Tuesday, August 22, 2023

記憶

200611221855記憶


 

記憶是可以騙人的東西,

你發現它已經悄悄依你的需要做了假,

但你卻找不出中間編造的界線與痕跡,

如果你發現記憶的一個謊言,

你就開始擔憂,

會不會自己真實的一生都是依自己的喜愛編造的,

那些美好的記憶有多少是真實的?

所幸人生太勞累也太紛雜,

並不適合這類本體論的思考,

你上班開了兩天頭昏眼花的業務會議,

對人生大問題也就不著急了.

~詹宏志《人生一瞬》

 

Memories lie.

Before you know it,

They have already insidiously catered to your needs,

Obliterating the fine line between fact and fiction.

Once you detect a lie,

You start to worry:

Is your life as you know it a fabrication?

How much truth is there to what you remember?

Thank God for life's toil and complications,

Giving us respite from these ontological ruminations.

Two days of business meetings have left you too frazzled

To obsess over these larger-than-life questions.

 

(my translation)

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