书写你的人生

Suppose someone gave you a pen―a sealed, solid?鄄colored pen. You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin. Under the rules of the game,you really never know. You have to take a chance!

Actually,no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen,you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up,unused. But if you do decide to use it,what would you do with it?How would you play the game?Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word?Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?Or would you take the pen in hand,plunge right in and just do it,struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?Would you write cautiously and carefully,as if the pen might run dry the next moment,or would you pretend to believe that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?

And of what would you write:Of love?Hatred? Fun?Misery?Life?Death?Nothing?Or Everything?Would you write to please just yourself,or others,or yourself by writing for others?Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold?Fancy with a flourish or plain?Would you even write?Once you have the pen,no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble?Doodle or draw?Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all,even if they were there?Or are they?There’s a lot to think about here,isn’t there?

Now,suppose in the same way that if someone gave you a life...

假设有人给你一支笔――一支密封的固体彩色笔，你无从知道它储存了多少墨水。有可能刚写了开头几个字便耗尽了，也有可能足以让你完成一部流传后世，改变世界的巨著（或者几部）。但这一切在开始之前你一无所知。这个游戏的规则，你并不知晓。你必须碰运气！

事实上，这个游戏中没有规则说你必须做些什么。你可以不用这支笔，而是将它放在书架上，或抽屉里，任它干掉，不能使用。但如果你的确决定使用它，那么你将用它做什么？你怎样玩这个游戏？你在下笔之前会一遍遍的计划思索吗？还是计划太多以至于无从开始下笔？或者你会拿起笔，开始写作，在曲折或平凡的文字海洋里畅游？你会小心谨慎地使用这支笔好像它马上就要用尽吗？还是你会假装相信它能延续使用到永远？

你用它写些什么内容呢？爱？恨？趣味性的？痛苦？生命？死亡？什么都不写？或者什么都写？仅仅为了取悦你自己，他人？或者通过写别人而快乐自己？你的想象力丰富活跃还是平淡无奇？甚至说你会开始写吗？一旦你拥有这支笔，没有规则说你必须用它来写作。你可用来速写，胡写乱画，涂鸦或画画。

你会游离于字里行间还是字外？或者你全然看不到这些文字，即使它们曾经存在过或就在眼前？有许多值得你考虑的事情，对不对？

现在，以相同的思路思考一下，如果有人给你一次生命……