久違的微笑

以下是一位友人的一篇文章小品， 写得轻松自然， 阅后心中似乎有一股清流划过，淡淡的薄荷味清心无比，忙碌紧张与寂寞的城市顿时也清爽怡然了，苦烦的世界也美好了,脸上不禁展露出那久违的微笑。。。。。。

收到一則很棒的手機短訊：

再煩，也別忘微笑，
再急，也注意語氣，
再苦，也別忘堅持，
再累，也要愛自己，
再忙，也要放鬆自己。

在慈濟大家庭裡，常會遇到好多法親，剛開始，我嘴角微微上揚，呈現一種機械式的禮貌。

在善的大環境中，人們厚厚的盔甲，層層剝下，展現嬰兒般的純真；因此，我有機會好好練習，一個城市人久違的動作——微笑，從機械式的笑到發自內心的微笑。

一笑，未必解千愁，但這個動作，卻為心靈充電，為佈滿烏雲的天空撥開一個縫隙，讓陽光透進來。

活動時人多，通常不只“一笑”，有時是“十笑”，甚至“百笑”，只因，遇見的每一個人，猶如菩薩，活動場頓時變成大磁場。此時的笑，嘴角往上揚，不但讓對方看到，也感覺到；笑意如餘波，在內心泛起漣漪。

◎　向望後鏡打招呼

平日搭輕快鐵上下班，把月票掛在胸前，路過檢查閘時，只要輕輕拿起來，向檢票員亮一亮相，便可以通行無阻，不須排隊刷電子卡。

如果手上提著東西，不方便出示胸前的月票，檢票員瞄了一下，也輕易讓你通過。

練就了“笑”這功夫後，每當路經輕快鐵站的檢票閘時，堅持提起胸前的月票，要清清楚楚地讓檢票員查閱，讓他知道我在意他的工作。如果他剛巧抬頭望我，那趕緊送上滿是笑意的臉。

有些人會自然地回你一笑，有些則是趕快從僵硬的臉上插上一朵塑膠花似的笑，皮笑，肉還來不及笑。

在巴士上，曾遇見一陌生男士，一臉慈祥，下車前，他突然揮揮手，對我微笑，我楞住了；原來我這麼有魅力，心怦怦地跳。

再遇到時也這樣，但這次可就奇怪啦！他還是向同一個方向揮手微笑，卻不是望著我。難道我會錯意了嗎？仔細地瞄一下四週，原來，有人比我更有魅力——司機菩薩。

司機菩薩沒有回過頭來看，這位男士是向著望後鏡微笑招手，期望司機菩薩能察覺。從此，他成了我的榜樣。如果你也在巴士內會錯意了，向我回禮，這世界便會綻放芬芳。

【心靈桃花園】◎ 吉隆坡．方美琪

The Dangers Of Obesity

In today society, being slim is considered beautiful. Although most of the people are trying hard to obtain the silhouette of Cameron Diaz; although slimming centres and gym workout centres are mushrooming everywhere offering women and men the opportunity to become slimmer; although there are many researchers and introductions of organic and healthy food; unfortunately, obesity still manage to slip into our society where it is not only blossomed into a full-blown epidemic in the western countries, it is also on the rapid rise in Malaysia.

Obesity causes many kinds of fatal illnesses. Besides high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease, diabetes is the most serious and highest rate killer in Malaysia. Many Malaysians are suffering terribly from diabetis especially the obeses who are not only the adults but also the youngsters and even the new born infants. This is one of the disastrous effects of submitting oneself to a steady dose of highly processed food, sweet & high fat food in modern life.

Obesity also causes one's physically exhaustion and clumsiness . The load of tons of fats and meats make them difficult to do the simple routines of movements in their everyday life. They would be having problem to descend a staircase for the fear of being toppled by their own huge belly; or they might also be having difficulties to just walk through a threshold due to the bigger sizes of their gigantic bodies than the sizes of doors. Consequently, physical inconveniences and exhaustions will force them having no other choices but just to sit or to lie down on the sofas or the beds doing nothing as like the disabled people.

Furthermore, chronic weight gain which will wreak the havoc on one waist line would also cause one to have low self esteem. Fattish obese always gives a negative impression to people where always negative comments such as clumsy, stupid, ugly and so on are used to relate and describe the obese. Obese would also easily become the laughing-stock of those immoral people. Moreover, the negative impression of clumsiness and not productivity have been the barriers of the obese to their success. Hence, besides physically exhaustion, they also suffer mentally and psychologically, which would lead to another epidemic social disease, Depression.

There are many factors contributing to the explosion of obesity in Malaysia and the world. Besides the latest discovery of the genes hormonal imbalances and the viruses infections, the first and the main culprint is to be the nutritional disorder of an individual's diet and follows by the unhealthy lifestyle of a individuals where the expenditure of energy and dietary habits are imbalance.

In the meantime, scientist across the globe are racing to discover the reason of the impact of genetics on our body lines, size and shape, Malaysians should be educated and nurtured also that the heathier eating habits and lifestyle could be obtained.

The Encouter With Cockroach

Before that incident, i could proudly regard myself as a brave person. This is simply because I'm not afraid of most of the animals (except bad human beings) even the possibly most hated and eeriest creature in the universe: COCKROACH. I'm not afraid of this brown and small creature for it is not harmful at all but somehow it's actually disgusting in a way. It is dirty, smelly and not welcome.

I used to stay in an apartment with three of my other female house mates cum classmates during my 1st year college time. Besides mouse, cockroaches were the closest thing to wildlife in our neighborhood but we always wanted them out of our habitat especially that all of my house mates are cockroach-phoebes. Every time, whenever they saw their great "enemy"--cockroach (they usually would be more sensitive than i was), they would metamorphose from the nonviolent, refine and gentle ladies into march hare; and they would scream blue murder past me and would hide themselves miles away from the ugly and white-blooded creature. I was always left behind alone to be their rescuer by killing the poor cockroach and always managed to act calmly and steadily when I was facing this harmless creature. It was until that particular night that I found out that I was not as brave as I thought.

That night, four of us were squeezing in the tiny and messy living room of our rented walk-up apartment burning midnight oil rushing to complete our assignments. Everything seemed normal and quiet until a brown, about an inch long youngster cockroach appeared in our living room all out of sudden. It was sitting on the white-tiled floor beside my lovely but short legs, starring at me and hesitate to move further. It took about 10 seconds for all of my cockroach-phobic house mates to be out of joint, screaming while running into their bedrooms.

As usual, me, the rescuer who would always come to their rescue by turning myself into a cold hearted killer. Energetically, as I was approaching this ugly intruder, It suddenly flew high up into the air and moved everywhere in the tiny living room searching for exit to escape. while I was trying to target it, before I could scream, I felt something was moving at my back underneath my T-shirt. Logic couldn't explain the shiver I felt in my spine, the primal desire I had to do was to scream out loud and to get it out of my cloth. it was the smelly and disgusting cockroach, I realized. This astonished me and I was reacting vehemently, jumping up and down while screaming, shaking my body and my cloth violently; desperately trying to shake it off me.

I could not recall how long I had been shaking , jumping and screaming, finally it dropped out of my clothes. The minute it was out on the floor, I used my bare foot to turn it over; I was happy to see it's legs flailed; it was twitching. twitching until I tamped hard on it. The bug's crackle and it's smooth exoskeleton was caved in. It's disgusting and sticky white blood was spreading out.

It was dead. Once again I had become the heroin although I had been acting like a buffoon in that battle.

随记(一)

(一)

* 一个人逃避寂寞,两个人渴望自由......*

--庾澄庆的歌 (歌名忘了....)--

(二)

*世界上最遥远的距离,不是两个人相隔天涯海角;而是你我相对,却也不知道...我爱你......*

--张小娴--

(三)

*世界上最远最远的地方在哪里?天涯吗?海角吗?南极北极吗?并不是,因为世界上最远的地方就是那到达不到的地方;而这世界上应该没有去不到的地方吧!*
--三毛--

(四)

*每个人的心目中都有自己所设定的“窗”，透过这个“窗”而看到自己，看到别人如何看自己，也看到自己如何看别人--可是这个“窗”所看到的，全都是“自己"所设计的,并不一定是事实!*

--报章某篇文章--

(五)

*你的眼睛,有时看我,有时看天边的云;当你看着我时,我却觉得你是在看云!*

--顾城之诗--

随想(三)

(一) 经历

一切经历会成为我的根据点;
一切的经历会成为我往后生活上的养份;
一切的经历会改变以往的我造就现在的我......

(二) 坦白

坦白是好的,
坦白会使一切事情简化,
坦白却非常难实行,
坦白是需要勇气与条件的,
而其实坦白就是忠于自己!

(三) 主动

做主动, 不容易,
可若不主动,往往他人也被动,
如此这般,时机将白白溜走化成烟,
故,
还是主动抓紧时机吧!

(四) 犹豫

犹豫, 是因为某种原因,
原因是欲望所造成的.
犹豫,是因为贪心的欲望,
鱼与熊掌都想并得,
但人往往会在犹豫不定之时而失去,
可是却又怕于仓促间而下错决定.
唉......
原来犹豫与矛盾是并存的!

随想(二)

(一)

*失望是因为当初的期望,而且是一厢情愿的期望......*

(二)

*我们人生活在这个现实的社会中,必定会有两个"我":一个是永远被我们收藏于心里, 也从不轻易向外泄露的"我"; 另一个却是为了生活环境与他人而形成的"我"......*

(三)

*暗恋,就像一只野狗,卑微的等待有心人来施舍爱心......*

(四)

*当初你一味儿想逃避与放弃的; 也许会是现在的你所想要与不愿舍弃的......*

(五)

*生活得麻木了,一切的事情都已变得理所当然的了:生老病死与喜怒哀乐,都麻木 了......可悲......*