_**RESIGNATION**_ I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes,mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my RRSP statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause........ ......"Tag! You're it." Remember the Simple things in Life. ((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

March 10, 2006

不倒女孩



都一個月前的事了,大家有沒有想起張丹?

冬季奧運如常地沒有正規奧運觸目,張丹的一摔一起,十年八年後還會有人記得嗎?關於整個過程,已很多報道鈙述。事件的精神意義,所有看過片段的人,都會領悟。我要記的,是張丹令我想到,而我又怕自已忘掉的點滴。

‧她能在重重跌倒後,克服心理威脅,忍著痛完成比賽…我覺得是一個運動員在長年累月訓練下的反應。練習時,可能要這樣摔倒好幾次吧。我們看著痛,他們可能都麻木了。能摔成這樣子而麻木,運動員背後的辛酸可見。

‧比賽的音樂是「龍的傳人」,也真夠煽情。我想如果是電影情節的話,導演大概都會嫌這個配樂陳腔濫調,太cliche 了吧,偏偏現實就發生了這樣的煽情畫面。

‧我最羨慕的是雙張之間的親密合作關係,像對方已變成自已的手、腳一般。人摔倒,是不會埋怨自已的手或腳,只會第一時間去檢視手腳的傷勢。這是事業伙伴、朋友,戀人、夫婦都希望能達到的同心同體境界。張昊對張丹的關切,令他變成俊男,內在美就是這麼一回事吧。他們會是一對嗎?那會是另一個美麗幸福的故事了。

‧表演的旁述也甚足細味:先是對二人演出寄以厚望 "technically, the best pair of the world"、後為二人的失手頓足 "it makes my stomach turns",再而為他們在幾分鐘後復賽讚歎 "China is not going to win the Gold tonight, but they have so many reasons to be proud"; 然後得知評分足以拿銀牌時,公正的評論:「評判是否感情用事了?」"I do think the judges are a bit carried away though"。如果沒有前段,只聽後段,這兩位評述員大概要給扣上歧視偏見的帽子了。想一想,有時中國人的民族感情,是太容易受傷了。

這些都是點滴而已。我看了這片段多次仍會眼眶紅。我想,要鼓勵自已,朋友,甚至是小朋友,看一遍張丹2006年都靈冬季奧運的比賽片段會很受用。http://www.6park.com/enter5/messages/10617.html

Comments on "不倒女孩"

 

Blogger ton^chat said ... (8:03 AM) : 

吁,雅典奧運時我也常看到這類令人心酸的場面,當時用el greco的畫寫了一篇,稍後我也會貼出。
我看wiki,張丹和張昊原來都不小了(michelle kwan也是在這個年紀時到達高峰),下一屆冬奧也不知會是誰上場,一個運動員苦練經年,失手固然不幸,能夠有第二次機會完成整套動作實在難得,即使是遺憾也不是完全一敗塗地,總算有個交待(張昊知道得銀時,那喜悅是撿回來的失而復得),像跳水便不可能了,這樣看花樣滑冰還算是較仁慈的運動吧。

 

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