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  手機人生   MOBILE PHONE and OUR LIFE   如果沒有手機跟著我到東非的話，這次的一些照片、文章等等，應該就會變成用另外的方式來呈現，重要的事務應該也必須用其他方式來面對及解決吧…… If the mobile phone of mine hadn’t followed me to east Africa this time, many memories would not be captured and shared…. For important matters to be handled by utilizing that phone of mine, I might have sourced other ways…   離開台灣前往東非時，我因為被桃機再度推陳出新的新穎裝置吸引，為了在漂書區閱讀書籍，也為了在同一個區域的造型奇特充電裝置充電，兩件事情同時進行的情況之下，在登機前竟然沒有把充電的手機取回，直到大約二十分鐘後才從沉醉於書海中慢慢「回神」，在登機門預計關閉的前幾分鐘才飛快由充電設備中將手機取回。 When I was about to depart from the airport in my homeland for east Africa, I was much attracted by the new gadgets and services in our airport by lingering around regions where books of a variety of themes could be freely browsed through and mobile phones could be charged comfortably at spaces with much designed thinking. Immersed into stories or pictures of those books, I felt much blessed when I was about to board the aircraft, only to “wake up” by the fact my mobile phone was not...

PRELUDE 前言 不管在哪裡工作，人們好奇的是我們工作時的所得；不管做什麼服務工作，人們有興趣的議題是錢從哪裡來。No matter what kinds of work we do, people are curious about each others' income. Whatever humanitarian actions we partake, people are interested in learning where the budget is from. 有時候我不大確定工作的種類及服務方面的事宜，必須以金錢來界定，其最主要的因素就是，世界很大，人們的工作多元，但不論如何一個人頂多身兼數職，在這樣的景況之下，人們受到智力、能力、才氣等制衡而造成收入的多寡，不過，這種收入是否真的可以定義一個人的潛力發展前景，有待商榷； 在無償服務的世界也是如此，不論多麼想獻身於服務的行動之中，一個人的力量仍然有限，只是，在有侷限性質的範圍當中，找到某個可以服務的區塊中的人民，因為沒有其他實質助益者而開始服務行動時，這種服務行動的廣度與深度到底該如何發展，和這當中所有的人物的觀念及作為有具體甘係，尤其當這些人願意共同開發彼此的潛在可能時，這種服務的回收恐怕並非金錢價值，得以估算。 Often, I am uncertain whether we should define our professions or serving the others based on monetary terms or currencies; as far as I can see, since the world is large, each individual can embark on a variety of jobs which may not be limited or confined by the amount of income when s/he has his/her potential fully developed. Likewise, in the world of helping the others without asking any favors for return, each individual can begin such a...