东京日记第十二集｜何以为家 Tokyo Diary #12 | What Makes a Home?

有位前辈想写一本回忆录， 写了五万字便写不下去了。 他说， 全是流水账。 我笑着说： 生活大多都是流水账， 需要艺术之神开个光。 其实， 为了这一点光， 我也等了很久。 樱花盛开的季节， 十四岁的女儿独自坐上了飞往东京的飞机。 从一个人的东京， 变成两个人的东京。 她会发现我习以为常而忽略的东西： 星星、 水母、 鸟、 树上的瘤。 我开始洗更多的碗， 担心更多的事情， 也拥有了更多的快乐。 有一天， 她救活了阳台上一棵枯死的银杏树。 她说： 理论上， 树可以达到永生。 也许， 家就是这样。 有人等待， 有人到来， 有人离开， 有人仍然相信生命会重新发芽。 —— A friend once tried to write his memoir. After fifty thousand words, he stopped. “It’s all just daily trivia,” he said. I smiled and replied: Most of life is ordinary. Sometimes we simply wait for a little light from the gods of art. Perhaps I had been waiting for that light as well. In the season of cherry blossoms, my fourteen-year-old daughter flew alone to Tokyo. My life changed from one person to two. She notices things I no longer see: stars, jellyfish, birds, and strange knots on tree trunks. I wash more dishes now. I worry more. I laugh more. One day, she brought a dead ginkgo tree back to life. Then she said: “In theory, trees can live forever.” Maybe that’s what home is. Someone waits. Someone arrives. Someone leaves. And someone still believes that life can begin growing again. Tokyo Diary #12 What Makes a Home? Directed & Narrated by Long Yejiu