Today I told my newly-made movie buddy about this space, this deserted piece of land on which I'm writing. Judging from the idea that someone may actually be reading my rambling here, I feel the need to write something more uplifting and positive, so here we go:
這年來不時出席一些場合， 都會遇上一些人，介紹自己時都離不開名字、做些什麼工作、有些什麼項目在做。沒有人會說自己喜歡藍色、愛聽爵士樂，或者早上總會賴床，大概因為我們長大了， 要成熟些，最愛的冰淇琳味道或者樂曲等無關重要的事都得放下。
上星期六機構在會展舉辦活動。開首時我們着參加者想像自己是講者，為自己寫一篇講者介紹，在小組中分享。不少人都會因應當天主題，談自己想看到社會有什麼改變。這是很好的， 但後來我看到一個參加者寫下的介紹，令我會心微笑：
兆基創意書院學生
喜歡音樂
有少少hea
還有兩句，可惜我忘了。不過你大概也感受到作者的坦白吧。毋須刻意討好你，不用說什麼遠大理想， 就這樣簡簡單單的。未見其人， 我卻已很想認識他／她。
記憶中還有一個很印象深刻的自我介紹。一次到朋友家中作客。席上一位美國來的朋友說自己喜歡玩火， 是真的玩點燃了的火把弄雜耍！後來我們才知道原來他是一家當地相當有規模的3D印刷公司老闆，是項嶄新的技術，只要你有草圖，機器就可造一個立體的模型出來。
明明這人可以先告訴別人自己的職業和威水史，他卻沒有，反而談嗜好、談生活。這些才是令我們獨特的地方，不是工作，不是成就，而是你所看重的生活。
讓我也試試寫寫我的：
孤僻沉默，多數隱沒在人群中
喜歡文學，有空沒空都會聽聽歌、看看戲
如果談得來，就會很多話
不過機會不太多
只因人生難得知己
你又會如何介紹自己？
Always, a very good question.
回覆刪除I find the more experienced I'm getting in theatre, the shorter I need my bio to be!
Have you come across – Wisława Szymborska's poem?
‘Writing a Résumé’
What needs to be done?
Fill out the application
and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of life
a résumé is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are de rigueur.
Landscapes are replaced by addresses,
shaky memories give way to unshakable dates.
Of all your loves mention only the marriage,
of all your children only those who were born.
Who knows you counts more than who you know.
Trips only if taken abroad.
Memberships in what but without why.
Honors, but not how they were earned.
Write as if you’d never talked to yourself
and always kept yourself at arm’s length.
Pass over in silence your dogs, cats, birds,
dusty keepsakes, friends, and dreams.
Price, not worth,
and title, not what’s inside.
His shoe size, not where he’s off to,
that one you pass yourself off as.
In addition, a photograph with one ear showing.
What matters is its shape, not what it hears.
What is there to hear, anyway?
The clatter of paper shredders.
Dear Hofan, this is a very meaningful poem. Thank you for sharing it with me and actually reading my blog. it feels more fun when there're someone reading it.
回覆刪除I like "write as if you'd never talked to yourself."
Writing heals me at this time of the year.