Hospital Window 醫院的窗戶

 |2017.06.25
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提 要

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy. "Today is a gift", that is why it is called "The Present."(如果想感覺富有,只要算一算自己擁有但金錢買不到的東西。「現在」是值得把握的贈與,所以叫做「禮物」。)

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room’s only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

Two men talked for hours on end.

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.

Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.

She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

解 說

兩名重病的男子共用同一間病房。

其中一個人每天下午可以坐在床上一個小時,以幫助他的肺部排出液體,他的床在病房唯一的窗戶旁邊。

另一個人則必須長時間平躺。

這兩個男人聊個不停,他們談他們的妻子和家人、庭園、工作,他們服過的兵役、在哪裡度假。

每天下午,當床在窗邊的的男人可以坐起來時,他會向室友仔細描述所有可以在窗外看到的東西。

另一張床上的男人開始為這一個小時而活,他的世界被窗外多采多姿的活動擴大視野、生氣盎然。

那窗戶俯瞰一個有美麗湖泊的公園。

鴨子和天鵝在水上戲耍,孩子們玩模型船。年輕的戀人捧著繽紛的花朵相擁,遠處可以看到美麗的城市天際線。

當窗邊男人鉅細靡遺地描述這些細節時,房間的一邊的男人會閉上眼睛,想像這個風景如畫的場景。

一個溫暖的下午,窗邊男人說,一個遊行隊伍正在通過。

雖然另一個男人聽不到樂隊的聲音 ,但經由窗邊男人生動地描繪,他可以在心中「看到」。

幾天,幾周、幾個月過去了。

一天早上,白天班的護士送洗澡水時發現窗邊男人沒有生命跡象,他在睡眠中安詳地去逝了。

她非常傷心,聯絡醫院服務員把遺體帶走。

等到似乎合適的時候,另一人問護士,他是否可以移動到窗邊。護士很樂意幫忙搬床,在確定他舒服之後,她離開了。

緩慢而痛苦地,他用一隻手肘撐起自己,首度親眼看看窗外的世界。

他緊張地轉身,從床邊窗戶看出去。

窗戶的對面是一堵空牆。

那個男人問護士,什麼原因驅使他的室友把窗外的景象描述成那般美好?

護士告訴他,那個男人是盲人,根本連牆都看不到。

她說:「也許他只是想鼓勵你。」

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