8/31秋季長跑--'二選一後的選擇（2）

What he described made me think the movie” the way we were” and something people of middle-age talked about all the time----now our kids have all grown up, it’s time for us to live our own ways.

 

Beverley’s pleasant, delicate make-up face emerged in my mind, “his name is Hell-mar“, she told me her husband’s name in a formal social manner. (I thought he is her husband at that time, actually I was wrong, he is her ex-husband).” HE—LL, Same pronunciation as go to the hell” she whispered to my ear with a girlish funny-looking face. She is funny even she shoudl be 60s, I realized at that moment.

 

“I was a runner since I was in high school, I have been running for 58 years. When I was young, I run and bike.  I can’t stop, I am 74 now, I don’t have to work, but I want to get something to do. Same as her. Now she gets a job, being principle's  secretary of high school. The cross country coach decided not coming at the last minute, she called me and asked me to come. I got her call last night and showed up today.”

 

When my son got home, I asked him how he felt about the running tryout. “it’s better than soccer.”he said.

Ok, I am happy to hear this! “

I can imagine his trace, crossing the spacious park turf, along the well maintained sidewalk, passing the pasture covered with late summer wild flowers , then into the shady wood…running in nature is such a nice thing, I knew it.

 

“I hope someday you would like to run by yourself, running or walking in nature can be a lifelong hobby. It means a lot---physical building, meditation, healing, inspiration...

 

A friend of mine planted fruit trees in their back yard. they planted fig, a unquie tree in my eyes. I only had dried fig when I was in China,  never had a fresh one. I have been asking how their figs grow. almost like two months ago, the wife told me there are a lot of purple figs on that small tree already.  but in the past two month, they stopped growing.  yesterday she told me"it's so strange, just over a night, the stopped growing purple figs grew much bigger and turning riping purple! so strange! happened over a night!"

"these figs just like boys" I said.

 

last night me and my son talked about the year around sports in school. he said instead of playing Lacrosse in spring, he would like to do track running, and there are hurdles on the track. "  I never heard about this word, so he explained to me. I said :"ok, I know what you mean, those are a series of obstacles on the track. do you know one of the best 110 metre hurdling runner in Asian history? 劉翔”

“I knew"

"How did you know?"

"I knew it when I was in China."

"I am very happy you start liking running, then run in the park during the no school days. "

"no. I like running with companies. it's fun."

"I see, you need run with group of people." 

"Yes" 

 "it's normal, I heard a lot of people saying this. but you should learn being alone,  you can only manage your time, not others.  sometimes you have to do something by yourself. " 

He nodded, meaning he agree.

星期日，JACK來了。他帶來了大功率的電池，來看是否能將飛機與遙控器連接起來。兒子與老先生坐在陽台上邊擺弄，邊交談，我洗碗，內心充滿了感激又喜悅。一個小時後，他們進到屋內，JACK 告訴我說還是不行，說飛機是中國製造的，中國的東西真是又好又便宜，就是說明手冊不好，所用的語言表述很不專業，讓內行人摸不著頭腦。我說這應該是翻譯的人不懂技術，隻照著字麵意思翻譯的結果。他說他兒子還在住院，已經住了一個多月了，剛從ICU病房轉到普通病房。問他他兒子得了什麽病，他說是一種罕見的與基因有關的病。他兒子52歲，在發現這種病前，身體和一強壯健康。他說得這種病的人一般都在四十歲左右發病，因為這種病會引發心髒驟停，所以很危險。現在他兒子的胸腔裏被植入了一個小電子設備，用以時時監測心髒工作狀況。作為一個電子工程師，他首先想到的是如何給那個東西充電。

 

他穿鞋時，我發現他彎腰有些困難，給他搬了一個張椅子。他才說他做過換KNEES手術。手術第二天就回家了，比換KNEES前好多了。問他是何原因引起的KNEE老損，他說年輕時他喜歡HIKING。我說看來要控製一下運動量，以防部件老損。”但人生就是這樣，如果你顧這顧那，那活著也就沒什麽意思了。“ 這是一個76歲老人的話，意思是如果讓他重新回到年輕時，他還是會做他喜歡做的事，就算當時可以預知今天的換KNEES. 

 

有了上次的室內沒戴口罩交談，這次與他的交談我也不再有顧慮了。畢竟，人家老者來家幫你，人家不戴口罩，你卻戴著口罩，那種心理感覺確實不好。室內通風很好，感覺還好。我都這樣，也就可以想想年輕人在一起會怎樣了。