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anger; sleeping for the first time peacefully。 Dreaming; it appears – of what? Laughing out loud – why?
In the short time he’s been with us; he’s known nothing but pain。 Yet some secret memory is keeping him amused; giving him the courage to take on this life; knowing the suffering it contains。
So – life is a journey; a hazardous voyage of discovery; and we must negotiate our passage past adversity and trauma; undaunted like a stream rippled by jagged rocks on its steady descent to the sea。
But it’s easy to lose heart; especially when you are caught in the bewildering limbo between the death of the old and the birth of the new。
That’s when we have to remember Phoenix; who rose; time and again; from the ashes of the past。 Take fort from the knowledge that we have bypassed the greatest peril of all: that of stagnation。
The ancients looked on each crisis as a blessing: a liberation; the enforced breaking of new ground。 Favourable to them was anything that helped our progress from darkness to light。
There are even those who claim that extraordinary afflictions are not the punishment for extraordinary sins but the trial of extraordinary graces bestowed on a favoured few。
Looking back; you may well agree that some of your worst experiences did in fact carry within them the seed of something good。
Relish the shadows you leave behind。 They add depth and definition。 For expansion; though; look forward: into the dazzling new dimension of the unknown。
You’ll see that there are no endings in life。 Only beginnings。
Childhood 童年(1)
還記得兒時的你是一個怎樣的人嗎:嚴肅、有責任感的?隨遇而安的?貼心溫柔的?極其活潑、喜歡瘋跑的?還是一個時常愛拽著媽媽衣角的膽小的小傢伙呢?
我的童年,就像是一隻趴在牆上的蒼蠅:觀察著、聆聽著、審視著周圍的世界——有些人很好,讓人舒服,他們溫暖而友善,總是帶給人純淨的快樂;而有些人則讓人不安、迷惑,他們虛偽做作,充滿敵意和輕蔑。
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