"a man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
- love in the time of cholera
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
回去
星期天晚上跟 Bastien 食晚飯,在銅鑼灣吃台式麵,一人一杯珍珠奶茶。靠窗的座位可以望到鬧市的人來人往。飯後,他說,要到許留山食甜的。
自從去年回到法國以後,這好像已經是他第三次回港。對,「回去」法國,「回來」香港,兩地也是「回」,他說,每次飛機降落香港機場,都有回到家來的感覺。待久了,又會想念法國。聽起來好像妻子和情婦似的,我笑說。或者真的要離開了,方能在距離與時間之中體驗到感情。人如是,物如是,地方亦如是。尤其是香港這地方,長久待在這裡會有一種水深火熱的窒息感,遠走他方,又逼不得已的念著她擠擁的好。想起一句舊歌詞:也許分手這條路,擠迫的懷抱,不夠讓我高攀進內才摔倒。
他這次回來,一留十天,是為張羅打點在港創業的事宜。一個終於的決定。天下之大,世界之美,風景處處驚鴻,旅人可慷慨動情,但使得人落地生根,稱之為家,又是另一回事。一個人的去留並非旅行,未必事事如願稱心,除了現實環境,還有很多因素得考慮。很多聚散離合,是偶然亦非偶然。說不清的,都一一推到緣份身上好了。
人生之哀哉,莫過於半生緣一句「回不去了」。如果有一個地方可以回去,此時不行,更待何時?
自從去年回到法國以後,這好像已經是他第三次回港。對,「回去」法國,「回來」香港,兩地也是「回」,他說,每次飛機降落香港機場,都有回到家來的感覺。待久了,又會想念法國。聽起來好像妻子和情婦似的,我笑說。或者真的要離開了,方能在距離與時間之中體驗到感情。人如是,物如是,地方亦如是。尤其是香港這地方,長久待在這裡會有一種水深火熱的窒息感,遠走他方,又逼不得已的念著她擠擁的好。想起一句舊歌詞:也許分手這條路,擠迫的懷抱,不夠讓我高攀進內才摔倒。
他這次回來,一留十天,是為張羅打點在港創業的事宜。一個終於的決定。天下之大,世界之美,風景處處驚鴻,旅人可慷慨動情,但使得人落地生根,稱之為家,又是另一回事。一個人的去留並非旅行,未必事事如願稱心,除了現實環境,還有很多因素得考慮。很多聚散離合,是偶然亦非偶然。說不清的,都一一推到緣份身上好了。
人生之哀哉,莫過於半生緣一句「回不去了」。如果有一個地方可以回去,此時不行,更待何時?
Monday, July 5, 2010
maybe.
i don't know if i should be feeling content, anxious, grateful, disappointed, settled or upheaved. maybe all at once like a mixed salad. my path crossed with a lot of people. some of them stayed with me. and i have decided that i am to stay with them, too. but most of them left in blunders that can't be traced. i am not superstitious but i guess fate must have interfered at least once in a while if not always. maybe it is not fate, at all. people name it this way, but a power as unpredictable as such can't be as predictable and defined as a word like this. maybe it is the bananas that have the power, maybe the cats.
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