Linda的喃喃自語

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- Elizabeth Bishop
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the art of losing's not too hard to master
帶著多少的感傷寫下這句話
鼓勵自己在人生繼續下去

因為離別接受死亡的訊息，是只要活著都會一再面對的事情
I shan't have lied.
短短的四個字卻讓我感動很久，欺瞞別人或許可以一輩子，
騙自己只是一時，因為腦袋總是清楚不過的，那樣只會讓自己掉入無底限的掙扎
not hard to master but it needs time to learn experiences


這首詩曾經出現在偷穿高跟鞋的橋段-當卡麥蓉迪亞第一次唸書給眼盲的退休老教授
唸這首詩是電影的主角心境和行為的轉變關鍵