故事:她因生活不幸而撒的谎 找回了我的诚实
52fw.cn 05-27 次遇见Getting My Honesty
寻找回来的诚实
(By Megan M.)
(梅根·M)
I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Canada on December 4, 1989 to Canadian royalty who already had six sons, three daughters and two dolphins.
·1989年12月4日,我出生在加拿大里约热内卢,是加拿大王室成员之一,当时家中已经有了六个儿子、三个女儿和两只海豚。
According to my mother, this was my first great lie, as told to my first- grade teacher in the form of a biographical report. While I have no recollection of said fib, I am told that it was the cause of a parent-teacher conference and four therapy sessions, the first of which I do remember because when asked to draw a picture of my family, I drew an extra brother and sister. (When the therapist said my parents had only mentioned one brother, I recall telling her that "we just don't talk about them very much".)After that, my lies escalated to tales about being lost in African deserts and nearly being eaten by Scar from The Lion King or swimming across oceans to escape evil witches; and while I'm not certain that my peers believed me, they were certainly entertained. Reality seemed boring in a way that was neither practical nor necessary as it was quite possible to invent my own world. My philosophy was only confirmed when I met Mary Beth.
据妈妈说,以上是我在一篇传记体报告中,向我的小学一年级老师所讲述的内容,也是我撒下的第一个弥天大谎。我对这个无关紧要的谎言丝毫没有印象,不过却有人告诉我,就是因为这个谎言,老师叫我的父母开了一次家长会,我还接受了四次心理治疗。我对第一次的心理治疗的确还有印象,因为当时心理治疗师让我画一张全家福,我却多画了一个弟弟和一个妹妹。(当治疗师说我的父母只提到过我的一个弟弟时,我记得自己当时是这么回答她的:“因为我们不怎么提起另外两个。”)从那以后,我的谎言就升级成了故事。比如,我在非洲沙漠里迷了路,差点儿被《狮子王》里面的刀疤(译注:动画片《狮子王》中木法沙的弟弟,直想除掉自己的侄子辛巴从而继承王位)吃掉;或是为了逃离邪恶的女巫们,我曾横渡了一个个大洋。虽然我不确定我的同伴们是否相信我的话,他们确实被我逗乐了。由于我可以虚构出一属于自己的世界,现实就显得有些乏味,从某种意义上说,既不实际,也没必要。在遇到玛丽·贝丝后,我对自己的这一人生哲学便更加笃信不疑了。
Mary Beth was a legend in her own right. Her antics were infamous, particularly one incident in which she pulled a fire alarm to alert the school to the presence of Russian spies. Compared to Mary Beth I was small potatoes, a fact of which I was well aware. So, when it came time to enter third grade, I found myself dreading the possibility that she would be in my class, as her presence would surely take away from my coveted limelight .
玛丽·贝丝凭她自己的本事成了一位传奇人物。她的恶搞行为臭名昭著,尤其是有一次,她拉动了火灾报警器向全校发出警报,说学校里有一些俄罗斯间谍出没。跟玛丽·贝丝相比,我不过是个小角色,对这一事实我有自知之明。所以,等到升三年级时,生活,而我撒谎却是因为我觉得自己的人生很无趣。从那以后,我好像不再有资格撒谎了,我没有理由那样做,相比之下,我人生的方方面面都已算完美。于是,玛丽·贝丝就以这样一种不同寻常的方式让我找回了自己的诚实。我真希望自己当时能回报她点什么。