I WILL REMEMBER YOU PART B 您(們)是如此令人難以忘懷第二章
在異鄉，仍然於不同的工作環境與人物地景中，感到充盈；所以充盈，乃由於過去所汲取之養份和各界的大力襄贊，銘感五內之外尚祈己身能夠將內裡之充盈幻化為文字與實作之力，遍及四面八方之人事物，雖便個體力道微弱，點滴成塔亦不無可能。
一時之間雖然無法進行太多線上講課相關之事，也懸念著尚未開始討論的英語版本書籍，但一步一步慢慢來也是一種方法。
B Our
Observations Towards the Others
In her novel JOY LUCK CLUB, internationally
well-known author Amy Tan described a scene where a mother, after her
disagreement on certain issues with her daughter, was comforting her daughter by
expressing “I see you,” as the daughter was kind enough to always pick the
worst parts of food, toys, and other things. It meant the mother understood the
daughter despite of their arguments.
In real life, we often walk onto
another side of the same coin, since if we care, we would notice some people,
out of coincidences and many other reasons, have chosen or been put to become
the littlest among all of us, for, just a few days ago, I talked to a person
who migrated from somewhere rural to a big city to work. In our conversation,
he told me that “Most of you look down on people like us who make a living as
labors. You can see from their attitudes, their ways of looking at us. You are
different.”
His words sang loudly in my
mind after our brief encountering: these people always inspire me a lot. They
are incredibly humble. They do not ask much. They are voiceless. It seems they
are meant to be falling into some patterns, or even role models, for us to
examine our own behavioural patterns. For example, on one occasion I was taking
a taxi with another few people from one location to another, and we were asked
to be present at a conference; during the entire taxi ride, people around me
chatted about the work, the presentation, the negative sides of this and
that—it all happened as if the taxi driver were invisible.
“What do you mean? You want
the taxi driver to be seen? By who or by what?” You may ask.
Well, I just feel it could
be more proper if we merely pay a little attention to the others around us,
especially those whose social-economic status may be lower than that of ours. Indeed
it is a cruel world, but is does not mean we should be distant from being warm.
Or, we should not pay too much attention to the privileges we have gained
through life, forgetting many around us may not be that lucky. Take one event
for instance. In a formal occasion, we were informed that someone important was
coming; when the person did arrive, everybody praised that person, admiring and
greeting him by saying that
“Before your arrival, we learned from who and who that
you were coming.”
Upon hearing those words,
the person raised his own level of satisfaction via pointing out that he had
met so many key persons in his business trip this time and wherever he went,
there were people expecting and welcoming him. When he talked about all these,
we congratulated him, expressing how different he must be to have gained so
much attention, which made him extremely elated. At the moment, no one else
mattered to him; all the topics were about him.
However, it all went like a blur.
It was a “blur” since every single thing was about him and him only. Will
people truly respect, remember, and think of him?
Can such a person touch our
heart?
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