周一(3/7/2022)
現在縂能在床上觀察一下日出。給人很安靜的感覺。看到三聯美食的公衆號裏提到了蘇州的麵條,就想起那年我們四個去蘇州吃蘇軾麵條。聰一直念念不忘“細面面”。
跟謹雯說了周末因爲膝蓋磨壞了,所以沒有參加大家一起去看臘梅。結果她就把她同事去踏春的照片給我發過來了。
周二(3/8/2022)
今天是忙碌的一天。半天上班,兩個會議,而且還都需要好好地參與。發覺如果再不拍個照片,馬上就要結束拼圖了。
沒有想到一個晚上2個半小時就拼完了。喜歡大片的拼圖,讓人感覺非常的放心。
周三(3/9/2022)
抓住大地的喧嚣中挥动的翅膀
“然而我个人最为感佩和推崇的却是这些小文章的文学性。从这些短短的文章你既可以认出西文散文写作的悠游、隽永的风格,又可以识别从古希腊罗马传承至今的修辞学的修养,汉语读者同样可以读出微言大义、春秋笔法。在信息泛滥的今天,这些人物的简介和生平我们大多可以通过搜索引擎获得,然而,首先你得通过他们的视角获得这样一个名单,其次,通过这样的写法,你获得的不仅仅是信息。这使我们今天还能相信内容选择和文学写作的力量。这同样也能说明为何你需要这本书。
随着编辑的过程,《讣告》中这201个人物对我来说都成了熟人,他们的样貌我已经熟记在心,他们的生平随着作者高妙的笔法,化为某种个性,即使那些具体的事迹已经淡忘,但他们留给我的感觉无法抹去,久而久之,你对某些人产生了一种情感。你牵挂他,在其他地方看到他的名字、作品或相关故事的时候,心里会一动;你想念他,你会兴奋地对朋友说起他,就像说起一个久未谋面的故人。
那么,最让我牵挂的都是谁呢?让我合上书本,只凭记忆:我牵挂那位“世界上最安静的小丑”,他之所以一语不发是因为他要背负犹太人被屠杀的历史,并用肢体语言将这一最大的伤痛、无法言说的不解表达出来。
我很喜欢作者写到的那位“花园里的跳蚤专家”,一位老派科学家,作为罗斯柴尔德家族的一员,她除了不需要为生计发愁,也从不需要进入任何体系,她的科学研究是人类最原初的、出于好奇心的钻研。“当她发现跳蚤也有阴茎时,她倾向于相信上帝是存在的。”
我被那位“蜜蜂拯救者”、养蜂的修士所激励:他身体并不强健,“再也不能工作”早就是医生的老生常谈,有几次,他已经接受了临终告解,却因为担心他的蜜蜂,就又从床上爬了起来。最终他活了98岁。
还有一位活了98岁的“热情奔放的日本人”宇野千代,她在二十世纪三十年代的日本就勇敢而激进地过独立自由的生活,并用大胆直率优美的写作惊讶世人。在日本文学界美化死亡的倾向之中,她却说那是男人的意淫,一百岁之前的死亡都是意外,是粗心或轻率造成的。她去世时离一百岁差十八个月,不过已经足以证明她的观点。
说到热情奔放的女性,我总是马上回想起海蒂·拉玛的那张完美无瑕又带着天真的脸,讣告作者说她是“a body as well as a mind”,中文尽最大努力翻译成“美貌与智慧兼具的女人”,似乎损失了英文语境中的一些意思。最近随着智能手机的普及,她的发明专利被更经常的提起,不过,是这样的发明家头脑和那样的奋不顾身竟综合在一具完美的身体上,更深刻地冲击着我们对人类多样性的认识。
我甚至见过其中的一位,雅克·德里达于2004年去世,他2001年到访中国时,在北京求学的我与朋友一起去北大旁听他的讲座,我依稀记得题目与“宽恕”有关,他的声音温和、平缓,杜小真老师担任翻译并没有让他的话变得易懂,我们在词语的迷雾中度过了一个膜拜法国思想的昏昏欲睡的下午。
而我的最爱当属俄罗斯大提琴家罗斯特罗波维奇,除了是“世界上最伟大的大提琴家”,罗斯特罗波维奇的最显著特点是他的激情,他在俄罗斯历史的关键时刻准备战斗,也在东欧的一些历史时刻边演奏边流泪,他与众多音乐家发展出奇特的友谊,用战斗民族的熊抱跟他们打招呼,当他的好友、英国作曲家布里顿去世后,他每次就去“拥抱他的坟墓”。
前言中提到,本书本可能使用“麻雀的飞行”做书名,其中暗含着英国宗教哲学家比德(Bede)的隐喻:“人生就像一只飞过宴会厅的麻雀,从黑暗中飞来,又没入黑暗,其间只有明亮的一刻。”而“飞过的那一刻——在大地的喧嚣中挥动的翅膀——是我们必须抓住的。”
这与我们喜爱的诗人苏东坡的诗句,何其相似又互为负片:“人生到处知何似?应似飞鸿踏雪泥。泥上偶然留指爪,鸿飞那复计东西。”
周四(3/10/2022)
Moving forward, not moving on
“Moving forward” or “moving on”. They sound like such similar phrases, don’t they? But in the context of grief the difference between “on” or “forward” is huge.
When you’re grieving for a precious pet – or indeed a person who you love – people will often say things like, “Isn’t it time you moved on?” or “You’ll move on eventually” or even, “I’m glad to see you’ve moved on”.
But the idea of moving on from a loved one can be incredibly distressing.
Moving on implies leaving something behind. It suggests that the animal, for example, was a moment or place that you can put behind you when, in fact, he or she was a member of your family and you’ll never get over that loss – not in the way that moving on implies, anyway.
The connotations of “moving on”
While people who haven’t experienced grief might like to think it has an endpoint, those of us who have lost someone we love, including a pet, know that there is no cut off point for our feelings.
Grief doesn’t come with a timeline, whereas the phrase “moving on” suggests that it does.
Other vocabulary people use can suggest the same thing. You might have someone say to you, “I’m glad to see you’re feeling better now” or be party to a conversation in which someone says, “I don’t think they ever got over the loss of their <insert loved one>”. People often talk about “closure”, as though you can simply close the cover on the book of grief.
Such phrases imply that there will come a moment when the grief is done and dusted. When it isn’t, it can make us feel like there’s something wrong with us.
But there truly isn’t.
We don’t move on from grief
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a powerful TED talk from Nora McInerny filmed in 2018 in which she talks about how we can never truly move on from grief, only forward.
Although her insights came from losing a child, her dad and her husband in a few short months, her insights apply to all grief. The talk is well worth a watch.
Why it’s better to talk about “moving forward”
As McInerny tells us, it is far more compassionate and realistic to talk about moving forward after a bereavement.
When a pet dies, our love for them is still very much present. We expect them to be waiting for us when we get home or listen for the sounds of them moving around like they always did. We slip into the present tense when we talk about them because we think about them all the time and they will never just be left in the past.
Our pets help to shape us and so they are forever a part of our identities.
You would not be the person you are today without the animal you have lost. You made memories together, felt joy because of them, built your life around them.
How can you move on from someone who has fundamentally changed you?
Learning to live with grief
Inevitably though, we do have to find a way to move forward.
As much as we can feel frozen in our grief, life will keep moving and we are left with no choice but to find a way to live in the world without our loved one.
But it isn’t that our grief eventually shrinks, it’s that we learn how to grow around it.
This is the theory of Dr Tonkin’s model of grief, which is illustrated below. This model suggests that grief actually remains as big and present as it has always been but, with time, your life will begin to grow around it.
You will experience new things, meet new people, have new pets, learn new skills, visit new places, enabling the space around your grief to get bigger. This is the process of moving forward.
Grief isn’t an either/or emotion. It’s not that you feel grief and nothing else.
In fact, grief can be present while you experience other emotions too. You can grieve for your pet and still feel happy and smile. You can be grieving and still experience joy. You can even love another pet while yearning for the one you lost.
People in The Ralph Site Facebook community often share the saying that “Grief is just love that has nowhere to go”.
How true.
If we believe this, then we can move forward knowing that grief is the locket that holds our love inside of us.
And maybe that’s a special thing, to have a love that we carry always. Why would we want to “move on” and leave love in the past when we can move forward and hold it with us forever?
If you need to talk to someone about how to move forward in your pet loss grief, you can find a list of pet bereavement counsellors on The Ralph Site. Our active Facebook community also provides a safe and accepting space to talk.
There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Only your way.
Just know that you are not alone.
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