Parable for Procrastinators

Quoted and recited from http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.  There was a job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

有四個人，他們的名子分別叫做沒有人，任何一個人，某個人，所有的人。這是一個關於這四個人的故事。有一件事情需要完成。所有的人都很確定某個人會去把它完成。這件事情任何一個人都可以完成，但是就沒有人做。某個人就生氣了，說這是所有的人的責任。所有的人都覺得任何一個人都可以做，但沒有人了解所有的人都不想做。最後所有的人就將這件事怪罪到某個人身上，結果沒有人做了任何一個人都可以做的事。

真是好棒棒。