Sunday, October 18, 2020

Amor Fati

“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
- Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

今年十月份读的一本书,挺温暖的,而且很适合喜欢沉浸于小遐想的自己。如果把自己想活的人生都活了一遍,最后会选择什么样子的归宿呢?这个其实就是用一个思想实验在问自己:到底怎么样的人生才是自己想要的?

作者似乎也经历过抑郁,所以可以很细腻的描写出人们在那种情绪下的绝望感。而如何让一个人从绝望走向希望? To feel love, to see hope and potential. The world does not have to change a single thing to make you better, you just need to have a different perspective. This is a mind trick. We actually don’t need to experience all these possibilities, we just need to be able to imagine the potential, that’s all.

这又涉及到了另一个课题:如何活在当下?我们有时候就是因为想的太多了,所以常常忘了用感官去体会生活给我们带来的涟漪与灵感。

“You don’t have to understand life, you just need to live it.”

And yes, there needs to be a balance here too.

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Dear You and the Boy

听着陈珊妮的歌,我又陷入了沉思和回忆。回忆第一次在大学的时候,山脚下的女生宿舍里,听着她的离别曲。当时的空气有点凉,参杂着松柏的气味。为什么会喜欢陈珊妮的歌,因为觉得有点古灵精怪,有种说不出的味道。或许是那自由散漫,独立独行的特质,可以让人沉迷。而就是这样子的歌,让我想到了当时的自己。当时跟她的歌有着共鸣的那个自己。所以我一直觉得自己是富有的,因为这些回忆,在某个不经意的时刻就让我活了过来。

Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Bridges of Madison County

在朋友的推荐下,无意的看了这个电影。然后才知道,这竟然就是爸妈年代的经典 -《廊桥遗梦》。1995年的电影,在25年后的某个早上,竟然可以让我哭的稀里哗啦。也许这就是电影存在的原因。让我们可以去体会另一个人的心境,去感知情感与生活的不朽。

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”

― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's

(这首诗让我想到了自己在摩洛哥沙漠里的那个晚上。没有人烟,没有帐篷。只有自己和那个赤裸裸的宇宙。)

Monday, May 11, 2020

改变

我可能要换工作了。当这一天越来越可能发生时,我心中竟有种莫名的平和。好像一切都是注定的,事情本来就应该这么发生一样。

电话的另一头,他问我:你想清楚了吗?

我不加犹豫平静地说了这几个字:想清楚了。

之前也有好几次跳槽的机会,但总是觉得时机不对,或者因为其他原因没去成。不过事实证明当时没去的那些地方都是正确的选择。所以当这个机会来临的时候,我选择顺势而行。


最终可以发生的都是缘分。