wdds 写了: 2023年 11月 22日 13:30
看到过一句话,经历过苦的人,连笑都不敢大声
哈哈你抄我的!我是看我们旧版id写的。当时我在校版发了个大学刚毕业的优秀女生车祸身亡的新闻,标题是Life Interrupted。以前说过,抄过来:
女生写作很好,读书时就在NPR、New York Times上发表文章,在New Yorker上有blog。毕业时找到New Yorker的editorial assistant工作,正要搬去纽约。当时和男朋友一起开车去参加她爸的生日宴会,她爸说准备好了她最爱吃的大龙虾和生日蛋糕,结果女儿没来,来的是state trooper。男朋友也是同年同校毕业,开车失控,撞到高速护栏上,车翻了好几个跟斗。男友轻伤,女生当场死亡。
女生刚在校报毕业专刊栏发了一篇标题是“The Opposite of Loneliness”的文章,几如谶言:
"...But let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind us. They’re part of us and they are set for repetition as we grow up and move to New York and away from New York and wish we did or didn’t live in New York. I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. …
We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement. …
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have."