12月8日

安之若素
林海音 ( 1918 - 2001 )

請不要為了那業已消逝的時光而惆悵，
如果這就是成長，那麼就讓我們安之若素。

──選自《城南舊事》等

December 8

Unperturbed
Lin Haiyin (1918 - 2001)
English translation: Fo Guang Shan Tsung Lin University and William Chong

Please do not be melancholic over time that has already
disappeared; if this is what growing up is about, then let us
face it unperturbed.

── from Chengnan Jiushi (My Memories of Old Beijing) and others