【經(jīng)典晨讀美文】假如給我三天光明 (1/7)
來(lái)源:滬江聽(tīng)寫酷
2014-03-20 08:00
Three Days to See假如擁有三天光明
Helen Keller/海倫.凱勒
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All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours, but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.
What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
我們都讀過(guò)這樣一些動(dòng)人的故事,故事里主人公將不久于人世。長(zhǎng)則一年,短則24小時(shí)。但是我們總是很想知道這個(gè)即將離開(kāi)人世的人是決定怎樣度過(guò)他最后的日子的。當(dāng)然, 我所指的是有權(quán)做出選擇的自由人,不是那些活動(dòng)范圍受到嚴(yán)格限制的死囚。
這一類故事會(huì)使我們思考在類似的處境下,我們自己該做些什么?在那臨終前的幾個(gè)小時(shí)里我們會(huì)產(chǎn)生哪些聯(lián)想?會(huì)有多少欣慰和遺憾呢?