Sunday, November 18, 2007

I wish you love

送 M 到機場的凌晨下了入冬的第一場雪,回到家還可以再睡一會兒才去上班的,但是在床上怎麼樣都睡不穩,帶著沉重的失落感躺一小時後起來吃早餐,我望著後院草坪上積著的薄雪以及漫天飛舞的雪花,驚覺十一月又快進入尾聲了,而這2007年也快要結束了,先前與朋友討論著將來的計畫,五年前我根本沒有好好的想過五年後今天的我要成為什麼,然而這一陣子我非常認真的思考人生規劃這一件事,有趣的是我發現身邊跟我同齡的朋友也開始想這些事,通常我們說的人生規劃就是在指自己的事業藍圖,但是只有 M 跟我問起我的"生活目標",五年的時間彷彿如一眨眼就過了,那就問十年後的今天你在作什麼呢?回答"我正在某個單位的職位上工作"並不是她要的答案,我頓了一下,知道她要我回答什麼了,她要的答案是除了工作以外的任何事,譬如說跟家人去某地方旅行,正在跟兩個孩子說故事,或是去學某一樣新的才藝。說真的那正是我們很容易忽略的目標,以為很容易發生在身旁,但是捫心自問,最容易得到的卻也是最容易去割捨放棄的,而可笑的是我們都無可避免的去追尋工作上的成就。其實去努力工作真的沒有錯,可是當遇到挫折時我們都希望有人可以安慰一下,而遇到成功的時候我們都情不自禁的想向別人告知,這一切都建構在人與人的互動中,工作似乎可以是一種觸媒來加強互動吧?

最近最想完成的一件事就是讀完那本"Tuesdays with Morrie" (Morrie是一個社會學教授因為ALS即將走向人生的終點,他與學生每週二的人生對話就由作者Mitch紀錄成書),有一段內容讓我感動的熱淚盈眶,Morrie提到"Tession of opposites"[我把原文摘錄如下]:
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted."
"A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." ...
Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. [I指的是作者]
"A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could descrive life that way."
So which side winis, I ask?
"Which side wins?"
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."


先停止哲學思考,來報告近況吧,我忙到連老爸老媽打電話找我都落空,因為被告知有新的統計分析概念,我的論文所有data要重新再跑分析一次,當遇到問題的時候,教授請教的那位專家回答說目前沒有既定的答案,我只有一邊跑分析一邊讀理論,再試著解決技術上的瓶頸,最後推理選擇該用的data,不是我想抱怨,這已經是我重新跑所有統計分析第6次了,原本上個月還興高采烈的計畫把所有章節的草稿年底前寫完,現在真的是進度落後一大步,沮喪極了!!某晚跟室友YT聊天時,她說了一個跟媽媽賴皮要買冰淇淋的故事,我真的也很想來賴皮一下,學蠟筆小新拖著媽媽說不想再繼續跑分析了,然後跟多拉A夢借一個時光機,自動把時間調到defense完成的那一刻......

p.s.想送給M一首曲子,是在我很煩惱的時候停下來亂找音樂,被我從陳年的小野麗莎專輯裡挖出來的"I wish you love"

I wish you bluebirds in the spring
To give your heart a song to sing
And then a kiss, but more than this
I wish you love

And in July a lemonade
To cool you in some leafy glade
I wish you health
But more than wealth
I wish you love

My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never be
So with my best
My very best
I set you free

I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
But most of all when snowflakes fall
I wish you love

But most of all when snowflakes fall
I wish you love
I wish you love

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Thank you, sweetie.
I am not smart enough to know what I want to be in ten years...Still, I am questioning myself about my choice...But someday, I will figure out the answer. And one day...we can smile without regreting our decision...Best wishes for you and always there for you.

23/11/07 10:10  

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