提 要

《About Time》主角提姆的父親）在他二十一歲生日那天告訴他，他們家族的男人，滿二十一歲時都有「時光旅行」（回到回憶中任何時間的能力），雖然無法改變歷史，但他能改變自己人生中發生過的事。主角在一次次穿越的過程中、嘗試過不同的可能，逐漸體會到如何去享受、珍惜每一天。

劇中的對白，也是感動讀者觀眾珍惜生命中的每一天的佳句。

1. We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

2. Maybe, just maybe, I'm the faller. Every family has someone who falls, who doesn’t make the grade, who stumbles, who life trips up. Maybe I’m our faller.

3. Good. It's very bad for a girl to be too pretty. It stops her developing a sense of humor, or a personality.

4. No one can ever prepare you for what happens when you have a child. When you see the baby in your arms and you know that it's your job now. No one can prepare you for the love and the fear.

5. There's a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.

6. And so he told me his secret formula for happiness. Part one of the two-part plan was that I should just get on with ordinary life, living it day by day, like anyone else.

But then came part two of Dad's plan. He told me to live every day again almost exactly the same. The first time with all the tensions and worries that stop us noticing how sweet the world can be, but the second time noticing. Okay, Dad. Let's give it a go.

7. And in the end I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I've even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.

解 說

1. 我們每天都在一起時空旅行。我們所能做的，就是盡全力欣賞這個卓越旅程的滋味。

2. 也許，只是也許而已，我是失敗者。每個家庭都有一個落後的失敗者，成績不佳、總是跌跌撞撞、不停地犯錯。也許我就是我們家的那個「失敗者」。

3.（自己覺得不漂亮）很好。一個女孩太漂亮是很糟糕的事，那會妨礙她培養幽默感，或良好的個性。

4. 當你有孩子時，沒有人可以為會發生的事準備周全。當看到寶寶在懷裡，你會知道這是你的工作，隨之而來的愛與恐懼也無法預測。

5. 巴茲魯曼（電影導演）有一首歌叫〈防曬乳〉。他說，擔心未來就像用嚼泡泡糖來解決代數方程式一樣「有效」。生活中真正會產生的問題，是永遠不會讓你想到「需要擔心的事情」。

6. 所以他告訴我，他的幸福秘訣：兩部分計畫的第一部分，是我就過著平凡的日子，像其他任何人一樣地生活；然後是老爸計畫的第二部分，他告訴我，每天再一次過同樣的一天，幾乎與第一次完全一樣。第一次過這一天，因為緊張和憂慮，妨礙我們注意這世界原來是這麼美好，但第二次過這一天，就會注意到了。好的，爸爸，讓我們試試吧！

7. 最後，我相信已經從自己的時光旅行中學到了最後一課，我甚至比我父親更進一步。事實上就是，我現在根本不回到過去，一天也不去。我只是竭盡所能地把握每天的生活，如同我刻意回到同一天的那樣，享受它，彷彿那是我非凡人生中，平凡生活的最後一天。