Three Days to See(11)
I who am blind can give one hint to those who see ―― one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.
And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow.
Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense: glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful.
看見(jiàn)東西的三天
我們大家都讀過(guò)一些令人激動(dòng)的故事,這些故事里的主人公僅僅活在有限并且特定的時(shí)間內(nèi),有時(shí)長(zhǎng)達(dá)一年,有時(shí)短到24小時(shí)。但我們總是有興趣發(fā)現(xiàn),那命中注定要死的是那些有選擇自由的人,而不是那些活動(dòng)范圍被嚴(yán)格限定了的判了刑的犯人。
這樣的故事讓我們思考,在相似的情況下,我們?cè)撛趺崔k,作為終有一死的人,在那最終的幾個(gè)小時(shí)內(nèi)安排什么事件,什么經(jīng)歷,什么交往?在回顧往事時(shí),我們?cè)撜业绞裁纯鞓?lè)?什么悔恨?
有時(shí)我想到,過(guò)好每一天是個(gè)非常好的習(xí)慣,似乎我們明天就會(huì)死去。這種態(tài)度鮮明地強(qiáng)調(diào)了生命的價(jià)值。我們應(yīng)該以優(yōu)雅、精力充沛、善知樂(lè)趣的方式過(guò)好每一天。而當(dāng)歲月推移,在經(jīng)常瞻觀未來(lái)之時(shí)日、未來(lái)之年月中,這些又常常失去。當(dāng)然,也有人愿按伊壁鳩魯?shù)男艞l“吃、喝和歡樂(lè)”去生活。(譯注:伊壁鳩魯是古希臘哲學(xué)家,他認(rèn)為生活的主題目的是享樂(lè),而最高的享受唯通過(guò)合理的生活,如自我控制才能得到。因?yàn)樯钕硎艿哪康谋贿^(guò)分強(qiáng)調(diào),而達(dá)此目的之手段被忽視,所以伊壁鳩魯?shù)男磐浆F(xiàn)今變?yōu)樽非笙順?lè)的人。他們的信條是:“讓我們吃喝,因?yàn)槊魈煳覀兙退劳觥保^大多數(shù)人還是被即將面臨死亡的必然性所折磨。[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
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