Friday, September 29, 2006

探病有感

最近去探望一位同事,
年紀比我還小,
然而很不幸的,她得了 cancer。
幸好是和一群同事一起去的,
不然,還真是不知道該說什麼。
個人是有悲從中來的感覺。
幸好,同事在旁邊聊天搞笑,
慢漫的溶入他們的話題,
才逐漸好起來。

設身處地的想,這件事的打擊,
絕對不是一時身體上。
想到未來的治療,
以及轉移的可能性,
家計問題,
恐怕都是莫大心理上的煎熬。

身體,的確是最大的財富,
然而往往是最被揮霍的。

常有朋友問說,為何不喝咖啡,
我通常是只回答「會睡不著」。
的確,我只要早上喝一杯咖啡,
大概晚上就不用睡了。

其實若要好的朋友問我的話,
我會跟他們說我的想法,
喝咖啡讓頭腦可以工作的久一點,
然而,「想睡」,應該也是身體的權利吧。
如果想睡,就喝咖啡,
那是不是在過度使用自己的身體呢?
有人說喝咖啡也沒用,
我在想,
是不是其實身體已過度疲勞而不自覺,
因此喝了也沒用?
當然,這只是我的想法而已。

當開始傾聽自己身體的聲音,
或精準一點說,
重視並觀察自己身體的反應,
就會慢慢的發現自己身體對食物的真正喜好。
像吃炸的東西,身體會很難受。
吃宵夜,隔天會有口臭,
胃會不舒服。
吃蔬菜、水果,
會口氣清新。
吃太辣,會拉肚子。

這半年,多注意的結果,
甚至發現自己對牛奶過敏,
喝了就一直冒痘痘。

有人說,你這個不吃、那個不吃,
會活得比我久嗎?也有人說,
誰誰誰抽煙抽了一輩子,
結果活到90多歲…

我認為,這很難說,
我只是儘量作讓自己覺得舒服的事,
在自己可能的範圍內,對自己好一點。
多觀察吃東西的反應,
會發現,有些東西,
其實只是一時之快的享受,
之後身體其實會有不舒服的反應。

另一方面,也覺得很奇怪,
很多人唸了很多書,
但是遇到健康方面的報導,
寧願充耳不聞。或舉一些極端的例子,
來反駁。

六個月前看到一本書,
裏面說「如果不讓你得癌症,
你願意每天11點前睡,
每週至少運動n小時,
吃素嗎?」

運動,我想我做到了。
食物,儘量吃健康些。
睡眠,完全不及格。

現在我對作息的控制仍然很差,
一直無法 control 在11:30前上床睡覺。

加油!!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Lake of Heaven - Crater Lake

In 2001, I took a business trip to California for the software system deployment. It was fortunate that I stayed there over the Labor Day holiday. I took this chance to travel to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon. When I arrived there, it was snowing; however, I didn’t feel cold due to low humidity contrary to that in Taiwan. The size of this volcano lake is 20.42 square miles, around 1/5 the size of Taipei City, which was really astonishing to me – especially its surface was at 1880 meters above the sea level. In addition, it was so blue, and was surrounding by sheer cliffs of high mountains, the tops of which were covered by shining white snow. Two small beautiful islands were located in the center and there were little birds and little cute squirrels jumping and running among the dark trees which were coated sparsely with snow. This immense(or vast) and magnificent scene was so impressive that I will always remember it.