Only by renouncing our claim to discern a purpose immediately intelligible to us, and admitting the ultimate purpose to be beyond our ken, may we discern the sequence of experiences in the lives of historic characters and perceive the cause of the effect they produce (incommensurable with ordinary human capabilities), and then the words chance and genius become superfluous. -- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Sunday, June 09, 2013
痛苦只因不必要的懶醒
那天和家人在酒樓吃晚飯,點了半隻燒奶豬,上桌後,正當我像平時一樣打算給它拍照上載時,突然覺得這個行為很嘔心,就止住了。看著眼前這碟紅燒奶豬,覺得有點哀傷。
平時我們習慣把炸雞腿拍照放上顏冊騙讚,是很平常和理所當然的事。如果食人族把一條紅燒人腿拍照放上顏冊騙讚,我們又會怎樣想呢?人家做了我們的食糧,我們就應該感恩吧,把人家的死相拍照傳閱,怎麼說也對死者很不尊重吧。這幾天每每看到朋友放上顏冊騙讚的美食照片都會不禁悲從中來,都沒意慾按讚了。
同樣,邊吃著16安士安格斯牛排邊皺著眉哀叫著被撞死的牛牛很可憐又何嘗不是虛偽的惻隱。又或者該說是一種粗率的濫情?
承認自己不是自我想像般純潔崇高,對於那個對自己以外的生命殘忍又麻木不仁的自己,要不接受,要不改變,都是一個痛苦的過程。
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