[出走地平線：由零開始]
Flattening The Curve: Starting over
有接近十年，我都是周遊列國。
在很多人視為「成長期」的階段，我都是一名「老外」、「法朗人」（泰文，意為「歐裔人種」）甚至是「鬼佬」。
太長時間沒有用自己的母語英語，有時一句句子也說不出來。在對話中夾雜著不同語言，但心底還是想找到自己的聲音。
我想如小孩一樣，發掘到屬於自己的一種新語言。
我當時認識一點西班牙語和阿拉伯語，但對中文和中國一無所知。可以說我就像白紙一張，一切都要由零開始。
還記得三歲的時候，父親把我拋進大海裡（他當時有點醉意），想看看我究竟多快學會游泳。
在這一回，我讓自己跳進中文的辭海裡；嘗試用新的眼光看看事情，學習新的泳法。
For close to ten years I had traveled the world.
I had been a “foreigner”, a “ farang”, a “gweilo” all through what are most people’s “formative years”.
I had spoken so little of my native English for so long, I could barely form a sentence anymore. I spoke pidgin versions of many languages but I wanted to find a new voice.
I wanted to grow in a new language as a child grows in its own.
I already knew a little Spanish and Arabic, but I knew nothing of Chinese or China, so I would be really new born innocent, really learning from nothing.
When I was three years old, my dad had thrown me into the sea ( he was a little drunk) to see how quickly I would learn to swim.
This time round I am throwing myself into a sea of Chinese words and ways to see with new eyes, to learn to swim in a new way.
#彌敦道 #香港 #霓虹燈
#NathanRoad #HongKong #neonlight
