生活依旧如故

Daniel Lee

又再次回到乡下，晨跑在乡间田野中。

每年总会有2～3次到太太的家乡，也许，这是为了弥补我前40年的人生里，没到过乡下的遗憾吧。

我是一个在城市长大的孩子，而在我的祖国，没有田园茅舍，只有高楼大厦。但是，我却喜欢乡间田野多于都市繁华，就如我一贯喜欢万籁俱寂多于热闹喧哗。

或许，这是因为我知道，我不可能在乡下度过余生，所以每次回到乡下，我特别珍惜在乡下的短暂时光。

不知不觉，已经连续20年回到太太的家乡。不过这一次，还是我们第一次在乡下经历台风。台风“红霞”选择在此时此刻登陆，似乎是在迎合我们的到来而欢呼雀跃。

尽管如此，这个时光终会过去，也许它来势汹汹，但终究会止于平静。而接下来等着我们的，是朝阳与酷热，因为现在正处于夏季。

然后很快的，大家会忘记“红霞”，因为生活就是这样，生活依旧如故。。

Back in the countryside again, jogging through the fields at dawn.

Every year, I make 2-3 trips to my wife's hometown. Perhaps this is my way of making up for the fact that in the first 40 years of my life, I never really experienced the countryside.

I grew up as a city kid. And in my homeland, there are no thatched cottages or pastoral scenes, only towering high-rises. Yet I find myself drawn more to the rural fields than to the urban bustle, just as I have always preferred utter silence to noisy clamor.

Maybe it's because I know I could never spend the rest of my life in the countryside, so every time I return, I cherish these brief rural moments all the more.

Before I knew it, I had been coming back to my wife's hometown for 20 consecutive years. This time, however, marked the first time we experienced a typhoon in the countryside. Typhoon Noul made landfall at this very moment, as if rejoicing & cheering for our arrival.

Even so, this moment will eventually pass. It may arrive with fury, but it will always subside into calm. And what awaits us next is the morning sun & scorching heat, for we are now in the middle of summer.

Soon enough, everyone will forget about Noul, because that's just how life is—life goes on as before..