原来多伦多
心中满载的沧桑, 只有找到倾诉的出口才能得以解脱
最近的一段时间心里一直堆积着很多事情却苦于没有时间静下下来记于笔端. 其实也就是一个普通的日子却是我的生日罢了, 对于一个快要告别二字头的年华来说实在没有多少值得庆贺的,只是不慎被关系好的几个客人知道了, 居然在那天先后来了几十人跑来向我祝贺, 忽然说的老外实在简单快乐, 什么卡片,彩票, 花草, Terry Bear, 衣服, 甚至拥抱和亲亲面颊都是可贵的礼物, 一位常客甚至送来了亲手做的矩形蛋糕,上面插上精致的皇冠和蜡烛实在是漂亮极了, 当大家异口同声的唱起生日快乐,Lydia时真是非常感动,原来人和人的相处就是这般的简单,无论我们从何处而来, 我们的文化根基是何等的不同,只要我们互相尊重,彼此关爱, 我们就会分享无尽的快乐. 开店快两年, 第一次感受到如此的成就感, 不光在于我们从呀呀学步开始学会生存,更在于我们和每个种族,各种文化背景来的人们都能够相处融洽, 这么财富是任何金钱都无法买到的.
二十九岁的那一天, 我会心的笑了!
From this moment, I name myself African Violet not only because this is the special gift I got on this special day, but because the story of this amazing flower. The African Violet is originally from Europe, during the colonization age, some European aristocrat tried to bring the plant to Africa, but they failed to grow up in the new land because of the hot weather and dry soil, later on, after generation and generation, through the elaborated effots from both European and African people, this little flower started to grow bit by bit, adopting to the circumstances in African. Up to now, this little purple flower are flourishing in large part of Africa and people start to name them African Violet. In my understanding, they are more like the new immigrants from all around the world coming to this new land, we are tiny, small people, and we come here in a hope to make a better living. This cold though peaceful land may only contain some nutrition that we might not even like, after gradually acculturated to this mosaic, we hopefully can thrive like the fortitudious flowers! Grim.....
