回家的路

旅美作家  朱 启

记得看过一部日本电影《千与千寻》，说是有人受到欲望所惑，忘记了自己的名字，结果变成了猪，海吃海争，膘肥体胖，造成了等待让人宰割的悲惨命运。

在探亲访友做客他人家中时，由于人生地不熟，却欲望无穷，东奔西闯，最终忘记了自身的起点，迷失了回家的路。

出国求学谋生，琳琅满目，处处诱惑，在一种身不由己的亢奋和憧憬中乐而忘形，优哉游哉，最终把自己本来不够深刻的传统文化丢弃忘光，甚至连汉语书写也感觉别扭，到头来只能是落了中不中，外不外，土不土，洋不洋的尴尬结局。

更有甚者，有的人一踏上这青山碧水、鸟语花香的异国土地，立马就开始贬低世世代代生之养之的家国故土，开口闭口人家的一切全都时尚光鲜，而自己的祖国一概不行。恨不能一下子融入国外的主流上层，而让自己的祖国分崩离析，从此变为他人的附庸……

发表以上这通感慨，并不是想来证明邻居儿女统统不好，而孩子只有自己家的乖。这个世界的确是日新月异，变化飞快。人们需要打开国籍与族裔的大门，互相交流切磋、沟通融合，最终朝向一个“控制和减缩自身欲望，溶汇和完善地球人类”的总体目标。

有史以来，启迪和推动这个世界变化发展的一切人类进取的智慧与行为，资本融合集散也罢，均平和谐共产也罢，战争与和平，潮来并潮去，得胜也罢，衰亡也罢，最终的归结只能在此一点：人类必须共处在同一个地球。而那些探月窥火（星）的浩渺工程，多少光年过后才能够让人类移师太空？而即使在我们的现世寄居月亮或火星，如此对抗与争夺下去，岂不又成为新一轮走向毁灭的开始？

所以，看来我们还是应当本分点，缩减些欲望和争抢，大家一起来协调支配现有资源，争取让人类得以和平共处，繁衍长久。另外，出门也要谨慎些，面对一切新奇的诱惑，多花一份心思，记住自己的起点，别忘了回家的路。 

作者简介：朱启，本名张玉洪，男，山东诸城人，旅美作家。现居美国加州圣巴巴拉市，北美洛杉矶华文作家协会理事，中国戏剧家协会会员，中外传记文学研究会会员。擅长戏剧与传记文学写作，在各类报刊发表戏剧、影视、小说、散文、诗歌、人物传记、学术论文等200余万字，获海内外文艺创作奖多次。E-mail: [email protected]  [email protected]。

The Way Back Home

By  Qi Zhu

I remember watching a Japanese film entitled, "Spirit a Thousand Miles Away".  It tells about someone who forgot his name and eventually turned out to be a fighting-for-food obese pig.  This film expects the audience to think about the people around us who cannot resist temptation, whose destiny ends up driven by others not by themselves.

When visiting friends, because of the unfamiliar environment or because of borderless desires, people find they have been wandering around back and forth and that they eventually have lost their way back home.

Studying overseas where temptation is everywhere, people may realize they have lost their traditions, perhaps they failed to master them and in the excitement of this new adventure their traditions become lost.  They even feel awkward when writing Chinese.  Eventually they end up embarrassed, caught between two different worlds, in the middle of Chinese culture and Western traditions.

Some people, even worse, belittle their home country where generations of ancestry were raised. They celebrate any, and everything, in and of the visiting country as soon as they land on this foreign soil.  They tend to criticize everything from their home country, because they want so much to assimilate, right away, into the mainstream of the foreign country.

The above comments do not assume that children from neighboring countries do not tend to be good and only my own kind is fine.  This world does develop rapidly and it seems new everyday.  People should open the door to understanding, as well as exchange of ideas and goods; be open to interracial and international communication and to the general goal to "control and reduce personal desires and furthermore to exchange and improve humanity, globally".

Ever since the origin of the history of mankind, intelligence and behavior enlighten and inspire the world to develop. No matter whether economics collects or distributes and regardless of harmony or disharmony, war or peace, tide or wave, win or lose, fall or rise, one fact remains that we, human beings , live on one planet.  How many years before humans are able to inhabit another planet, depends on the Space Project.  Whether we live on the Moon or Mars, facing so much fighting and conflict, would this become just another cycle of devastation?

Therefore, people should know their duty and reduce their desire for fighting. Indeed, people should work together to utilize existing resources to strive to have a peaceful life for humanity, forever.  In addition, be careful with outside temptations.  Think more and remember your starting point. DON'T FORGET THE WAY BACK HOME!

Author's brief introduction: Qi Zhu, original name Yugang Zhang, male, visiting wirter in the U.S. is the Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Barbara Chinese American Association (SBCAA), the Director of the Los Angeles Chinese Writers Association, the member of the Chinese Drama Association, the member of the Auto-/Biography Research Society, He is very good at writing and biography. He has published drama, film, fictions, prose, poetry, biographies and academic theses, etc more than 200 million words in a variety of newspapers. He has been awarded multiple honors in literary and arts domestically and overseas. E-mail: [email protected]。


link: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~ckgao/SBCAA/Newsletter57.pdf