WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE… 關於愛情，我所說的其實是…

I don’t know why many of my dearest friends are recently struggling in love troubles. Every time when we talk about the issue of love, I can’t help thinking of the novel “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, written by renowned American author Raymond Carver. It seems that he is trying to depict the truth behind love by extracting every trivial matter from a mundane life, yet indeed illustrating the alienation and lonesome of modern people through simple narratives. Sometimes I really wanna persuade my friends to decisively escape from this kind of troubles, yet it is destined to fail. The reason may be simple: Loneliness is something we can never withstand.

不知是因為聖誕節剛過去，抑或是情人節即將來臨的緣故，身邊好友的感情煩惱特別多。每次跟他們若有其事地談論愛情時，我都想起著名美國作家卡佛的小說《當我們談論愛情時我們在談論什麼》。故事情節簡單，都擷取自生活的零碎片段，看似是描繪愛情的本相，但實質卻是借愛情敘述來折射出現代人的疏離、寂寞。每當看見友人愁眉不展，便想劈頭跟他們說一句，既然殘酷是愛情的真相，那為何還要一頭栽進去呢。呃，原因也許簡單不過：我們都寂寞。