摘自光明日報
張慶祿 著
中國文學史上有一個邯鄲夢的故事,我很是喜歡。
故事是說,一位書生上京考功名,走到邯鄲道,疲憊不堪想休息,有一老頭兒正把黃粱米洗好,準備下鍋做飯,就把枕頭借給他睡覺。書生靠在枕頭上睡著了,做了個夢。
夢中書生考獲功名,中了進士,娶妻生子,之后更當了宰相,40年富貴功名,威風一時,不料,后來犯了罪,被拉去砍首,書生一驚醒來,老頭兒的黃粱飯還沒煮熟。
老頭兒對他說,40年的功名,很是過癮吧。書生想老頭兒之其夢境,必是仙人,于是不考功名,跟老頭兒學道去了。
這個夢寓意,人生如夢,富貴似浮云,功名利祿轉頭空,叫人不要執著于塵世的功名。而我倒是羨慕書生可以有兩個人生,他活了40年后,想來卻發覺只是黃粱一夢,可以再繼續另一個人生。
而我們呢,則沒有這個機會。
一年的時間太長,一生的歲月太短。人生匆匆,晃眼間,我們就老去,死去,沒有足夠的時間去走更多的路,看更多的人生風景,見更多的人生百態,切切實實的品嘗人生的滋味。
是的,只有一個人生是不夠的。人生有太多的可能性,不過,由于只有一個人生,生命有限,我們只好做出選擇,走其中一條路,錯過其他更漂亮的人生風景,留下為選擇的路。這實在是一大遺憾。
美國詩人弗羅斯特有一首詩,叫《未選擇的路》,說的也是這種遺憾與感嘆。
詩中大意是說,一片樹林里分出兩條路,我兩條路都想走,然而我只能做出一個選擇,走其中一條路。原想留帶他日在走另一條,可是我知道路徑延綿無盡頭,要在回返,恐怕無望。
我們人生路沒得回頭。邯鄲夢故事中的書生則可以。他在夢中走過功名之路,醒來之后,踏上學道之途。兩種人生截然不同,沿途的風景也各異。這名書生無疑是幸福的。
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
-- Robert Frost --
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
-- Robert Frost --
adui.. [ the road was not taken ] lor.. LOL!
ReplyDelete如果我們每一次都想把兩條路走完,那我們的人生豈不是有很多路要走?我們豈不是很累?與其這樣,不如認真地走完自己所選的路,用心的欣賞沿途的景物,精彩的完成自己的旅程。最重要的是,不要后悔自己的選擇,應該努力地把絕望變成希望。
ReplyDeleteOwh.. I noticed my typo error d..
ReplyDeleteokay is [ the road not taken ]
paiseh lurr..
hmm..
weiyin, err..meaningful ar..
that's all?
haha
人:一路分兩路··
ReplyDelete人之所以寫成“人”,
就是命中注定要面對抉擇。
生:有許多分叉組成的主路··
一生中有許多的過客,
什么時候介入,什么時候離開,
并不在掌控中。
唯有珍惜,
唯有珍惜所做出的抉擇,
唯有珍惜一路上的過客,
唯一能對自己負出的責任-珍惜“人生”