回家的路

回家的路

旅美作家  朱 啟

記得看過一部日本電影《千與千尋》，說是有人受到慾望所惑，忘記了自己的名字，結果變成了豬，海吃海爭，膘肥體胖，造成了等待讓人宰割的悲慘命運。

在探親訪友做客他人家中時，由於人生地不熟，卻慾望無窮，東奔西闖，最終忘記了自身的起點，迷失了回家的路。

出國求學謀生，琳琅滿目，處處誘惑，在一種身不由己的亢奮和憧憬中樂而忘形，優哉游哉，最終把自己本來不夠深刻的傳統文化丟棄忘光，甚至連漢語書寫也感覺彆扭，到頭來只能是落了中不中，外不外，土不土，洋不洋的尷尬結局。

更有甚者，有的人一踏上這青山碧水、鳥語花香的異國土地，立馬就開始貶低世世代代生之養之的家國故土，開口閉口人家的一切全都時尚光鮮，而自己的祖國一概不行。恨不能一下子融入國外的主流上層，而讓自己的祖國分崩離析，從此變為他人的附庸……

發表以上這通感慨，並不是想來證明鄰居兒女統統不好，而孩子只有自己家的乖。這個世界的確是日新月異，變化飛快。人們需要打開國籍與族裔的大門，互相交流切磋、溝通融合，最終朝向一個「控制和減縮自身慾望，溶匯和完善地球人類」的總體目標。

有史以來，啟迪和推動這個世界變化發展的一切人類進取的智慧與行為，資本融合集散也罷，均平和諧共產也罷，戰爭與和平，潮來並潮去，得勝也罷，衰亡也罷，最終的歸結只能在此一點：人類必須共處在同一個地球。而那些探月窺火（星）的浩渺工程，多少光年過後才能夠讓人類移師太空？而即使在我們的現世寄居月亮或火星，如此對抗與爭奪下去，豈不又成為新一輪走向毀滅的開始？

所以，看來我們還是應當本分點，縮減些慾望和爭搶，大家一起來協調支配現有資源，爭取讓人類得以和平共處，繁衍長久。另外，出門也要謹慎些，面對一切新奇的誘惑，多花一份心思，記住自己的起點，別忘了回家的路。

The Way Back Home

By  Qi Zhu

I remember watching a Japanese film entitled, "Spirit a Thousand Miles Away".  It tells about someone who forgot his name and eventually turned out to be a fighting-for-food obese pig.  This film expects the audience to think about the people around us who cannot resist temptation, whose destiny ends up driven by others not by themselves.

When visiting friends, because of the unfamiliar environment or because of borderless desires, people find they have been wandering around back and forth and that they eventually have lost their way back home.

Studying overseas where temptation is everywhere, people may realize they have lost their traditions, perhaps they failed to master them and in the excitement of this new adventure their traditions become lost.  They even feel awkward when writing Chinese.  Eventually they end up embarrassed, caught between two different worlds, in the middle of Chinese culture and Western traditions.

Some people, even worse, belittle their home country where generations of ancestry were raised. They celebrate any, and everything, in and of the visiting country as soon as they land on this foreign soil.  They tend to criticize everything from their home country, because they want so much to assimilate, right away, into the mainstream of the foreign country.

The above comments do not assume that children from neighboring countries do not tend to be good and only my own kind is fine.  This world does develop rapidly and it seems new everyday.  People should open the door to understanding, as well as exchange of ideas and goods; be open to interracial and international communication and to the general goal to "control and reduce personal desires and furthermore to exchange and improve humanity, globally".

Ever since the origin of the history of mankind, intelligence and behavior enlighten and inspire the world to develop. No matter whether economics collects or distributes and regardless of harmony or disharmony, war or peace, tide or wave, win or lose, fall or rise, one fact remains that we, human beings , live on one planet.  How many years before humans are able to inhabit another planet, depends on the Space Project.  Whether we live on the Moon or Mars, facing so much fighting and conflict, would this become just another cycle of devastation?

Therefore, people should know their duty and reduce their desire for fighting. Indeed, people should work together to utilize existing resources to strive to have a peaceful life for humanity, forever.  In addition, be careful with outside temptations.  Think more and remember your starting point. DON'T FORGET THE WAY BACK HOME!