【#蕭叔叔的英國文學課】「你最近好嗎？」
普天同慶的日子，多愁善感的肥叔同大家睇D慘豬野。
主題係舊愛的問候：「你最近好嗎？」
"He used to ask me all the time if I was okay.
As though he never knew for sure.
He would ask me when he was tired or frustrated or when he felt helpless.
He would ask me when he was afraid.
He asked me that same question, long after we stopped being lovers - when we became something less yet somehow more.
Are you okay? He would whisper on the phone late at night, when she was asleep or had gone to her mother’s for the weekend. Are you okay?
He hasn’t asked me in years, but I know he still thinks it. I know the question still reverberates in his mind like a broken record and he will keep looking for answers long after there is nothing left to appease him.
It was always the same question, over and over again. Like the start of a procession.
And it took me years to recognise the unsaid words that marched silently behind.
Are you okay; because I love you.
Are you okay; because I need you.
Are you okay; because I don’t know how to live without you."
作者是Lang Leav，書名The Universe of Us.
Uncle Siu
