入秋了

入秋了

2016年3月25日 星期五

愛(二)

其實愛這個題目真的很難,但是人總喜歡問這個問題,那就只好再談了。

愛與不愛,不是「愛」就可以回答的(其實也不是「不愛」就可以斷尾的)。

「你愛唔愛我?」愛與不愛,其實不是用說話來回答的。

2016年3月24日 星期四

愛(一)

其實愛這個題目真的很難,但是人總喜歡問這個問題,那就只好再談了。

愛與不愛,不是「愛」就可以回答的(其實也不是「不愛」就可以斷尾的)。

「你愛唔愛我?」雖然只是一個問題,但可以有無數個變化。

愛與同理(Love and empathy)

什麼是愛?What is love?喜歡一個人很容易,那麼愛一個人呢?

在過去這一段關係中,當中有喜歡,也有淡淡的愛。無法深愛或許是因為難以包容、接納和體諒,難以用同理心去愛。

2016年3月23日 星期三

The trend of identity issue in young adult

Erik Erikson's Stage of Psychological Development tells us that adolescents are in the stage of searching for self-identity. For those who are fixated at this stage, they will find role confused which affects their development in the following stages. In my observation, this identity issue has obviously extended.

Identity crisis is the situation that a person does not know what to do with his life. One of my friends told me he could not feel any true happiness after coming back from working holiday in Australia. He could not focus on a book, movie or anything he used to enjoy in. He fancied something unknown. He felt he himself did not belong to here, but he did not know what and where he belonged to. He sought jobs according to his parent's wishes, and also because of his girlfriend. He worked like a gearwheel of a machine, playing his role without feeling. He lived like a robot. He revealed that he was not the only one who had this kind of feeling after working holiday.

I am not sure about the causes of this situation. However, there is an observable fact. In Australia, "I do what I really want", while in Hong Kong, "I do what the others want me to do". My friend had a dream, be an outward bound trainer. However, the salary of a trainer is $11000 per month only. He believed his parents would object to this decision. Moreover, he would like to provide her girlfriend a stable living which cannot be secured by working as a trainer.

Karl Marx described human as "a conscious being, (who) makes his life activity, his essential being, a mere means for his existence". However, it is difficult for a person to be himself, to work directly for his needs and to follow his wills and choices. The process has been intervened by money, materials and the belief of "Good Life".

In Australia, my friend worked in a farm. His income depended on how many fruits he picked. He could enjoy the fruit while picking. The relationship between his efforts and rewards was in proportion. The relationship between him, as a person, and the land was close. What he needed to do was planning how to earn more by traveling to different farms every day. There was meaning for each of his actions.

However, it was totally different when he came back. Working in a city, the relationship between efforts and return is indirect. People work because of the salary.  Salary can be used for food and bills. Spared salary becomes savings which may be used for buying a flat. A flat provides a chance to build up a family, and then, it is possible to have a child and so on. These are some of the imaginations of a faraway future. Actually, some people may not imagine their future because having a child is another cycle to earn more money, which goes back to the first step.

In addition, the most terrible thing is what your family members and peers may tell you that it is the right track towards "Good Life". When you were young, they started suggesting, helping, and motivating you to enter the university, which they believe is the right way. After your graduation from university, they stop the intensive intervening and tell you "I have done what I had to and here comes your turn. Go to find a good job (according to salary and welfare) and form a family. I am waiting for my grandchild."  Some people just follow the others’ suggestion and their counterparts start asking themselves a question, "What do I really want?"

It is never too late asking this question. People may feel lost and uncomfortable in asking this question but it is an important question. It is a chance to search for the inner wants and needs, to have better self-understanding and to live a new life for a person to be a person.


The word “crisis” consists of two words in Chinese, risk and opportunity. The rising trend of the identity crisis in teenagers and young adults is representing some structural problems in the society. The government should face the problems. Otherwise, it will start as individuals' issues and end up as social crisis.


2016年3月22日 星期二

關係

昨天前女友想我重新回答一個問題問題:是否覺得我們已經沒有可能?

對我而言,這不是一個容易回答的問題,回始的時候我以為是因為答案不能用簡單一句回應,現在我才發現,是因為這裡其實可以有兩種解讀。

「有沒有可能」,按字面解,50%叫有可能,1%叫有可能,0.0001%也是有可能,將來的事沒有人能夠回答,因此,所有事都有某個可能。有可能。

「有沒有可能」,現在能不能復合,能或不能,此時此刻,問的表面上是可能,實際上是一個選擇。沒有可能。

兩個問題的答案互相矛盾,難怪當時不懂招架。只知道,其實我不太想回答,我覺得自己早已經在言語上與行為上作出了回答,早在半年前已經提供了一個清晰的答案,結果卻是再次被問,一個我以為早已完結和處理的問題。

再次被問的時候,當時的情感被一次過激發,感覺是在被逼迫,更深層的是覺得她把自己的問題放到我身上叫我替她回答的憤怒。

「我們為什麼分手」「是否沒有復合的可能」「如何交流可是合適」「我們是什麼關係」...

無數的問題,我可以回答的部份是我的想法、我的感受、我的意願,但不是我們的。或者我所難以理解和無法理解的部份是,對我而言,兩個人在一起,仍然保留一定程度的自我。「我們」中有「我和你」,「我們」是因為「我和你」互動而共同創造,而並不是「我」可以代表「我們」。但是很多人會希望把「我們」看作為「我們」,因此其中一方可以決定兩個人的事情。如果這是關係長久建立下來的一種了解,我可以明白這是一種「交託」,但如果這種「交託」過於極端,而且因為「已經交託」而失去了「互動」(甚至是「你應該知我想點架。」,頂你,鬼知咩),我無法理解,更難以接受。

當時的我只怕毀了這段關係,當時的我不明白自己所掙扎和猶豫的是什麼,當時的我不知道自己心中有種看法,更加不明白自己內心原來藏有有憤怒和不平。

作為朋友,有人覺得我是一位好好先生,但對於親密的關係,我的要求和情緒卻來得實在和明顯。


2016年3月15日 星期二

完結,也是開始

學習階段暫告一段落,先組織一下這段時間的得著,然後繼續走下。

終於完成了實習,在這個實習中又有一些新的得著和轉變。老師問及我的得著,我指自己又再打開了一點。

沒有人能夠打開一個人,只有自己可以打開自己。或多,或少。過去的我經常去尋找答案,希望找到一個不變或固定的答案,是想回答生命中什麼重要的問題嗎?
也許吧。也許更重要的是,尋找屬於自己的答案。

我不知道這段時間的成長緣自什麼,死亡、解除束縛、自由、要自己負責任、明白要清楚自己的定位、開始能夠分辨什麼是不必要的想法、開始接觸簡單(雖然仍然複雜)... 也許以上皆是。

其中一個很重要的是開始清楚自己的定位,以前的我會經常設想別人,這與「同理心」不同,因為我的設想只是想法,往往與現實有落差,更大的問題是:當時的我不知道與現實有這麼大的落差。於是,設想別人的想法阻礙了我自己的行動,因為我會考慮別人的想法和意見、觀點和預期回應。最後就是作繭自縛,更加無法接觸和理解現實,空想空想,愈想愈空。

現在會敢於嘗試,只有嘗試、表達和溝通,你才會知道自己的想法與別人的想法有多大落差(落差近乎必然存在,只在乎多少),與現實有多遠的距離。

因此給自己的第一個提醒是:嘗試、表達和溝通

督導老師在最後的檢討中,不斷提醒我要用心,是的,要用心。
她叫我要用心去體會別人,我提自己,每件事要先問心,當人能夠接觸自己內心時,才能體會別人的內心,因為明白他人,並不是空想他人的想法,而是想像自己面對同樣的情況,自己會有什麼感受。

心是指引方向的路標,是做自己的重要一環。

第二個提醒:多接觸自己的內心同時學習同理心

第三,前日看了一套舞台劇:林奕華的心之偵探,當中提到「問題」不代表有個必然「答案」,往往尋獲的,其實是一扇「窗」,讓你再從新角度去探索,去發問的一扇窗。如果你尋找到的是一個讓自己停止思考的一個答案,那你只是尋到一面牆,然後隨時撞牆而死(如果你堅持這個「事實」不放)。

因此,第三個提醒:永遠保留窗戶,保留發現「新」的可能

老師還提醒我要多了解社會和更靈活彈性( flexible),心向世界打開,世界才會出現在你眼前,心只向自己,或者只會愈來愈孤獨。又如愛人,只有愛人,才會學懂愛。

最後一個提醒:由近至遠,由小至大,推己及人


圖片來自:https://www.flickr.com/photos/appleping/3438635702/in/gallery-daocang-72157623675017720/

2016年3月5日 星期六

累了,不想睡

很容易疲倦,然而倦了卻不想去睡。
可能是因為想留住,留住時間,留住精神,留住不想失去的,留住想保留的。
然而這種留住就像是想留住要下山的太陽,一直追一直跑,卻是用了不合適的方法,令自己難以活在當下。

總有些方法能讓人在疲累時能夠用傷害身體換來一剎的精神,不住的食是一種,不停的看是一種。

一直迷戀有才華的人,有追一些Blog,就像是偷窺着這些人的生活。從這些人身上,總會又學到些什麼。


食撐了,看飽了,人又再次累了。
也許這真的是一種餓的感覺,空虛的餓。

親愛的,晚安。