如果世界是以这样的一个所在,或是这个世界的游戏规则就是这样的一个所在,那么我要套用一句用滥了的矫情的自怨自艾的名句:“The game of life is hard to play, I’m gonna lose it anyway.” 我想我真的很难以一个标准社会人的所在存在于这个世上。我是怎么样的一个人?我始终不清楚。我在不断地转换着原有的观念,但是如果这些观念如此容易被转换,或者说最终被转换了,那我是什么?原来相信着这些已经被现在的我抛弃了的观点的我又是什么呢?原来的我存在于那个时空的意义又是什么?如果一个人偶尔,继而变成易于接受所谓的新观点,新观念了,那会不会使他/她变成一个太容易,太不坚持己见,或者说太没有操守的人?同样的,这样的人有其存在于这个世上的必要吗?如果我就是这样的一个人,我开始质疑自己的转变,我开始怀疑自己的价值观。那我在这个世界上真有存在的必要吗?我的价值观正确吗?当然这是一个傻问题,价值观从来没有正确与否的说法。
“You hurt my feelings.” “I’m a human being, I have feelings, ok?” 这是在日常生活中当老美们感情受到伤害的时候爱说的话,不知道为什么中国人好像就没有表达自己feeling的口语化短句。“我觉得你伤害了我的感情。”“我也是有感觉的人阿。”这种话说出来怎么听都觉得好像在演琼瑶片很酸很书面。可能是由于中国人太内敛不善于表达自己的缘故,所以我们好像不太有关于feeling的表达方式,一旦谈起自己的感觉总觉得很怪很矫情。
25岁生日后不久,我也终于拿到了每个大龄未嫁女青年都会拿到的友情”30岁约定”的settling offer,也就是:如果到了30岁我还未嫁你还未娶我们就凑作堆算了。讽刺的是,这位蓝颜知己远在中国大陆并且正处于一段committed relationship中…其实我知道他只是友好的来安慰下久旱无甘露的许同学,在中文语境下,我还是很灵的。不知道怎么的,就想起”人生得意须尽欢,莫使金樽空对月”这一句古诗。李太白同志的这首「将进酒」,现在读才有些许感觉,高中的时候根本就没学进去,只是背出来能通过”古诗默写“部分的题目就行了。昨天的event上,又有老美问我你将来想干什么,每个老美都很爱问这种问题。碰到这种问题我真的觉得很难回答,我想干什么并不能决定我能干什么。作为一个中国孩子,很少有人能选择做自己想做的事情。我很幸运,爸妈让我自己选了大学的专业。但是有时候我又会想,如果当时我听了爸爸的话选了会计学,我现在的人生会是什么样子?朝九晚五在某accounting firm上班,或者飞来飞去出差,又或者现在在这里读着b school,那就跟90%的留美中国学生一样了。那是我不想看到的局面,我还是不想跟大多数人一样。Luke跟我说:”It’s a good thing to be different. It’s the different people that end up creating worthwhile art.”但是我可以吗?有时候我常常会有这种感觉:我觉得我自己是樱木花道,最后发现其实我是木暮公延…这种感觉糟透了,每当有这种感觉的时候,我什么事情也做不了,只能feel sorry about myself。所以答案是,我还是不知道我将来想干什么…究竟有没有人像我这样的,25岁了还在迷茫不知道自己将来到底想干什么?
It’s all about feelings.不知道大家有没有这样的感觉,在厕上时间久了(原谅我,大王喜欢用如厕说事),双脚麻木之后继而就没感觉了,好像你变成了没有脚的人,什么也感觉不到了。然后你挣扎着爬起来,处理完个人卫生问题,好不容易用两只手像瘫痪病人一样挪着两只脚回了椅子上。这个时候你还是感觉不到你的腿,约莫1分钟后,双腿突然变态的痛到好像有千百只虫子在咬你似的。这个时候,你什么也不想做什么也不能做,只想麻木疼痛通通都消失换回你正常的双腿。约莫2分钟以后,差不多你的腿就回来了,这个时候世界没有变美好,只是舒了口气回到了地球的感觉。这就是我现在生活的全部感觉,麻木很久很久,突然开始疼痛,然后又回到地球。如果你问可以停止这个循环吗?那我回答你,你能停止个人排泄吗?然后你会说,那你可以改变如厕的方式,不要坐那么久等到脚麻了再起来的。那我回答你,如果坏习惯这么容易改,我早成佛去西方极乐世界了…
Last Night I took my bike to the airport surroundings.
I got caught by the lights, they were trembling in blue.
And my skin was cool and my heart sang, and when I said to myself that I will never go down.
When I got lost the last time, I wasn’t feeling at all. I wasn’t feeling at all. I wasn’t doing no good.
I had a hole in my heart. I had no blood to my head.
Yes I was going so low that I was gonna give up.
And you, you were all that I wanted. You were all that I wanted. You were all that I wanted.
I took the fastest way down when I surrendered this time, I wasn’t feeling no good I took the easy way out.
The last pain got away when I gave up myself, I bought a ticket to hell when I met up with you.
I wasn’t doing no good. I had no work to be done, and the money I earned wouldn’t end up too soon.
So I had the time to do wrong, I had the time to go on.
I’ve got a hole in my head and a hole in my heart.
And you, you were all that I wanted. You were all that I wanted. You were all that I wanted.
“25? You’re just a baby!” Steve said that to me after he heard my answer to his “how old are you” question last night. He is turning 30 next month, and he is a little scared about that. However, he doesn’t know that turning 25 for a Chinese girl is just as scary as turning 30 for an American guy.
“25 is a good year, at least it was for me.” Luke told me that last midnight, technically this morning. But I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a tough year for me. Just graduated from school, no job, no boyfriend, no nothing…I just heard that my best girlfriend back in China is in a committed relationship right now. She is the girl that told you: “Relax, I’m still single, at least you have me.” Now she is going to get married soon. Wow, the world is changing too fast. Looks like I’m the only one who still living in my own dream.