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英語專業(yè)晨讀美文人生篇:歲月的便條(英音)

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Yellow Post-Its
Can you still find this day, my dear, among your possessions?
Among the souvenirs of your trips to faraway lands,
the textbooks from those halcyon days
when you walked the hallowed portals of that engineering college,
the cassettes whose covers were left behind
after one of those bacchanalian sessions in the hostel,
the photographs of those classmates whose names you can't remember?
Or is it hidden in the darkness, put out of sight along with the book
you bought but never read,
the gift you never quite found a use for
and the letters you never finished or sent?
I can still find it here, in the city,
in the house which you have never visited,
in the kitchen where I have imaginary conversations with you.
 It is here even when I am not, for I go out now,
 leaving the light on and the music playing,
so I can return home to the illusion of company.
I am probably better off now.
Without secrets to keep from my parents.
Without someone to come between me and my friends,
 me and my pastimes, me and my work, me and my sensible,
understandable, utilitarian life.
The life that I keep trying,
keep failing to bring in line with the expectations that
 I keep trying, keep failing to make my own.
It is not that I always feel like this,
sometimes I yearn for those days when tears and laughter both came easy,
those easy and quick transitions from ecstasy to despair.
When a compliment could keep my mind occupied for hours on end
and a harsh word could prick like a pin the same skin
which now seems dry and insensitive.
 Like probably millions around the world,
I look outside the window of a crowded bus,
lost in my own thoughts and wonder how it could happen to me.
Was I not supposed to be different from the rest?
Not for the silly schoolgirl infatuation with the football team captain
 or the fascination with the good for nothing,
pot-smoking aspiring poet.
 Ours was a mature friendship that had blossomed into more.
How could I feel a pang of envy then,
when you lent a helping hand to another girl,
when you spoke about someone who's far away and about to be married,
 when you were so involved in the book you were reading
 that you did not notice that we never met all day?
Then came the rescue mission.
The loud fights in the hostel wing,
the long silences and the desperate angry notes.
 Frustration, anxiety
and even love revealing itself in the ugliest possible ways.
Then indifference, complacency and resignation.
Calm, dispassionate discussions on how we could stay friends.
The decision that we should always let the other know when we would be around.
 That's when I started leaving those yellow post-its on the door.
Those yellow post-its which by the time
 I came back would have your coordinates that I never used.
If we had all of them now,
they would be telling this tale a lot better than I am now.
Back home, I still continue leaving those post-its to this day,
hoping that someone will write their whereabouts on them as well.

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