存在主义者认为:一个人只有从所有的社会角色中撤出,并且以“自我”作为一个基地,对这些外铄的角色做出内省式的再考虑时,他的“存在”才开始浮现。
Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths. Wrapping my black coat round me like my own sweet shadow, I
unscrewed the bottle of pills and started taking them swiftly, between gulps of water, one by one by one.
At first nothing happened, but as I approached the bottom of the bottle, red and blue lights began to flash before my eyes. The bottle slid from my fingers and I lay down.
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of vision, it
gathered itself, and in one sweeping tide, rushed me to sleep.
人生真的是一个持续不断上升的过程吗?其实不是。有时候会发生意料之外的事,也会遇到不幸或变故。并不是只要照本宣科地去做,就一定可以得到期待的结果。不管是哪个年龄层,都会遇到一些困难与障碍。在这层意义上可以说,人生正是一场孤独的战斗。
双胞胎的父母,也绝对不会拿他们两人来比较,想都没想过。父母完全把他们当成不同的个体,同时也对两兄弟毫不偏心,一视同仁地疼爱。