_**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 24, 2006

「西藏七年」

(寫這個的時候想:好書跟好看的書有沒有分別?原因是「西藏七年」這書我覺得好看,但又覺得它跟「好書」有一點距離。)

"Seven years in Tibet"的作者Heinrich Herrer於今年一月逝世,帶著一個外國人對西藏最原始的美好回憶離去。

書的篇幅其實並不如電影般帶著較多的個人自傳原素。我最難忘的是佔了全書近半篇幅,有關他徙步由印度邊境走到拉薩,用了二十一個月的歷程。

他和他的同伴非常十分有可能是世上唯二個見過西藏最完貌的外國人。他的旅程險惡艱苦,但在荒漠原始的大地上見過最壯觀美麗的四季景象,領略過西藏人純真的友情,遇上地方官員忽冷忽熱的對待。他描述的見聞令人神往,全書平實描寫,沒有花巧文字,也不見扭捏的技巧,令我想,真實的畫面有可能更美。

幸好他在抵達拉薩後千方百計的找到一些攝影器材和菲林,拍下了很多拉薩當時的面貌,出版的照片集 Lost Lhasa 無論我甚樣搬家,也不會捨棄。Amazon 現在也只有二手的三本了。這批在一九四三至五零年拍的照片讓我看到很多西藏已失去了的事物…布達拉宮前的大唐嘉畫,拉薩城的古老城門等。中共一視同仁,如拆掉北京古建築般拆,你不能算它偏私。

如真想看看無邊際的高山草原,黑白對照的山峰,古老的未沾染外國文明的西藏,只有在這些照片了,你看現在布達拉宮前的廣場多醜。搭通鐵路後,西藏原始面貌將消失得更快,我們會在四千米的高山草原上見到娃哈哈膠樽,惡夢之最是見到麥當勞。唉…Herrer 真幸運。

ps. Herrer 書中描述,他在荒涼的西藏走了廿一個月的路,到了拉薩城外,山路上拐一個彎,乍見布達拉宮澶立在面前,畫面令他震動不己…

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