三毛从小就是一个孤独自闭的孩子。她的父亲这样写道:“我的次女是一个先天条件极度贫乏的孩子。 在她二十岁之前,无论健康,脾气,观念,敏感,任性和自弃,都是少见的。在她少年的时候,她的母亲和我,可以说,因为家中有这样一个刚烈的孩子,过的是心灵上饱受欺凌的苦日子。那些年她常常要出事,使得我们日日夜夜的生活在恐惧里。写到这里,回想起那段岁月,我仍然感到想哭的冲动”。。。 为了给她自由的空间,三毛的父母在“home school ”还很少见的年代,让她辍学在家,自己读书,并为她找老师学绘画和写作(而让三毛打破自闭,重新回到世界的那个人,就是她的绘画老师顾福生)。这样的父母,是难得的。小时候看到这些故事,虽然也感叹父母的不易,却无法理解这些行为背后的担当和勇气。只有在自己也做了父母之后,才真正理解了这样的大爱。对父母的歉疚,大约也是三毛尽管在荷西离去后就一直有随他而去的念头,却一直没有付诸行动的主要因素。
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.