She grew up in a blue-collar family, and her father was a sawmill worker without much education. After she graduated from college and became a writer, she visited, for the first time, her father's workplace. The noisy factory had sawdust everywhere, and her father was already getting old but was still doing heavy work in such a harsh environment.
Seeing her burst of sadness, her father brought her to his seat. On a small table in the corner, there was a picture frame. With sawdust above blown appeared a familiar faded photo of a sweet little smiling girl, which turned out to be her childhood photo. Her father looked at her, giggled, "In the past three decades, whenever I felt tired, I came here to have a look at it, to tell myself that all the hard work is worthwhile."
她出生在一個藍領家庭,父親沒有受過多少教育,一輩子當鋸木工廠的工人。直到她大學畢業成為作家,才第一次有機會到她爸爸的工廠參觀。工廠裏噪音隆隆,木屑塵埃四起,她爸爸已經有點老邁,還在這惡劣的環境裏做著粗重的工作。
看得她一陣心酸,她爸爸卻領她到他的座位。小桌子的角落有一個相框,吹開上麵的木屑塵埃,泛黃的照片裏一個熟悉的小女孩甜美的笑著,竟然是自己童年的照片。爸爸看著她傻笑∶“三十年來,每當我累了,來這裏看看,就知道一切辛苦都是值得的。”
鋸木工和女兒/Sawmill Worker & Daughter
所有跟帖:
• 支持一下。中文是你的還是E文是你的。:) -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2012 postreply 23:29:55
• 回複: -Lucidus- ♂ (18606 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 07:48:26
• Good question! -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 16:25:20
• what was the daughter's reaction? -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 08:52:22
• 回複: -Lucidus- ♂ (33 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 10:14:24
• 塵滿麵,鬢如霜. -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 12:22:13
• Exactly -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 12:37:33
• 小桌子的角落 - On a small table in the corner ? -only-reader- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2012 postreply 22:54:54
• Corner ... -Lucidus- ♂ (709 bytes) () 11/15/2012 postreply 06:25:58
• 默默的父愛,感人。 -斕婷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2012 postreply 08:04:59
• Absolutely -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2012 postreply 09:54:35