美文共享
作者：Joel Melton
讀這篇文章的時候，我的腦海裏不禁回響起周傑倫的《聽媽媽的話》，不知道讀者們是否有同感呢？“聽媽媽的話/別讓她受傷/想快快長大/才能保護她/美麗的白發/幸福中發芽……”
Beauty is a good word.
Of course, when thinking of beauty, I usually think of physical beauty, the female form, a "face that could launch a thousand ships," Helen of Troy注.
That is beauty, I suppose, or should I say superficial【表麵的】 beauty—eye-candy beauty. I am not sure that the above-mentioned is a full accounting of the word "beauty."
When I was young, my mother thought the way to make me grow into a better person was to "beat the devil" out of me. She was convinced of the innate【先天的】 sinful【有罪的】 nature of all humans, especially her son—me. She would hold a switch【鞭子】 over me and make me study for hours at a time. Come rain or shine, I studied: When finished with a book or passage, it was on to math or science. Nothing was more important than work. I did my work all right, all the while thinking, "When I grow up, I am going to kill that woman!"
I grew up. I have not killed her yet. I am pretty much over that notion【想法】.
In thinking back, my mother had had the beauty beat down in her. Someone or something had injured her so that she could not—for the life of her—let her beauty show to her family. She is a beautiful woman and a beautiful person. She just could not, and still cannot, let her children see it.