暖冬cool夏
這裏一年四季溫暖如春，沒有酷暑沒有嚴寒......
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自從年初用裏程數換報紙和一大堆雜誌後，家中除了每天報紙外，隔三差五的還有一大堆雜誌塞在郵箱裏。報紙每天都看不完，雜誌就更沒有時間讀了。上星期來了一本厚厚重重的雜誌，塑料紙裹著，打開一看，是九月的一期Vogue雜誌，當初訂下來是想給女兒看的。
周日，我心不在焉地打開，發現這厚如教科書，重如磚頭的雜誌有774頁，是紀念Vogue雜誌125周年的專刊，裏麵大量充斥的自然是廣告(廣告估計就占了600頁了)，鋪天蓋地的美女(基本沒有男士的，偶爾有，也是配角), 年輕貌美，身材高挑，穿著各種漂亮時髦，或是稀奇古怪的衣服，透明半透明，裸露半裸露地，擺著各種性感不性感的姿勢，搔首弄姿，讓人不禁感慨這服裝世界如此絢爛。服裝該是為女人而存在的。
我想我和她們是生活在不同世界裏的。一直以為，這些人妖豔、胭脂粉味太濃，有時候的著裝光怪陸離，跟我這個土的掉渣的中年大媽格格不入。記得那日，我是帶著幾分新奇又有幾分不屑，悠然坐在庭院裏，在秋日微風中，翻著這帶香水味的雜誌，倒也覺得幾分微熏。當我真正耐下心來，讀起其中的文字時，禁不住為其和服裝一樣精美的文字叫好。想想不足為奇的，有錢嘛，總能請到一等一的專業寫手為她們潤稿寫傳的。文章有國際名模分享她如何克服心理，麵對鏡頭，拍出最美的自己的體會，有名牌鞋子設計師如何希望自己的美鞋能被普通人穿上的感慨 ( I'd like to see ordinary people wearing things that are beautiful. ), 還有如何利用一根98美分一尺的絲帶給秀發添美的短文，這些文字裏有著真實，真誠，讓我走進這些名人的世界，也同時被感動了一番。
這本厚厚的雜誌我隻翻閱了四分之一，它除了在給我視覺上的享受之外，也給了我小小的思考。世界上任何東西的存在都是有它的合理性，更別提時裝這麽popular的東西。我自己可以不逐流，不追求時尚或名牌，但是不能自視清高，抽離這個世界，重要的是任何時候要being open- minded, 了解新事物，與時俱進，這樣才不至於被洶湧向前的時代所淘汰，這樣才不會置身於精彩紛呈的世界之外，而無緣於它的美和多姿多彩。
Ever since we redeemed the flight mileage points in January, we are inundated by daily newspaper and monthly magazines. While majority of newspaper was read half or less than half, magazines were barely touched. I stacked them at the bottom of the book shelves, seeing them collecting dust, and wishing that one day I will have time to read them. The newly arrived September edition of Vogue almost has the same fate. But somehow it caught my attention when I tried to pick it up, a magazine as thick as a textbook and as heavy as a brick. Standing out on the front cover are five bold golden letters, and a cover girl in golden dress taking the place of the middle letter G. It turns out that the edition is a special one for celebrating its 125th anniversary.
The 774 pages magazine abounds with pages after pages of advertisements, from top luxury brands to household affordable brands, such as Channel, Gucci, Hermes, Fendi, Calvin Klein … you name it. As I leafed through the perfume scented pages, gazing at the exquisite young faces and sexy postures of the world models, I felt like walking into a different world, a world that is above me, a world that I once despised to be snobbish, vanity and material that I’d like to shut myself out of it without even laying eyes on. But isn’t it an eye opener to look at something beautiful and luxurious, even though it is beyond my affordability?
It is not just that. Had I stopped at the pictures, I would have never got a chance to read the beautifully written essays about how the celebrity grew up from nobody to somebody, their inner feelings, sentiment, or journey of becoming an iconic image. Topic such as “Always on My Mind” made me ask myself “what is always on my mind”. Book excerpt of “Sands of Time” reminds me that time only has one direction--forward. Maybe one day our memory will bizarrely selective about what adheres and what falls away, at least we can choose now to live a life more vibrant, lively and multicolored. We don’t have to follow the suit, but at the same time it is not wise to keep ourselves aloof from the kaleidoscopic world that is dazzling and on a constant move.
Fashion changes. Trends come and go. While it is something, like simplicity, that stood the test of time that we shall be seeking after in the end, it is not a bad idea to keep ourselves abreast with the ever changing world.
That's easy for me: health ;-)