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力宏专辑周记
00/12/23~00/12/29 No.29
Dear Friends,
The new year, century, millenium, or whatever you want
to call it is upon us. To me, it is a time to step ten
steps back from the usual perspective I may have on my
life and take a good look.
亲爱的朋友们：
新年、新世纪、千禧年…或用任何你想用的名词来称呼它，就要来临了。对我而言，该是从平时审视生活的视野退十步，再去重新观照自己人生的时刻！
Like a painter having perhaps
just completed one more corner of his vast canvas, the
section we call 2000 is now put in context with the
past. Hopefully, you all will look onto your canvases
and, like me, be able to smile...whether the year was
hard or easy, I am stronger for it, and what I
accomplished this year...is beautiful when I stand back
and take a look.
就像是刚完成巨大画布另一个角落的画家，这个我们称为两千年的区块，现在已成为过去。希望你们也能够像我一样，看着自己的画布，脸露微笑…不管过去这一年过得辛苦或舒适，因为所有历练，我变得更坚强，而今年所完成的事…在我日后回头观望时，都是美丽的。
Now as I walk around this
painting, I notice how much of the canvas is still
blank. If I really wanted to, I could easily change this
piece into a modernist, or impressionist, or even a
boring still life...
现在，我在这幅画前来回走动，我发现画布上大部份还是空白的。如果我真的想要，我可以很轻易的把这幅画画成现代派或是印象派的风格，或者是沉闷的静物写生…
But the funny thing is, it seems
to be taking a shape of its own, ever so naturally. Yes,
the brush is in my hand and whatever I paint is of my
own free-will, but there is a common theme that has
already arisen, something unavoidably individual, and as
basic as one’s penmanship.
但奇怪的是，这幅画好像是自己成型，在很自然的状态下。没错，画笔是握在我手中，而我所画的一切都是出自我个人的意愿，但是画中已经出现了一种共同的主题，它是非常个人的东西，就像每一个人自己的笔迹一样的独特。
I write differently than anyone
else in the world writes or has ever written. Even in
all of my inconsistencies, there is some constant which
is slowly becoming clearer. Maybe I dot my “I”’s funny,
or maybe six times out of ten, I’ll write my “A”’s
capital...maybe it’s becoming clearer to me how I want
to live my life and what I am going to paint in the
remaining blank parts my canvas.
我的笔迹和世界上任何一个人的笔迹都不一样。甚至笔迹中不一致的地方，也是有一些会一致的，这些一致性在后来都慢慢清晰起来。很可能是我写『i』的那一点有些奇怪，也可能在我写十次『A』的时候，有六次我写成了大写…或许，我已经渐渐清楚我要怎么过我自己的生活，以及我想在那块画布的空白处画上什么样的图案和色彩。
Scientists say that time travel
is possible. I know it is, and I do it in my mind
frequently. I’m actually 80 years old sitting on my
rocking chair in my house in the mountains and I just
made a wish. “I want to go back to the day 12/30/2000
when I was 24. I want to see the faces again of those
people who touched my life, see them the way I remember
them, young and beautiful”. I lean back in my chair and
close my eyes, then “poof”, here I am. I walk over to
the window and the first thing I notice is how easy it
is to get up out of this chair. There is no more pain in
my lower back or right knee. I look out the window and
laugh. This is Hong Kong, exactly the way it was that
day before New Year’s Eve. Next, I walk to the mirror in
the my hotel and am shocked. Who is this stranger? Look
at all my hair! Look, there are no wrinkles on my face!
I lean in close and smile, “I’M BACK!” and it feels
great to be living it all over again.
科学家说时光旅行是可能的，我也知道这是可能的。我常常让时光在我的心里穿梭。其实我现在80岁，在我山上的房子里，坐在摇椅上许愿：「我要回到2000年的12月30日，当我24岁的时候。我想再看看那些曾经感动我生命的脸庞，他们就像我记忆中那么年轻漂亮。」我靠在椅背上，闭起双眼，「噗」一声，通过时光的隧道我就来到这里了。我向窗边走过去，首先发现我从椅子上站起来是多么的容易，我的下背部和右膝不再疼了。我望向窗外、脸挂微笑。这里是香港，一切都像是当年新年前夕一模一样。紧接着，我走到饭店镜子前，惊吓地自问：「这个陌生人是谁？」看，我有这么多的头发！看，脸上的皱纹也全都不见了！我靠往镜子前面，笑着说：「我回来了！」能重新体会这一切的感觉真棒。
I really do this quite often. My
80 year old self keeps my head filled with good advice.
When I’m nervous for a performance, he time travels back
and screams, “Gimme the microphone!” or he’ll come to me
and say, “Don’t be such a fool! She’s a nice girl,
beautiful and smart. And there you are, too preoccupied
with you job to do anything about it! Call her back!”
我时常让时光在我的心里穿梭。让80岁的我提供我的脑袋明智的忠告。当我为一场演出感到紧张的时候，他会穿梭时光来到「现在」，对我喊着
：「把麦克风给我！」或者他会告诉我：「别傻了！她是个好女孩－聪明漂亮。你却老忙工作而忽略她。赶快回她的电话吧！」
I hope to live my life like it’s
the second time around. I hope to appreciate the time
that I have while I’m still here. I intend to keep
creating and working hard to fill this canvas, which is
my life, with as much beauty as I can. These are my new
year’s resolutions for 2001
我希望能够像重生一样的过着每天的生活。我希望能够趁现在好好珍惜活着的每一天。我打算继续创作、不断努力的去把画布－我的生命－用最美丽的色彩填满。这是我对2001年这新的一年所许下的然诺。
Happy New Year to all of you!
祝你们新年快乐！
With much love,
Leehom |