The Perfect Day, 최고의 완벽한 날

[samok]

 4월의 봄볕은 따스하기만 하다.

한겨울 꽁꽁 숨겨진 생명들이 꿈틀대는 시기이고...

눈을 들어 보는 곳마다 새로운 태동을 느낀다.

대지(大地) 속의 신비로운 풍경들은 저마다의 삶을 일깨우고... 

개나리가 찾아오는 봄 봄 봄...

이르게 찾아온 대박 행운...

한가로움을 일깨워준 하얀 나비...

봄꽃 개나리는 수줍은 모습으로 찾아오고...

혹시 남이 볼새라...

납작 업드려 제비꽃(violet)이 피었다.

보도블록 사이로 뚫고 나온 삶의 의지.

완벽한 하루를 발표한 프랭크 크레인(Dr. Frank Crane, 1861-1928)은

장로교 목사(Presbyterian Minister)로 신문에 많은 기사를 게재하였다.

삶의 지혜를 알려주는 4분 단상(Four Minute Essays)을 1919년에,

52주 사는 법(52 Little Talks on How to Live)을 1927년에 발표하였다.

The Perfect Day (1922)

DR. EUGENE LYMAN FISK, Director of the Life Extension Institute,

some time ago published a very interesting article in the daily papers

in which he charted out a Perfect Day of Health.

   As all of my readers may not have seen that article, I am taking

the liberty of here passing on some of its main points

and adding a few suggestions of my own.

For I find that people like to be told just exactly what to do

rather than to be given a principle and required to work

it out according to their own judgment.

 Let us, therefore, take up a typical day and from a physical

or health standpoint construct an ideal programme.

1. The first thing to do is to get up in time. Getting up is a matter of habit.

 And it is as easy to form the habit of getting up so that you will

have plenty of time for your morning duties, as it is to form
the habit of lying in bed so long that you have to gulp

a cup of coffee and race for the train.

2. “Get up when you wake up,” was a rule of

John Wesley’s, and it is a good one.

3. Give yourself an air bath. That is, take off all of your clothes

and give your skin a chance to breathe. This will not make you

catch cold, but will keep you from catching cold. The skin

of most of us is too tender and sensitive and needs toughening.

4. Take your morning exercises vigorously

for five or ten minutes while nude.

5. Take a bath, and, if possible, wind up with a cold shower.

Follow this by a brisk rubbing down with a rough towel until

your skin glows with warm reaction. Of course, all this advice is

for healthy people and implies that you mix it with common sense.

6. Clean your teeth thoroughly.

7. Drink a glass of cool water.

8. Dress in clothes that are not too heavy and

are not tight. Wear nothing that pinches.

9. Eat breakfast leisurely. Also cheerfully. Do not

quarrel at breakfast. Start the day with a note of joy.

10. Eat the kind of things and the amount of things that

your intelligence tells you you need for breakfast, and not

what you want. This applies to the other two meals of

the day also.  An animal or a savage may trust to

the instincts. But a civilized man is too far away from

his instincts and is compelled to use his intelligence.

11. Do not hurry on your way to the train. In fact,

do not hurry at all. Hurry implies a certain
deficiency in your plans.

12. When you begin your day’s work at the office

or the store, first of all make out a programme

for the day. Whether you stick to it literally or not,

it is a good thing to have always in your mind,
as it prevents confusion and worry.

13. Do not overeat at lunch. Make the lunch more

a period of recreation and of rest than of feeding.

14. Whatever work you have to do, do it by the day.

That is to say, do this day’s work the best you can

and do not worry about the future, nor grumble about the past.

15. Go to bed at such an hour as will enable you to have

eight hours’ good sleep before getting-up time.

Of course, there are very many other points that could be

brought out. But probably these fifteen suggestions

will help you to come a little closer to making every day
of your life: A PERFECT DAY.

이제부터 자칫하면 늘어지기 오후가 될 수 있다.

춘곤증 여파로 파김치처럼 축축 쳐지는 시기가 찾아 오기 때문...

2009년 급 떠오른 영국의 수잔 보일도 perfect day를 불렀다. 

다 이미 아는 사실들이지만 새롭게 마음을 다잡으면서...

하루를 완벽하게 자신의 것으로 만들어가는 삶이 필요할 것이다.

[GOkma]

The Perfect Day!
하루하루가 아름답고 완벽한 삶은 아주 행복한 삶이겠죠??ㅎㅎ