2015 (27)
What is love? Shakespeare tells us that love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. I'm only ten and have yet to experience great love, so I chose to write about the only love I'm familiar with - the love my parents share. It's not a new love filled with burning passion. My sister says they don't even French kiss anymore. But it's the little things they do for each other that tells me what love is. Like in the car when my mom puts her hand on the back of my dad's neck and massages it. Or when my dad warms up my mom's car and scrapes the ice off the windshield on cold mornings. And how they've learned to communicate with each other using their own special language. It's true we don't have a lot of money, but I like to think even if we did, my parents would still be at home hanging out together. Of course, in a much nicer house with a Jacuzzi soaking tub. If you ask people what they think are the greatest love stories, they'll say Romeo and Juliet or Hermione and Ron Weasley. And those are fine. But, if you ask me, great love stories can be small like my mom and dad's.
这是美剧《the middle》里十岁小男孩儿Brick 做的学校作业。 试着翻译成中文,但觉得还是英文读起来更流畅。
究竟什么是love? 这世界已经有众名家们给出了各种理论见解,光爱的名言一找一大堆,比如:真正的爱就要把疯狂的或是近于不健康的东西赶得远远的(柏拉图)。比如 爱,就得把所爱的人的幸福置于自己的幸福之上(美国剧作家 盖伊·博尔顿 《雪莱情史》)。 比如 爱是生命的火焰,没有它,一切变成黑夜(罗曼·罗兰)。比如爱是美德的种子( 但丁)。 再比如爱是理解的别名(泰戈尔),等等等等。 但我好象更喜欢十岁小男孩Brick “童眼看世界”看到的那天真朴素的爱。 其实爱挺简单,用不着搞得那么复杂,深奥。
如果问我爱是什么? 我也会想到罗密欧与朱丽叶,梁山伯和祝英台,但那种生死相许的爱离我们太遥远。所以我还是说说我们这些普通人的普普通通的爱。这些爱就存在于我们每天的生活中,但它太不起眼,太司空见惯而被人们忽略了。这种爱是你生病时他送来的一杯水和一片药, 这种爱是他领孩子比赛回来你仔细准备的一桌热腾腾的饭菜,这种爱是他坐飞机出差你没及时接到他电话时的焦虑担忧,这种爱是你不顺心时大喊大叫时他宽容的一笑,这种爱是你们对孩子的爱护和责任,这种爱更是双方对婚姻的尊重。这种爱不浪漫但温暖实在,在我看来这才是世界上最伟大的爱。
爱情是奢侈品,而且是金钱买不来的奢侈品, 能拥有是运气。 爱情还是易耗品,科学研究不都显示爱情的保鲜期只有三个月吗? 所以对我们这些凡胎俗子来说,也许平平淡淡才是真。
“老婆/老公我爱你,就像老鼠爱大米。”