在回家的公車上,突然有種感覺:覺得迷失(lost),好像有什麼掉了。但沒辦法確切說出來,為什麼我會這樣感覺。
於是我開始胡思亂想:「我覺得很迷失,是哪一種樣子的『lost』 呢?」
# 1
是像 —— 「喔!我的球掉了!」那樣的「lost」嗎?我失去了某種具體的、物質的東西,我只要把它拿回來就可以。

# 2
還是像 —— 「喔,我失去平衡了!」那樣的嗎?我失衡了,我需要重新找到自己的平衡。

# 3
心碎的時候,心裡空空的,也會覺得好像失去了什麼。
覺得自己有所破損、而不完整的迷失。
This is the kind of “lost” that I feel I’m incomplete and broken as a person.

# 4
有的時候,是回過頭來才明白當時為何感覺迷失 —— 因為我出外探險了;我在我的舒適圈外。
做一些以前沒試過的嘗試,或是面對從來沒正視的情緒
There’s another kind of lost that I often realize afterward, in reflection. I realize I was “lost” because I was out exploring. I went out of my comfort zone.
It could mean I was doing things I’ve never done before, or I was facing the emotions I’ve never faced before.

這並不舒服,不像撿起地上的球一樣簡單;但我並沒有破損。
我失去了平衡,卻不只是回到「原本的平衡」—— 我變得更大了:以前所不能容納的,現在是我的一部分。
有時候,迷失 ⋯⋯ 找到,讓人變得更大。
It was uncomfortable. It was not as easy as retrieving a dropped ball. But I was neither broken nor incomplete.
I was out of balance, but I didn’t just go back to the original “balanced” me. I became bigger. The things that weren’t in my comfort zone, have become part of me.
Sometimes, you become bigger, when you have lost …. and found.
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