故事，人生

我童年最好的朋友，可說是我家許多書櫃中的書。每一本，我最少都看了三遍以上，偶爾說自己是書蟲，有一大半可是認真的。

小時候每次要睡覺前，我媽媽總會念床邊故事給我聽，當時我會想盡辦法的讓自己醒著，就為了要把故事聽完。直到有一天，應該是小二吧，我發現我可以自己讀媽媽在念的故事，當時那本書好像叫「少年小樹之歌」大致在講孫子跟爺爺奶奶相處的故事，還有孫子後來懷念爺爺跟奶奶的感情，寫到這裡，我還真想要回去翻一翻那本書在講甚麼。

書裡面所蘊含的各種經驗分享和知識，使年幼的我不斷的從不同角度看世界，湯姆的活潑調皮，基督山伯爵的深沉與大度，福爾摩斯的睿智，羅蘋的神秘，廖添丁的俠義，武則天的心狠，楊過的專情等等。還有那孫叔叔溫柔和藹又親切的聲音，都是伴隨我長大的回憶。很有趣的是，我一直到最近兩年才真正的知道，我對故事有無法形容的熱誠，我愛故事。

但書終究是書，它終究是個物品，放在那裏又不會說話，不哭不鬧這點是不錯，可是有問題時，它甚麼也不會說。書缺少人的活性。書畢竟是人寫的。

我在多倫多大學上過的一堂英文課，教授說：「人無法寫出人所不知道的事，所以人寫出的東西都是人自己經歷或思考過的事。也就是說，每一本書，在某一層面來說都可以算是作者的自傳。」

我熱愛故事，我真的要不斷強調這一點，不管事言情小說，科幻小說，甚至經濟學課本，只要是人想出來的，我都想了解。那既然每一本書都可以解釋成每一位作者的自傳的話，那每一位作者自己的故事，一定更加的豐富。

那不為人知的喜怒哀樂，以及經歷過的狂風暴雨絕對比書本更加能令人省思。

那是個多倫多入夏的五月，我決定要踏出我的小世界，去挖掘那生活當中令人為之一亮的故事。

這個部落格會有兩大類的文章:

1. 擦肩而過的故事。最主要是訪問一些我覺得很有趣的人，從乞丐到公司總裁，從三歲小孩到百歲人瑞，只要有趣，我就想寫。

2. 親身體驗。有趣的故事不一定發生在別人身上，也可以是自己，你之後會了解的。

歡迎來到  故事、人生

所羅的故事世界

I love stories. I love people!

My childhood’s best friends were books.

I’m not even kidding.

From my earliest memory, my mom would read me bed time stories. I would do everything to stay awake to know what happened at the end of the story. Until one day, I found out I could read the books by myself and my silent reading speed was much quicker than my mom’s speed. I didn’t need her to read me bed time stories anymore. I read them by myself.

I was around grade one or two back then. Chinese characters were not that easy for little kid like I was, so I had to flip through the dictionary to know what the words meant.

I finished almost every book at the children’s session at the library around my neighborhood.

Every single book leads me to a brand new adventure to broaden my view. I would imagine myself as the protagonist in the story and experience what he or she experiences. I love stories.

As growing up, I found out books are the stories from the authors’ lives or thoughts.

They filtered the stories for me. However, I want to know more!

You know there are always some geniuses in your classes. You wonder if they are nerds digging books everyday after classes.

Or that guy 3 doors next to you could barely graduate from university three years ago, but now he’s driving an Mercede’s racing car. You wonder if he won the lottery or something.

Or that computer engineer friend of yours. Perhaps you’ve only imagine he drinks beers at the bar and talk about computer coding. Maybe he was a pianist in a concert, but quit for he finds greater value in doing computer coding.

Even the vagrants on the way to your work you complained about and wondered if they were educated. In fact, some might be lawyers or doctors, but left their original life style to step on the path of searching who they really are.

People have stories.

I love stories.

So, I love talking to people to know their stories.

Stories they want to share, of course.

This blog will have two things.

1. Stories about others. Or interview with people I found interesting.

2. Stories from me. You will see   🙂

Wish you enjoy every single post as much as I do in writing them!