Remember to think this way

幾個月前當坐在骨外科醫生診療室外等待時,同樣也在等著的一個女孩好奇的問我:

「你是為什麼來看骨外科的啊?」

「我騎腳踏車時被一台小卡車撞到,他將我撞倒在地,從我身上碾過,後又倒車再次碾過⋯他這樣重複了3次⋯然後當他終於停下來時他居然將小卡車停止在我的腳踝上⋯所以我來看骨外科。」

Few months back while waiting outside the Orthopaedic surgeon’s room, another girl also waiting asked me :

“So why are you here to see the surgeon?” 

“I was hit by an ute on my bicycle, he knocked me over, drove over me, then he back the ute over me... and he repeated it 3 times... and when he finally stopped he stopped the ute right on my ankle... so I’m here to see the surgeon.” 

在我解釋的過程中,女孩的眼裡逐漸被恐懼充滿,她用手蓋著自己的嘴驚呼道:

「妳一定是一個好人,才可以這樣劫後餘生!」

Through my explanation the girl’s eyes were gradually filled with horror, she covered her mouth and gasped:

“You must be a good person to have survived that!” 

⋯那倒是我從來沒有過的一個想法。自從年初的車禍以來,我不停的質疑自己,為什麼這樣的事情要發生在我身上?我是做了什麼壞事才受到這樣的懲罰嗎?畢竟肇事司機的行為屬於過失殺人,只不過他沒有成功的拿走我的生命。女孩說的話讓我恢復了一些正能量。

... that was a thought I never had. After the accident at beginning of the year, I constantly questioned why it happened to me? Have I done something bad that I deserved such punishment? After all what the driver did was manslaughter, except he failed to take my life. What the girl said restored some positivity in me. 

在我進去骨外科醫生診療室時,女孩說:

「祝妳好運!要繼續做妳在做的好事喔!」

⋯是的。繼續前進,繼續相信。

Before I head into the surgeon’s room, she said :

“Good luck! And keep doing whatever good you did!” 

... Yes. Keep going, keep believing