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My graduation morning stands out as a defining moment in my life,s story,revealing a strength of character and purpose that I,m proud to call my own.

毕业日是个特别的日子。在过去的四年里,你完全沉浸在自己的朋友圈里,突然间就把注意力转向了家庭和未 来。有那么几个星期,你开启了“生存模式”——在深夜吃着比萨准备毕业论文、结业考试,毕业聚会更是让 人应接不暇。接着,你突然就迎来这一天:你最终正式走出这个世界,这个曾经构成你生命的全部的世界。

我清楚地记得那个阳光明媚的五月。我和室友们住在校园外面的公寓里,那里住的都是高年级学生。在衣帽间 大小的宿舍里住了两年之后搬进了这栋三室的公寓,简直是进入了天堂。

毕业典礼的那天早晨,大家在公寓里忙着典礼前的准备工作——梳发型、穿学士服、戴学士帽。家人也纷纷赶 来参加传统的典礼前的早午餐。因为我爸妈不久前离婚了,所以这一天预先被合理地分成两部分:先和妈妈、 继父吃一顿简餐,之后再同爸爸及他的女朋友享用一顿大餐。当然,每个人都会出席我的毕业典礼,只是座位 分在不同的区位。

室友麦琪的爸妈最先到,然后安妮的爸妈也来了。大家都徘徊在公寓里等着我的家人。我一点儿也不着急,还 催促他们先离开公寓。

当他们都离开公寓之后,电话响起了。是我妹妹罗宾打来的,她在电话那头抽泣着。他们不是误点,不是堵车,也不是遇到事故,而是压根就没出发。我妈妈大醉酩酊。

公寓里变得空荡荡、静悄悄的,我的孤独感在蔓延。收到这样的消息,我该怎样面对室友以及他们的家人?

“为什么?”我强忍着掉下的眼泪,心中暗想,“为什么是今天?为什么是我?”

我挂上电话,感觉心中的兴奋被一扫而空,取而代之的是冰冷的空虚。我打算对室友及他们的家人撒谎;打算 索性不去参加毕业典礼;我希望自己压根就没来到这个世上。

我希望自己不是生在这样混乱的家庭里,我希望这样的故事没有发生在我身上。这算哪门子的毕业礼物啊?

我深呼一口气,将悲伤呼出去,将决心吸进来,我告诉自己:今天是我毕业的日子。这是对我过去的四年努力 求知、学习的祝贺。这是属于我的日子!我才是主角!

我将学士袍、学士帽搭在肩膀上,开始往校园走。我一直穿行在校园里,直到走进我们的“集中营”。打开沉 重的大门,不见了灼热的阳光,我走进了凉爽、潮湿的阴暗里。尽管还是早晨,而且还是毕业的日子,我看见 还是有个同学在喝啤酒。我跳着坐上吧台的高脚凳,和他一起喝起来,还摆有点心。在我们旁边的隔间里,另 一个朋友正和家人一起围坐一起。我又找回了存在感,既苦又甜的归属感。酒和点心下肚,我决定把这一天当 作属于自己的日子来过,于是便前往毕业典礼现场。

我对那天的记忆并不多。因为我的大部分好朋友都是商学院的,所以我坐在相对陌生的文理学院的学生中间——这也省得我去解释我今早的遭遇。我有一张照片,照片上我接过毕业证书,脸上洒满阳光。接着,我和朋友 们拥抱告别,然后回到家人当中。爸爸带我去了我最爱的那家高级意大利餐厅。尽管我十分按捺不住,但我还 是没有谈论起妈妈的事以及早晨发生的事,尤其是当着未来后妈的面。我和妹妹隔着桌子相视而笑,眼里带着 疲惫,心中带着伤。

那个夏天,妈妈酗酒越来越厉害。为了逃离现实,我离开了家。秋天,当同学们开始了自己的职业生涯的时候,我没有选择踏入现实社会,而是选择了做一个背包客,走遍了欧洲。

毕业典礼的那天早晨在我的生命历程中熠熠夺目,那是我人生决定性的一个时刻。它表明我可以骄傲地说,我 有自己独特的个性和方向。

peculiar

【释义】n. 特权;特有财产 adj. 特殊的;独特的;奇怪的;罕见的

【短语】a peculiar mode of thinking 特殊的思维方式

immerse

【释义】vt. 沉浸;使陷入

【短语】immerse yourself in sth. 专心于

abruptly

【释义】adv. 突然地;唐突地

be abuzz with 忙于……

practically

【释义】adv. 实际地;几乎;事实上

【短语】practically certain 十拿九稳

emptiness

【释义】n. 空虚;无知

【短语】emptional emptiness 精神空虚

drape

【释义】n. 窗帘 vt. 用布帘覆盖 vi. 成褶皱状垂下

【短语】be draped in 覆盖

barstool

【释义】n. 酒吧高脚凳

upscale

【释义】adj. 迎合高层次消费者的;质优价高的 vt. 升高一级

【短语】upscale living area 高档生活区

Masks and Walls/ 面具和心墙

Running.“What are you running from?”The question haunts her mind,lurking around the corner waiting to catch a stray thought and be carried into the open.“Running? I,m not running from anything.”She tells herself. She tells the world. Her carefully formed mask giving nothing away. But she,s crumbling,with nobody there to help put her back together when she falls. It,s her doing. She shut them out. Wouldn,t let them have even the slightest of glimpse behind the mask. So there,s none even suspicious that she wears a mask. They just believe it is her; blindly trusting in what she shows them.

The real her is long gone. Running from the world,too afraid to let down the walls safely built around her heart. Walls under so much pressure,they threaten to break,come crashing to the ground.“Just a couple more hours,”she tells herself to be strong. She will not let her walls down around people; never around people.

On she builds,brick by brick,wall by wall,an impenetrable fortress surrounding her heart,her mind. She convinces the world nothing hurts her. She convinces herself nothing hurts her.“A heart of stone,”some might say.“Well,if that,s what it takes to survive,”she thinks,“so be it.”So she builds on.

She wears the mask and she builds her walls,not because she lacks the want for love and understanding,but to protect against heartbreak and the fear that nobody understands,nobody loves freely. One must understand to love.“How can they love someone they don,t understand?” she asks herself.“How can they understand someone who doesn,t understand herself? How can they love someone so weak she has to hide behind walls?”

So as the years pass,the walls stay up. If no one gets through them soon,love will become a fantasy,a far off dream,a distant wish she once had,but cannot remember. It will be unable to reach her. A heart of stone she pretends to have and so a heart of stone she will one day carry. She must learn to trust or it will be too late.

It,s not a question of love or hate. It,s simply her heart telling her she,s too late. She built her walls of stone so high and hid behind her mask of indifference for so long that what the world saw became her reality. The wall is a prison and the mask is her own personal nightmare.“Is it ever too late to let love in?”she wonders. She will soon find that the hardest part was not building the walls,but instead,tearing them back down.

逃离。“你想要逃离什么?”这个问题常萦绕在她心头,潜伏在角落里等待着抓住一丝偏离的想法,等着被公 之于众。“逃离?我并非在逃离什么。”她告诉自己。她告诉全世界。她小心翼翼戴起的面具让她不会泄露任 何心事。但是,她正在慢慢破碎崩塌,没有人在她倒下的时候扶起她。这都怪她自己。她拒人于千里之外,不 让他们看见面具后的她,哪怕是一丁点儿。所以甚至都没人怀疑她戴着面具,他们觉得那就是她的本来面目,盲目地相信她所展现出的一切。

真实的她一去不返,从世界逃离,因为太害怕,所以她不敢拆掉在心的周围筑起的稳固的城墙。在如此大的压 力下,城墙都濒临破碎、分崩离析。“再坚持几个小时就行了。”她告诉自己要坚强点。她绝不会在别人面前 卸下防备,绝不。

她继续用一块块砖筑起一道道墙,筑成一座无法逾越的堡垒围住她的心、她的灵魂;她告诉世界没有什么能伤 得了她;她告诉自己没有什么能伤得了她。有人会说是“铁石心肠”。“好吧,如果只有这样才能生存,”她 想,“那么就随它去吧。”于是,她继续筑着心墙。

她戴着面具,筑着墙。不是因为她不渴望爱和理解,而是害怕没人理解、没人大胆来爱,于是保护自己免于心 碎。一个人的爱一定要建立在理解之上。“他们怎么可能会爱上一个他们不了解的人呢?”她问自己,“他们 怎么会理解一个自己都不能理解自己的人呢?他们怎么会爱上一个软弱到只会躲在墙后面的人呢?”

所以,年复一年,心墙高筑。如果没有人尽快走进去,爱就会成为一个幻影,一个遥不可及的梦,一个她曾有 的、却已忘记的遥远愿望。爱不能靠近她。她伪装出的石头心终有一天会真地变成石头心。她必须学会信任他 人,不然就会追悔莫及。

这不是一个关乎爱与恨的问题,只是她内心告诉自己一切都来不及了。长久以来,她用石头筑起高高的墙,藏 匿在自己冷漠的面具之后,因此世人眼中看到的就成了真实的她。那一道道墙是监狱,那张面具是她自己的梦 魇。她想,“让爱进来是否为时已晚?”很快她会发现最困难的不是筑墙,而是如何拆了它们。

lurk

【释义】n. 潜伏;埋伏 vi. 潜伏;潜藏;埋伏

【短语】lurk out 逢凶化吉

stray

【释义】n. 走失的家畜;流浪者 adj. 迷路的 vi. 流浪;迷路;偏离

【短语】stray animals 迷失动物,离群动物

crumble

【释义】n. 面包屑 vi. 崩溃;破碎,粉碎 vt. 崩溃;弄碎,粉碎

【短语】crumble away崩溃;crumble to dust 化为乌有

suspicious

【释义】adj. 可疑的;怀疑的;多疑的

【短语】suspicious of 怀疑,对……怀疑

impenetrable

【释义】adj. 不能通过的;顽固的;费解的;不接纳的

【短语】an impenetrable barrier 不可逾越的屏障

fortress

【释义】n. 堡垒;要塞 vt. 筑要塞;以要塞防守

【短语】flying fortress空中堡垒、轰炸机

fantasy

【释义】n. 幻想;白日梦;幻觉 adj. 虚幻的 vt. 空想;想像

vi. 耽于幻想;奏幻想曲(等于phantasy)

【短语】fantasy literature 奇幻文学

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