게으름은 정체된 물과 같다
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stagnant
[stǽgnənt]
괴어있는
정체 (停滯)된
미국의 중서부 지역인 Utah 주에 큰 호수가 있는데
그 이름은 Salt Lake 이며
그 가까이 있는 도시 이름은 Salt Lake City 다.
미국 동서를 잇는 80번 고속도로를 달리다가
그 호수 가까이 가면 온통 흰색으로 덮혔는데
그 흰색이 바로 소금 (天日鹽)이다.
Traveller to the State of Utah can see a large lake which they can obtain STAGNANT salt
유타 주를 여행하는 사람들은 정체되어있는 소금을 얻을 수 있는
큰 호수를 볼 수 있다.
stagnant 는 경제용어로 많이 쓰인다.
The economy of lots of countries is STAGNANT and will hardly grow next year.
많은 나라들의 경제는 침체되어있고
내년에도 거의 성장하지 않을 것이다.
물론 우리 인간들의 삶에도 stagnant 를 쓴다.
I love those who are not being STAGNANT but working towards their ambition.
나는 (한 자리에) 정체되지 않고
그들의 야망을 향해 나아가는 사람들을 좋아한다.
그리고 이런 의미있는 글도 만들 수 있다.
Life without suffering (or discipline) is passive, STAGNANT and dull.
고통 (또는 단련) 없는 삶은 수동적이고
정체되어있으며 따분하다.
인간에게 꼭 필요한 정서와 사랑은 stagnant와 거리가 멀다
Love as an emotion is not STAGNANT.
정서로서의 사랑은 침체되지 않는다
(정이 없는 쾌락을 위한 사랑은 활발해 보이나
고여있는 썩은 물과 같다).
흐르지 않는 물 같은 사랑이 문제지만
그런 물에는 모기가 번성한다.
Mosquitoes breed in stagnant pools of water.
모기들은 흐르지 않는 물 구덩이에서 새끼는 깐다.
그와 비슷한 교훈 ~
As worms are bred in a STAGNANT pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
벌레들이 고여있는 물구덩이에서 새끼를 치듯
악한 생각은 (정체되어 보이는) 게으름 속에 그렇게 된다.
Don't live a STAGNANT life so that evil mind can't live in you.
악한 마음이 당신 안에 자리할 수 없도록
정체된 삶을 살지 말라
California Eureka
revive a STAGNANT economy
And many think that these countries are stagnant, but they are not.
stagnant Salt is obtained from stagnant lakes
Love as an emotion is not stagnant.
Life without suffering (or discipline) is passive, stagnant and dull.
discipline one's mind
Mosquitoes breed in stagnant pools of water.
I love men who are working towards their ambition and not being stagnant.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
The economy is stagnant and will hardly grow next year.
No matter how the teacher taught the lesson, the students’ test scores remained stagnant and failin
The church there was stagnant and the hospital was small, with only one doctor.
I found I was very stagnant in my life and couldn't seem to move forward.
Salt is obtained from stagnant lakes
If your water has been stagnant for some time, treat it before you drink it.
I don't want to get stagnant in one job, one career or one thing
Rick Hanson Ph.D.
Your Wise Brain
SELF-HELP
Recognize What Is Improving in Your Life
The importance of seeing life as it is and acknowledging progress.
Posted November 20, 2023
Reviewed by Jessica Schrader
KEY POINTS
You may feel stagnant or declining if you don’t recognize what’s improving in your life
See life as it is, particularly your own life, and recognize the progress that is occurring.
Notice how life has changed, such as growing shrubs or more earning power.
Source: Katarzyna Grabowska/Unsplash
Source: Katarzyna Grabowska/Unsplash
There are always things that are getting worse.
For example, over the past year, you probably know someone who has become unemployed or ill or both, and there’s more carbon in the atmosphere, inexorably heating up the planet.
But if you don’t recognize what’s improving in your own life, then you
feel stagnant or declining.
This can foster what researchers call “learned helplessness”—a dangerously slippery slope.
It typically takes only a few experiences of painful entrapment to create it but many times as many counter-experiences to undo it.
stagnant (adj.)
1660s, of water or other liquid, "standing, motionless;" hence also figurative, "sluggish, inert, inactive," from French stagnant (early 17c.), from Latin stagnantem (nominative stagnans), present participle of stagnare "to stagnate" (see stagnate). Related: Stagnancy (1650s); stagnantly.
also from 1660s
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1660s, "cease to run or flow, be or become stagnant, stand without current," from Latin stagnatum, stagnatus, past participle of stagnare "to stagnate," from stagnatum "standing water, pond, swamp," perhaps from a PIE root *stag- "to seep drip" (source also of Greek stazein "to ooze, drip;" see stalactite). The figurative sense of "cease to be brisk or active" is by 1709. Related: Stagnated; stagnating.
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If you don’t recognize whatever is getting better in the people around you, then you might feel more disappointed or despairing than you need to feel—and they might feel unseen, criticized, or ask “why bother?”
If we don’t see the positive trends in our world amidst the negative ones—such as for many people, improved medical care and access to information, and less extreme poverty—then we could get swallowed up by all the bad news, and give up trying to make this world better.
This is not looking through rose-colored glasses. The point is to see life as it is, particularly your own life—including the progress that is occurring.
The Practice
Be aware of the little ways you move forward each day.
Like getting to the bottom of a sink of dishes or to the end of a stack of emails.
Knowing a little more when you go to bed than you did when you woke up. Earning a day’s wages, or a thank you, or a nod of respect.
Then consider a longer time frame: How have you moved forward over the past 12 months? What have you grown, built, and learned? What problematic things have you dropped?
See some of the many ways that your material circumstances are better than they were a year ago (no matter if they have worsened in other ways). Notice any shrubs that have grown, fences mended, new clothes acquired, more earning power, or improved net worth.
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See how things have improved in your relationships. To whom do you feel friendlier, closer, or more trusting today than a year ago? And what’s gotten better in a different sense: stepping back from people who don’t treat you that well?
Recognize the sincere intentions, good efforts, and growing abilities in children you raise or teach and in the people with whom you live and work.
Consider our sweet, soft planet. Given your values, what’s gotten better over the past 20 years? 50? 100? 1,000? 10,000 years? Sure, we face unprecedented challenges. But all the major problems our ancestors had to solve were, by definition, unprecedented when they first appeared.
Would you rather deal with our global issues today, or—looking farther and farther back in time—with Dickensian levels of poverty and misery throughout the 19th century, with millennia of feudal lords, widespread slavery, and commonplace abuse of women and children; or with pervasive hunger and pain and violence in hunter-gatherer bands in which, as Thomas Hobbes put it, life was usually “nasty, brutish, and short”?
THE BASICS
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Personally, I’m tired of the widespread meme—“in these dark times”—however, it gets expressed. It’s ignorant, defeatist, and often used to further an agenda. Every time in human history has been dark in some regards—and bright in many others. In a hundred ways, daily life is better for the average person worldwide than it’s ever been.
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Recognizing progress does not mean overlooking suffering and sorrow, misery and injustice.
In fact, understanding the ways in which some things are getting better helps to bring encouragement and insight to the big pile of things that remain to be done.
We’ve got our work cut out for us. But to keep going, we need to feel we’re making headway. Take heart: zigging and zagging, three steps forward and two steps back, slowly but surely, we can and will make our world a better place.
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