The Blue Day
憂郁時別在悲傷的海裏沈浮
Everybody has blue days.
每個人都有憂郁的日子。
These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.
那些日子真是慘透了，妳覺得心裏亂糟糟的、怨氣叢生、寂寞、整個人徹底的精疲力竭。
Days when you feel small and insignificant,
那些日子總會讓妳感到自己的渺小和微不足道，
when everything seems just out of reach.
每件事情似乎都夠不著邊。
You can't rise to the occasion.
妳根本無法振作起來。
Just getting started seems impossible.
根本沒有力氣重新開始。
On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.
在憂郁的日子裏，妳可能變成偏執狂，覺得每個人都想要吃定妳。
This is not always such a bad thing.
其實情況並不總是那麽糟。
You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!
妳感到灰心、焦慮，可能開始神經質地拼命咬指甲，然後不可救藥地陷入壹眨眼吃掉三大塊巧克力蛋糕的瘋狂！
On blue days you feel like you're floating in an ocean of sadness.
在憂郁的日子裏，妳會覺得自己在悲傷的海裏沈沈浮浮。
You're about to burst into tears at any moment and you don't even know why.
不論在什麽時候，妳總有種想哭的沖動，卻不知道為了什麽。
Ultimately, you feel like you're wandering through life without purpose.
最後，妳覺得自己猶如行屍走肉，失去生活目標。
You're not sure how much longer you can hang on,
妳不知道自己還可以撐多久，
and you feel like shouting, "Will someone please shout me!"
然後妳想大喊壹聲：“誰來壹槍把我打死吧！”
It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day.
其實壹點小事就讓妳壹天都郁悶難當。
You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,
也許只是壹覺醒來，沒有感覺到或者看到自己最棒的壹面，
find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.
發現自己又多了幾條皺紋，又重了幾斤，或是鼻子上冒出了壹個大包。
You could forget your date's name or have an embarrassing photograph published.
妳可能忘記了約會對象的名字，或是有張可笑的照片被登出來。
You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,
妳或許被人拋棄、離了婚，或是被開除，當眾出醜，被刻薄的綽號弄得心亂如麻，
or just have a plain old bad-hair day.
或許只因為妳得整天頂著壹個其醜無比的發型。
Maybe work is a pain in the butt.
也許工作讓妳痛苦得如坐針氈。
You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes,
妳在強大的壓力下頂替他人的位置，
your boss is picking on you,
妳的老板對妳百般挑剔，
and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.
辦公室裏的每壹個人都讓妳發瘋。
You might have a splitting headache,
妳可能會頭疼欲裂，
or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips,
或重心不穩跌個正著，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口幹舌燥，
or a nasty ingrown toenail.
或是指甲長到肉裏頭了。
Whatever the reason, you're convinced that someone up there doesn't like you.
不管什麽原因，妳確定上面有人不喜歡妳。
Oh what to do, what to dooo?
唉，該怎麽辦，到底該怎麽辦呢？
Well, if you're like most people,
嗯，妳可能跟大部分人壹樣，
you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out.
隨便找個東西躲起來，以為事情會自行解決。
Then you'll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder,
結果妳得花掉下半輩子的時間回頭看，
waiting for everything to go wrong all over again.
等著壹次有壹次重蹈覆轍。
All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim.
最後妳會變成壹個易怒的、憤世嫉俗的，或者是 壹個可憐兮兮的、哭哭啼啼的受害者。
Until you get so depressed that you lie down and beg the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs.
最終妳絕望地躺在地上，祈求地球將妳吞沒，或是沈迷在比利-喬的藍調音樂中不能自拔。
This is crazy,
這的確很蠢，
because you're only young once and you're never old twice.
因為妳只能年輕壹次，而且絕對不可能老兩次。