三毛從小就是一個孤獨自閉的孩子。她的父親這樣寫道:“我的次女是一個先天條件極度貧乏的孩子。 在她二十歲之前,無論健康,脾氣,觀念,敏感,任性和自棄,都是少見的。在她少年的時候,她的母親和我,可以說,因為家中有這樣一個剛烈的孩子,過的是心靈上飽受欺凌的苦日子。那些年她常常要出事,使得我們日日夜夜的生活在恐懼里。寫到這裡,回想起那段歲月,我仍然感到想哭的衝動”。。。 為了給她自由的空間,三毛的父母在“home school ”還很少見的年代,讓她輟學在家,自己讀書,並為她找老師學繪畫和寫作(而讓三毛打破自閉,重新回到世界的那個人,就是她的繪畫老師顧福生)。這樣的父母,是難得的。小時候看到這些故事,雖然也感嘆父母的不易,卻無法理解這些行為背後的擔當和勇氣。只有在自己也做了父母之後,才真正理解了這樣的大愛。對父母的歉疚,大約也是三毛儘管在荷西離去後就一直有隨他而去的念頭,卻一直沒有付諸行動的主要因素。
Maomaocai09: Interesting, you are the second person here at WW who mentioned Toastmaster to me! Is it primarily training for public speaking? What kinds of topics will you write and speak about?
Thanks for your reply. I love your blog and am looking forward to learning more from you. I am not good at writing at all, so it would take me one day or even more to finish such a long story like Sanmao. These days, I am in a toastmaster club to practice my public speaking. However, I spent most of the time on writing the speech, not on delievering the speech. First of all, I need to do some research on the topic. Then I have to read them to get familar to the materials. It takes me at least 10 hours to prepare a 5-7 minutes speech, only 2 pages long in MS word format.
I admire your productivity in writing and thank you again for all I learned from you.
Thanks for your concern, but please don't worry about me spending too much energy on writing so that it affects the other parts of my life. As you can tell from my articles, there are priorities in my life and it's very clear to me what the most important things are in life. It's very likely that I'll have to limit my writing to weekends only, because there's really no way I can squeeze time during the weekdays to handle all I have to do and still write now. Perhaps that's the way to make it a sustainable hobby - actually I have been writing for more than two years,which I think is pretty "sustainable" period for a blogger nowadays, don't you agree :)?
Thanks for your article. You are so productive in writing, and I hope this blog will not affect your other work. I read a news about one blogger who was the most popular one in one site and he was so addicited to the writing due to his popularity. However he was hospitalized at last because he was so overloaded by all his work. Anyway, I like your article and also hope your blog is sustainable.
I just entered into the univeristy when Sanmao died. It was a shocking news to me since she was so famous and so successful. Now I can understand it more. No matter how rich or succesfful, we all have our weekness and sometimes we may feel hopeless. Sanmao had her dream and she could not fulfill it in reality. She chose to die while most of us choose to stay even wtihout dream fullfilled.