders vs. Wreckers
By anonymous
（往下看中文）

I passed one day through a lonely town
And saw men tearing a building down.
With a ho-heave-ho and a husky yell
They swung at a beam and a side wall fell.

I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled-
The kind you’d hire if you had to build?”
“Oh no!” he chuckled, “No indeed-
The common laborer is all I need.”
“Why I can destroy in a day or two
What builders have taken weeks to do.”

I thought to myself as I went on my way
“Which of these rolls have I tried to play?
Am I the builder who works with care
Strengthening lives by rule and square,
Shaping my peers to a well made plan-
Helping them do the best they can-
Or am I a wrecker who walks around
Content with the labor of tearing down?”

中文翻譯

建設者與破壞者

有一天我經過一個寂寞的小鎮
並看到人們推倒一座建築物
伴隨著沙啞的叫喊聲
他們向一根橫梁揮動
一面牆倒塌了

我問工頭：
「這些人是不是也需要技術訓練
如同建造的那些人？」
「不需要！」他輕笑道：「確實沒有需要，
我只需要普通工人。」
「清拆者一兩天內便完工
建設者需要數週才能完工。」

我一邊走一邊想
我要做哪一個？

是認真工作的建設者嗎
通過有規律和正向方式生活
精心設計的計劃
協助我的夥伴塑造最好的自己

還是我是一個四處走動的破壞者
滿足於清拆別人建造的東西？

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你呢？

你有把寶貴的時間浪費在
對你人生目標毫無建設的事情上嗎？
把負能量對外發放嗎？
Gossip？
搭嘴幫忙摧毀/動搖別人的夢想嗎？

你要做
默默耕耘不斷幫助的人的建設者
還是
喜歡打擊別人摧毀別人生命的破壞者呢

每個人都有權選擇 😊