Friday, March 31, 2006

人在风中

                                                      刘心武

          一位沾亲带故的妙龄少女,来拜访我。我注意到她的装扮十分时髦,发型是“男孩不哭”式,短而乱;上衫是“阿妹心情”式,紧而露脐;特别令我触目惊心的,是她脚上所穿的“纽妹贝贝”式松糕鞋。她的谈吐,倒颇得体。但跟她谈话时,总不能不望着她,她那涂着淡蓝色眼影、灰晶唇膏的面容,也使我越来越感到别扭。事情谈得差不多了,她随便问到我的健康,我忍不住借题发挥说:“生理上没大问题,但心理上问题多多。也许是我老了吧,比如说,像你这样的打扮,是为了俏,还是为了‘酷’?总欣赏不赖。我也知道,这是一种时尚。可你为什么就非得让时尚裹挟着走呢?”

          少女听了我的批评,依然微笑着,客气地说:“时尚是风。无论迎风还是逆风,人总免不了在风中生活。”少女告辞而去,剩下我独自倚在沙发上出神。

          前些天,也是一位洁心带故的妙龄少女,飘然而至,来拜访我。她的装束倒颇清纯。但她说起最近的一些想法,比如想尝试性解放,乃至毒品,经理“丰富人生体验”等等,我便竭诚地给她提出了几条忠告,包括要真系自己的童负,无论如何不能“品尝”毒品…… 都是我认定的在世为人的基本道德与行为底线。

          几天后整理衣橱,忽然发现了几条旧裤子,是40年前我最新爱的,裤腿已经磨得灰白,腰围也绝对不能容下当下的我,可是我为什么一直没有遗弃它?它使回想起了羞涩的初恋,同时,它也见证着我生命在那一阶段里所沐浴过的世俗之风。那时“国防绿”的军帽、军服、军裤乃至军用水壶,都强劲风行,我怎能置身于那审美潮流之外?还有两条喇叭裤,是20年前,在一种昂奋的心情里置备的;记得还曾穿着喇叭开度极为夸张的那一条,大摇大摆地去拜访以为前辈;仔细回忆时,那前辈望着我的喇叭裤腿的眼神,凸现着差异与不快,重新浮现在了我的眼前,只是,当时他大概忍住了涌到嘴边的批评,没有就此吱声。

          人在风中,不可抗拒。风自有成因。风既起,风便有风的道理。它来了末叶就预示着它将去,凝固的东西就不是风。风总是多变的,可能总也没来。没预料到的风,却会突然降临。遥远的地球那边一只蝴蝶翅膀一颤,可能在我们这里刮起一阵劲风。费很大力气扇起的风,却可能只相当于蝴蝶翅膀一颤的效应。风是单纯的、轻飘的,却又是诡谲的、沉重的。人有时应该顺风而行,有时应该逆风而抗。像穿着打扮,饮食习惯,兴趣爱好,在这些俗世生活的一般范畴里,顺风追风,不但无可责备,甚或还有助于提高生活情趣;对年轻的生命来说,更可能是多余精力的良性宣泄。有的风,属于刚升起的太阳;有的风,专与夕阳做伴。好风给人生带来活力;恶风,给人生带来灾难。像我这样经风多多的人,岁妙龄人提出写警惕恶风的忠告。是一种关爱,也算是一种责任吧。但不能有那样的盲目自信,即认定自己的眼光判断总是对的。有的风,其实无所谓好或恶,只不过是一阵风,让它吹过去就是了。于是又想起了我衣柜底层的喇叭裤,我为什么再不穿它?接着又想起了那老前辈的眼光,以及他的终于并没有为喇叭裤吱声,。无论前辈,还是妙龄青年,他们对风的态度,都有值得我一再深思体味的地方。

 

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Myself

        I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know I want to be able, as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don’t want to stand, with the setting sun, ANd hate myself for things I have done.

       I don’t want to keep on a closet shelf, A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself, as I came and go, Into thinking that nobody else will know, The kind of a man I really am; I don’t want to dress up myself in sham. I want to go out with my head erect, I want to deservr all men’s respect; But here in the struggle for fame and pelf Iwant to be able to like myself. I don’t want to look at myself and know. That I’m bluster and bluff, an empty show.

      I can never hide myself from me; I see what others may never see, I know what others may never know, I never can fool myself, and so, Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and with conscience free.

                                                                                          ——Edgar A. Guest

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BE

Be understanding to your enemies.

Be loyal to your friends.

Be strong enough to face the world each day.

Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.

Be generous to those who need help.

Be frugal with what you need yourself.

Be wise enough to know that you do not everything.

Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.

Be willing to share your joys.

Be willing to share the sorrow of others.

Be a leader when you see a path others have missed.

Be a follower when you are shrouded by the mists of uncertainty.

Be the first to congratulate an opponent who succeeds.

Be the last to criticize a colleague who fails.

Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not stumble.

Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.

Be loving to those who love you.

 


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Monday, March 27, 2006

Take Time

                                                      Take Time  

                                               Take Time to think—

                                             it is the source of power.

                                               Take Time to play—

                                             it is the secret pf youth.

                                               Take Time to read—

                                         it is the foundation of wisdom.

                                               Take Time to pray—

                                         it is the greatest power on earth.

                                        Take Time to love and be loved—

                                              it is God given privilege.

                                             Take Time to be friendly—

                                             it is the road to happiness.

                                                 Take Time to laugh—

                                              it is the music of the soul.

 

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Classical Clip

HAPPINESS  is accompanied by sorrow, and it would turn sunny after rain as well. If rain remains after rain and sorrow remains after sorrow, please take those farewells easy, and turn to smilingly look  for yourself who is never to appear.
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A Man’s Prayer—Grantland Rice

 

Let me live, oh Mighty Master, such a life as men shall know.                      

Tasting triumph and disaster, joy and not too much woe;

 

Let me run the gamut over, let me fight and love and laugh, and when I’m    

beneath the clover let this be my epitaph:

 

Here lies one who took his chances in the busy world of men; battle luck           

and circumstances fought and fell and fought again;

 

Won sometimes, but did no crowing, lost sometimes, but did not wail, took          

his beating, but kept going, never let his courage fail.

 

He was fallible and human, therefore loved and understood both his fellow              

man and woman, whether good or not so good;

 

Kept his spirit undiminished, never lay down on a friend, played the game until   

it was finished, lived a sportman to the end . . .

 

                                     Talent is Gog given —— Be Thankful

                                     Fame is man given —— Be Humble

                                     Conceit is self given —— Be Careful

 

 

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Classical Clip

AMONG thousands of people, you meet those you’ve met.

Though thousands of years, with the boundlessness of time, you happen to

meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late.

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Classical Clip

for March 21th

A TRUE  love is what doesn’t strive for busyness, for extravagande, for

luxury, and moreover for hokum.

 

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Classical Clip

for  March 20th

EVERYONE  has his inherent ability (power or capacity?), which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness(or inertia?)

 

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Sunday, March 19, 2006

梦,有点儿可怕!!!

最近我的心情比较紧张.好多烦事,考试就系其中一样!! 再加埋前两日知道小小同菲左手,又就林番起我自己噶事!!

琴晚,我同xinnie倾MSN果时又讲起杜文正.可能最近多野林,加上身体又有D 5舒服,所以琴晚训得5系甘好,简直就系辗转反侧.点知,今朝临醒之前,我又发左个梦!!!

我梦见,我系条街到行紧,两旁系D商铺.跟住我就见到杜文正同距噶一个F著住校服企系马路边,面向人行道.甘距地系企系我左手边架嘛,于是乎我米行右边咯,费事有接触!! 点知距见我行过黎,就叫距个F行先,然后就迎面行过黎我哩面.仲要专登行到我隔离,要同我擦身而过甘!!!顶!!! 我见距甘,我米讲左句:”行开啦!”,点知距就讲:”死开啦!” 顶!!距从来未试过甘粗老对我架!!! 甘我米嬲咯,就一手推开距,当时我好大力架!! 然后,距另转头话:”我真系好想打你啊!!”. 跟住我米行番转头,企系距面前,执住距衫领讲:你系米真系好想打我啊?!! 距就话:系啊!! 然后我就讲:好啊,甘我地就以后都5好再见,以后都5再打招呼!! 我当时噶语气非常之重!!!

之后,我就醒左了!! 我当时真系觉得好惊啊!!!点解会甘架!!!!

死啦,我真系好惊距会憎我憎到顶5顺,都黎打我!!!!

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