Experience

大選夜看一部好電影還真不賴


As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie,
he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay.

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair in routine and constancy,
in hopelessness and tragedy,
we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies.

And fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies,
we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin
or a kind and loving gesture
or a subtle encouragement
or a loving embrace
or an offer of comfort.

Not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs
and uneaten Danish
and soft-spoken secrets
and Fender Stratocasters
and maybe the occasional piece of fiction.

And we must remember that all these things,
the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties which we assume only accessorize our days are,
in fact, here for a much larger and nobler cause:

They are here to save our lives.

I know the idea seems strange.
But I also know that it just so happens to be true.