美文賞析:當我老了
還記得小時候頑皮的你嗎？還記得那時媽媽的諄諄教導爸爸的嚴厲批評呢？還記得你大聲地哭泣安慰你，擦掉眼淚的那個人嗎？孩子，當我老去時，請試着瞭解我。
Dear son...
孩子…
The day that you.see me old and I am already not， have patience and try to understand me …
哪天你看到我日漸老去，身體也漸漸不行，請耐着性子試着瞭解我……
If I get dirty when eating… if I cannot dress… have patience.
如果我吃的髒兮兮，如果我不會穿衣服……有耐性一點……
Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.
你記得我曾花多久時間教你這些事嗎?
If， when I speak to you，I repeat the same things thousand and one times…
如果，當我一再重複述說
Do not interrupt me… listen to me
同樣的事情…不要打斷我，聽我說….
When you were small， I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…
你小時候，我必須一遍又一遍的讀着同樣的故事，直到你靜靜睡着……..
When I do not want to have a shower，neither shame me nor scold me…
當我不想洗澡，不要羞辱我也不要責罵我……
Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented， in order that you wanted to bath…
你記得小時後我曾編出多少理由，只爲了哄你洗澡…..
When you see my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile…
當你看到我對新科技的無知，給我一點時間，不要掛着嘲弄的微笑看着我
I taught you how to do so many things… to eat good， to dress well… to confront life…
我曾教了你多少事情啊….如何好好的吃，好好的穿…如何面對你的生命……
When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation…
如果交談中我忽然失憶不知所云，
let me have the necessary time to remember…
給我一點時間回想…
and if I cannot do it，
如果我還是無能爲力，
do not become nervous…
請不要緊張…..
as the most important thing is not my conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me…
對我而言重要的不是對話，而是能跟你在一起，和你的傾聽…..
