珍惜机会

上星期六惊见一只体型超大的白胸翡翠驻立在菜园的支撑木枝上。旁边的蕃薯叶丛也飞来了两只斑纹奇特的蝴蝶。真的很可惜，我没带相机，不能把它们化为永恒。今早特地带了相机再临菜园碰碰运气，可还是没机会瞧见。阿山安慰我说，这些稀有生物礼拜天off-day，下次再来吧，一定会再碰到的。

其实，我也明白，机会不是经常都有的，有时错过了，这辈子也就错过了。真的要珍惜......

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有位友人在电邮中经常附带这样的签名，很有意思：

“因为不知何时死之将至，我们乃将生命视为无穷无尽任意挥霍的源泉。生命中发生的事情仅有那么几次，是的，或许只是很少的一次。童年，午后，一生中挥之不去的人事，这样的下午能回忆起几个？也许有四、五个，也许还没有这么多。一生中见过几次日出月落？或许有二十次吧？然而人们却觉得一切都可以任意挥霍。”
~ 保罗·鲍尔斯《遮蔽的天空》

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.Things happen only a certain number of time. And a small number, really.How many times will you remember an afternoon of your childhood. an afternoon so deeply a part of you that you can't be without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that.How many times will you watch the moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."
~ Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky