情書
Write a love letter
Stumbled upon a video on IG featuring Mini Hin and Xiao Ying. The video's title was "Write a love letter to each other on this special 8th-anniversary day."
Seeing that they've been together for eight years hit me in the feels. It got me reminiscing about my own journey. It seems I tied the knot with my sweetheart after eight years of cohabitation. The number 8 really does have some enchanting vibes. (灬ºωº灬)
old-school
Oh, oh, oh! Mini Hin and Xiao Ying going old-school with love letters—classic move. Well, our place is pretty old-school too. My sweetheart, though, more of a poet and songwriter. Writes me love poems and songs like it's nothing.
I remember a line from the last song
The song
I remember a line from the lyrics
""Caught in your gaze, a lifetime misled.
I'm pleased
the voice is both melodic and deep, BUT that lyric... it's a real head-scratcher.
Oh, oh, oh!
Geez! I thought, you're the one misleading a lifetime, and your whole family is on that bandwagon
(ꐦ°᷄д°᷅)⧸.
Annoyed! Annoyed! Really ticked off!
Meeting me is your stroke of luck, you should be writing
"lucky for a lifetime," why opt for "misled a lifetime"?
Hold on!
Wait a minute! I'm considered part of their family. "Your whole family misled a lifetime." This way, am I not tossing myself into the verbal scuffle too?
Reading a novel:
After venting, a novel I read before popped into my head. Grabbed it again—Nicholas Sparks's "Message in a Bottle" (1998).
Watching Mini Hin and Xiao Ying scribbling love notes made me itch to do the same. Figured I'd take cues from Nicholas Sparks, since his love letters are all the rage.
A little imitation won't hurt (๑¯∀¯๑). Penning one for my sweetheart, can I trade it for a smooch? Or maybe lay on some cheesy lines like, "Hey, I'm pretty certain about this, almost a sure thing, but I'm missing just one kiss from you."
The book
Back to the novel, let's keep the chatter going. I'm into this book because of the vivid descriptions.
Nicholas Sparks leans heavily on visual imagery in his writing. The depiction of romance between mature folks is vivid, like the scenes are playing out right in front of me.
The story is about a lady, Theresa, who found a message in a bottle on the beach after her husband cheated on her and they divorced.
The letter inside is a heartfelt message from a guy named Garrett, pouring out his longing for his late wife, Catherine. Garrett's portrayal in the letter paints him as a faithful, devoted, and lonely soul.
The female lead craves eternal love and an ideal prince charming. She falls for the guy through the letter. Love might just be like that
We fall for ILLUSIONS
When the illusions shatter, can we still love the real person?
Novel excerpt:
Garrett, the male lead, writes to his deceased wife Catherine:
My Dearest Catherine,
I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. I can almost feel you beside me as I write this letter, and I can smell the scent of wildflowers that always reminds me of you. But at this moment these things give me no pleasure. Your visits have been coming less often, and I feel sometimes as if the greatest part of who I am is slowly slipping away.
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man ─ the prince or knight of
her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. True, there were good men out there ─ men who loved with all their hears and remaned steadfast in the face of great obstacles ─the type man she'd wanted to meet since she and David divorced. But how to find such a man?
Wu Bai's song
Reading this line from the novel, "I can smell the scent of wildflowers that always reminds me of you."
It immediately brought to mind the lyrics from (Wu Bai's)China Blue's song "Lonely Tree, Lonely Bird":
"My love, where did you go?
Never thought about how I feel, never cared about my emotions.
Ah, my love, craving the scent of you.
Turn around and come back to me, won't you?"
the girl's fantasy
Reading this part, I can't help but applaud the author's insight. He points out the girl's fantasy.
Recollection: My sister
I remember back in third grade, my sister rented a ton of romance novels from the bookstore, and I followed suit. After about ten novels, I found them super silly. How can there be perfect people in the world? And the plots were so strange. You have to be abused a hundred and eighty times to prove that love is real.
At ten years old, I thought,
"If I have to endure that much abuse, I'd have left ages ago.
Who needs love? Love is terrifying.
Why does my sister love reading these weird books?"
Even though I thought my sister was odd for reading such books, I still followed her and read at least a thousand books. Starting from junior high, I got into BL, and in high school, I picked up GL.
The advantage is that, as a ten-year-old child, I recognized many Chinese characters because I read many romance novels that I thought were foolish.
"Ah! Love cannot be tested. The characters inside are so weird." I thought.
"Do we have to die together like Romeo and Juliet to prove the greatness of love?" 10-year-old me thought that
adults in this world are really strange!
Novel review:
Seeing the female lead chasing eternal love and an ideal prince charming, I find it unrealistic.
Nothing in this world lasts forever—family, friendship, love—they won't last forever.
Just as Mr. Su Shi said, "Life is like a journey, and I am just a traveler." Who isn't someone else's passerby?
And an ideal prince charming? How foolish do you have to be to have such a fantasy?
There are no perfect people in this world. Nobody is perfect. Even saints dare not say they won't make mistakes. In the face of temptation, who dares to say they will absolutely not be tempted? Maybe not physically unfaithful, but what about mentally?
background music
While reading, what was my background music? I played 張學友的《情書》
伍佰的《思念親像一條河》《愛情限時批》《心愛的再會啦》《樹枝孤鳥 》
"Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers, and Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love." Haha, my friends admires me. Listening to Chinese, Taiwanese, and English songs like this,
they feel the styles are too different. It breaks the immersion for them.
Taiwanese Dictionary
Attached: Taiwanese Dictionary
伍佰〈樹枝孤鳥〉歌詞講解
緣起
在IG刷到迷你軒和小瑩的影片
以下是影片名稱《在這個特別的8週年日子給對方寫一封情書💌 Write a love letter to each other on this 8th year anniversary day》看到他們交往八年了，好感慨
喔喔喔！迷你軒和小瑩他們寫情書──真老派
好吧！我們家也挺老派
我家寶貝則是給我寫情詩，他很有才華，寫五言絕句 七言律詩不是問題
還會寫歌，他上次寫給我的歌詞有一句我印象深刻
「看你的那一眼，誤了終身」
雖然我很高興你寫歌給我，歌喉也挺好聽、挺深情
但是，這歌詞
真是令人氣呼呼
天！我心想。你才誤了終身，你全家都誤終身 (ꐦ°᷄д°᷅)⧸
生氣！生氣！
氣呼呼！
遇到我，是你的幸運，你應該寫 幸運終身，怎麼給我寫誤了終身
好吧，看在他唱歌聲音很好聽的份上
原諒他好了
看小說
生完了氣，我突然想到之前看的一本小說，就又把他拿起來看，是Nicholas Sparks尼可拉斯‧史派克的《瓶中信》Message in a Bottle (1998)
看迷你軒和小瑩寫情書，也讓我心癢癢，也想寫一下。來參考一下尼可拉斯‧史派克的情書，他寫的情書那麼暢銷，偷偷模仿一下 (๑¯∀¯๑)
寫情書給我家寶貝，能不能換到一個吻呢？
還是要跟他說土味情話
「你好，這件事情我很有把握，十拿九穩，但只差你一吻」
回來回來，繼續講這本書
我喜歡這本書是因為他裡面的描述。尼可拉斯‧史派克是比較偏重視覺影像的作家，他描述熟男熟女間的浪漫，描述地挺生動，歷歷在目，好像影像就在我的面前。
故事是講說，有一個女生Theresa在老公外遇離婚後，有一天去海邊撿到了一個瓶子，裡面有一封信──是一位男子的情書。此位男子Garrrett他透過寫信來抒發他對於逝去妻子Catherine的思念，他在信裡面的訴說，塑造了一位忠貞、專情、孤獨的形象。女主角追求永恆的愛情和理想的白馬王子。
女主角愛上了信中的他。
或許戀愛就是這樣吧！我們都是愛上幻覺
當幻覺破滅後，我們是否能夠愛上真實的他????
小說片段
男主角Garrett寫給死去的妻子Catherine
My Dearest Catherine,
I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. I can almost feel you beside me as I write this letter, and I can smell the scent of wildflowers that always reminds me of you. But at this moment these things give me no pleasure. Your visits have been coming less often, and I feel sometimes as if the greatest part of who I am is slowly slipping away.
我親愛的凱薩琳：
思念你，我心愛的人，我總是如此思念你。然而今日特別令人難熬，因大海悠揚歌唱，唱著我們以往的篇章。當我書寫這封情書時，你近在咫尺，我似乎能感受到你在我身旁，並嗅到那總是讓我想起你的野花芬芳。然而此刻，這些美好事物卻未能賦予我樂趣。我記憶中的你，出現地愈來愈稀少，有時我感覺彷彿我自身的重要一部分正逐漸消逝。
想到歌詞
看到小說中的這一句話「我似乎能感受到你在我身旁，並嗅到那總是讓我想起你的野花芬芳。然而此刻，這些美好事物卻未能賦予我樂趣。我記憶中的你，出現地愈來愈稀少，有時我感覺彷彿我自身的重要一部分正逐漸消逝。」就想到歌手伍佰《樹枝孤鳥》裡面的歌詞：
「愛人 妳是去那裡?(佗位)
無代念我情 無代念我意
啊 愛人想妳的香味
望妳快回頭 轉來阮(我)身邊」
小說片段2
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man ─ the prince or knight of
her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. True, there were good men out there ─ men who loved with all their hears and remaned steadfast in the face of great obstacles ─the type man she'd wanted to meet since she and David divorced. But how to find such a man?
作為一位少女，女主角她曾深信這世界上存在著理想的男人(真命天子)── 童話故事中的白馬王子或騎士。但在真實世界裡面，這樣的男子並不存在。現實中的人有真實的目標、真實的需求，對其他人的行為舉止有真實的期望。確實，世上還是有好男人──那些全心愛著愛人，並在面對巨大障礙時保持堅定的男人──正是她與大衛離婚後一直想要遇到的那種男人。但如何找到這樣的男人呢？
看到這個部分，我不禁為作者觀察力感到讚嘆，他指出女生的幻想
回憶：女生不切實際的幻想(我的姊姊)
或許女生那些幻想，來源自愛情小說???
我還記得我小學三年級，我姊姊就從租書店租了一大堆愛情小說回來，我也就跟著看。大概看了十本小說後，覺得真的超級愚蠢。世界上怎麼可能有完美的人，而且裡面的套路好奇怪，要先被虐個百八十回才能證明愛情是真的，10歲的我當時想說
「如果要被這樣虐，我早就跑了，也不要愛情。愛情真是恐怖，這樣奇怪的書，姊姊怎麼那麼愛看？」
雖然覺得我姊姊看這種書很奇怪，但我也跟著他起碼看了上千本，國中開始看BL，高中開始看GL
好處是，小學三年級的我，認得很多國字，因為看了很多我覺得愚蠢的愛情小說
「啊！愛情是不能測試的。裡面的人物都好奇怪。」我想
「難道要像羅密歐和茱麗葉那樣，殉情才能證明愛情的偉大嗎？」10歲的我覺得這世界上的大人真奇怪啊！
小說心得
看到女主角追求永恆的愛情和理想的白馬王子，覺得他真是不切實際，這世界上沒有什麼是永遠存在的、親情、友情、愛情，都不會永遠存在，就像蘇軾先生裡面講的「人生如逆旅，我亦是行人。」誰還不是誰的過客呢？
還理想的白馬王子呢？
到底是多麼的愚蠢才會有這樣的幻想？
這世界沒有完美的人
人無完人，聖人都不敢說自己不會犯錯，在經歷誘惑的時候，誰敢說自己絕對絕對不會心動？可能不會肉體出軌、但是精神出軌呢？
聽歌
看小說的時候，我的背景音樂是什麼呢？
我打開張學友的《情書》
伍佰的《思念親像一條河》《愛情限時批》《心愛的再會啦》《樹枝孤鳥 》
"Unchained Melody" - The Righteous Brothers
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
哈哈哈，我朋友挺佩服我。中文+台語+英文歌這樣聽，他覺得風格差太多
他會出戲
P.S. 我真的挺喜歡伍佰，可能我是台台的台灣人，審美觀很在地ヽ( ° ▽°)ノ
我以前會穿藍白拖鞋+吊嘎，超級台，我是台妹
