10月8日

旅店
林清玄 ( 1953~ )

生活裡的很多記憶像是一個個小小的旅店，
而人像乘著一匹不停向前奔跑的驛馬，每次回頭，
過去的事物就永遠成為離自己而去的小小旅店，
所有的歡樂與悲痛，所有的沉澱與激情，甚至所
有的成功與失敗都在那些旅店裡，到當天傍晚
我們就要投宿另一個旅店了。

──選自《林清玄散文集》

October 8

Small Hotel
Lin Ching-hsuan (1953 - )
English translation: Fo Guang Shan Tsung Lin University

The many memories in life are like a series of small hotels,
which we pass by like galloping horses. Every time we
glance back, the happenings of the past are like hotels that
become smaller and smaller, and leave us for good. All the
happiness and grief, calmness and excitement, as well as all
successes and failures remain. When the evening comes, we
would then have to lodge in another small hotel.

── from Lin Qingxuan Sanwen Ji (Essays by Lin Ching-Hsuan)