現在有了網路,留學生之間可以有討論區交流一下外地生活的資訊,例如什麼地方有亞洲超市可以買到家鄉食物啊,什麼地方在做大特價啊,下載些家鄉在播的熱門電視節目,手續怎樣辦,有什麼方法可以省錢之類本地鬼佬同學未必能提供的資訊(因為國藉不同,有些東西是他們有而我們不能申請的)。而這些版上,通常會有所謂的感情版--我是唸心理學的,我對事情本身的興趣通常比不上背後的動機和原因大。我不是說自己不八卦,只是著眼點不同,而因此,我一般不喜歡看這種版。
Why?
--因為那些"動機"一般讓我覺得很不舒服,或者應該這樣說吧!
某種非常常見的故事型:
某女孩隻身到海外求學,遇到某溫柔細心的外國男孩,於是在某次生病之後得到他的照顧(例如帶她去看醫生,給她翻譯之類),就覺得人家真的待她好,於是短短三個月在拿出地圖也沒能指出對方家鄉大約在東南西北哪個方位,就以身相許,覺得自己終於自己的另一半了(到了我這種年紀你就會知道,當你聽到一個不夠二十歲的小朋友,用一種歷盡蒼桑,眾裡尋他千百度的語氣,說什麼"終於找到了"那種哭笑不得的心情),一個勁的說什麼"我覺得很值得"之類的,然後因為種種原因,兩人過幾個月分手了,又說自己很淒涼,說什麼"愛情都是騙人的,我永遠不再相信","結婚不等同愛情,我以後找個收入穩定沒啥的健全男人嫁了就算"...
男版的一般是碰到某個很主動的女孩子,於是大家都很主動的就上了床(奇怪的情節都很雷同),然後人家走了,就很蒼涼地說:女的都那樣,誰叫我沒人家長得俊/多金etc.?人生得意需盡歡,有機會玩就要玩,將來要安定下來,就找個不太醜不太拽不太麻煩的女人娶了就好...
有的比較成熟(?),就會在身邊的圈子找個還不討厭的湊合(當然也有些是真的情投意合的,但那就不叫做湊合啦!),雙方默契一天在外就互相慰藉,回家就分道揚鑣,各自嫁娶,老死不相來往...
如果笑了,真的很不厚道。
啥都不說,我奇怪的是為什麼他們會這麼的寂寞???寂寞到可謂無所不用其極--要我說,上面的例子包含了自欺欺人,自私自利和人慾橫流的特質,總之跟所謂的"美好感情"完全沾不上邊--這年紀不是都應該有點夢想的嗎?為啥我覺得他們明明才二十歲,思想上比我還蒼涼?(注意蒼涼跟成熟是兩碼事)
大姐我不是沒有過青春期,也有過些喜歡上某人不敢說之類的事,但自問動機不是閒得發慌了,雖然覺得人家笑起來很好看之類的理由也很難說是比較"高尚",但起碼不會出現從此連人生觀也扭曲了的後果,然後爆笑地到處說什麼"我再也不相信男人了"之類的。
我不能勸勉這些小朋友,因為說教模式會開啟:
你不是出國唸書的嗎?為什麼那麼多美國時間寂寞了?既有互聯網,又有外國生活的新奇刺激的活動,隨便選一個也是比較有益有建設性相對風險較低(容我不厚道地說一句,我在英國大學註冊的當天校方發的那個迎新包中就有保險套,"萬一懷孕怎麼辦"和墮胎診所的小冊子和性病/愛滋病的預防資料手冊)。怎麼就滿腦子在世界上幾乎任何地方都可以進行的速食式男歡女愛(這裡不是說什麼找尋靈魂另一半那種啊!),而不去看看自己來到的這個新地方,到底有什麼好玩好看特別的呢?不然你正統一點,花點時間唸書啊!!!
你到底出國幹什麼的你???!!!
我承認,我真的是個極端無趣的人,我不太了解為啥他們都無事可做。上周末我跟一些本地的台灣同學見面,其中一位是唸演化人類學的(Evolutionary anthropology),我一聽這名字就熱血了--我很想,很想聽她說自己的學科的事情啊!!!!!結果要照顧一下別的同學,變成了中港台三地討論,說著一些有的沒的,一說就時光飛逝的,過了六小時不止--其實我個人還是很想繼續說下去的。
不少父母級的人問過我出國唸書是不是好事,他們心裡想的是要存個錢給自己的孩子一個更好的機會,就算不是什麼名校,讀萬卷書不如行萬里路,總算是見過世面嘛!殊不知真相是,起碼有一半人,他們交往過的就是那幾個跟自己走得最近的中國人,書沒唸過多少,走得最多的路就是自己宿舍跟某些對象的住處之間的路。
我每次讓人問這問題的時候,都會很委婉地問:你的孩子是不是一個很怕寂寞的人?是不是要有人隨時呵護的人?是不是有丁點挫折就放到無限大的人?
搞些男女關係倒還好,變了個酒鬼甚至道友,然後還一把眼淚一把鼻涕的說什麼自己TMD寂寞,所以就這樣了,一副理所當然"我寂寞所以我墮落",還覺得別人全都應該明白和體諒的樣子,才叫人囧啊!
說的好. 拍拍手!
回覆刪除這些問題只出現在留學生身上嗎?
回覆刪除(我很懷疑 ... )
好一個豪氣的學姊!
回覆刪除It seems that you have met quite a lot of nice people in
Leipzig, and may be you are more verbal about what you want to
do - I usually complete all tasks on my own. If I were you
getting the notice to pick up a 100 Kg package, I would just go
there alone without telling anybody - maybe cab a taxi.
When I was studying in the US, I intentionally tried to stay
away from Chinese students - in order to really experience the
real life there. In Germany, a friend asked me to join those
activities of the English speaking travelers - I didn't do that
either. I hate seeing those people who studied abroad for many
years ended up speaking some crappy foreign language because
they just hanged around with people from their own country.
Despite I agree with most of your points, you overlooked some
回覆刪除aspects of life related to clinical psychology and the
well-being of human beings, although you might be speaking from
a psychology point of view in general. Homo sapien is a social
species. They need to talk to people and engage in social
activities. People who have less friends and in particular
single people have much higher suicidal rate. Every person has
individual priority of activities for maintaining their own
psychological well beings. Always being able to be contended to
enjoy the freedom and solitaire of life is a true blessing.
While those kids that you have mentioned above are on their way
to become more mature I believe.
By the way, the piano music clip sounds nice. :)
Hey,
回覆刪除It's me Lewis. How 're u lately? How's
your work? Seems there was a storm ramping
in continental Europe, are u ok now? I'm
fine in UK. Just busy with the coursework
and dissertation... BTW, I'll investigate
the auditory brainstem response (a kind of
EEG)when ppl listening to consonant
(harmonious) and dissonant (not
harmonious) musical tones for my
dissertation. Those musical tones are not
the tones that used in constructing our
familiar music scales...
As students studying aboard, we expect to
be alone. For me, frankly saying, I have
no time to think if I'm lonely...doing
coursework, reading, even doing chores...
I wish I have more than 24 hrs a day. But
I enjoy my life here, simple and quiet.
And I also enjoy observing any difference
and similarity between culture and the
ways of living.
Maybe I have adapted to be alone, u know,
I'm the only son in the family. You can
imagine when I was a kid at home,I
played/destroyed everything. Being alone
is really a gift...hahaha
Pancy,
回覆刪除After reading all these, my comment
is "You get into the wrong Forum, meeting
the wrong gruops of people. So, go to
these Forum, have a glance and leave."
I studied in a media school (well, I can
barely say it is an art school, although
the nature is quite similar.) and so
familiar with all these situations. Be
honest to say, I have open attitude on
that. In some way, I believe life is a
matter of lost and found, and exploration.
They placed themselves in some particular
situations and they made some choices.
That's it.
You would never placed yourself in those
situations simply because you are living
in different reality, having different
ideas about lives. I can never judge some
other people's decisions using my own
value. That don't make any sense.
I think I would never be part of them as
well. We do not share the same value. Our
talk start on no base. Hanging around
casually is OK but not a single step
further.
I would like to borrow some of the
回覆刪除Buddha's ideas. Life is difficult. As long
as you understand and accept this AND
start to change, there is a way out. No
one can steal your happiness. To make
yourself happy is your right and
responsibility.
You might think my comment is just too
general. Well, I have been to it. (as a
witness, actually) It's done, no more. So,
I would rather spend time on some other
things. Life is short! Be nice to
yourself.
;P