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Date Posted: 20:14:53 12/17/06 Sun
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Subject: Dear All, 共勉之

(轉載自ernus的blog, 希望不要介意。)

龍應台《給河馬刷牙》(節錄自17/12/2006蘋果日報)
這是龍應台回應兒子安德烈說自己是個極平庸的兒子,不可能有同樣擁有博士學位的爸爸和媽媽之成就而寫的一段文章。

「對我最重要的,安德烈,不是你有否成就,而是你是否快樂。而在現代的生活架構裡,什麼樣的工作比較可能給你快樂?第一、它給你意義;第二、它給你時間。你的工作是你覺得有意義的,你的工作不綁架你使你成為工作的俘虜,容許你去充分體驗生活,你就比較可能是快樂的。至於金錢與和名聲,哪裡是快樂的核心元素呢?假定說,橫在你眼前的選擇是到華爾街做銀行經理或者到動物園做照顧獅子河馬的管理員,而你是一個喜歡動物研究的人,我就完全不認為銀行經理比較有成就,或者獅子河馬的管理員平較『平庸』。每天為錢的數字起伏而緊張而鬥爭,很可能不如每天給大象洗澡,給河馬刷牙。

當你的工作在你心目中有意義,你就有成就感。當你的工作給你時間,不剝奪你的生活,你就有尊嚴。成就和尊嚴,給你快樂。

......

如果我們不是在跟別人比名比利,而只是在為自己找心靈安適之所在,那麼連『平庸』這個詞都不太有意義了。我們最終極的負責對象,安德烈,千山萬水走到最後,還是『自己』二字......」

在快要迷失的時候,看一看,也許能令你震奮。
我想我是屬於快樂的一群。

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