Serendipity

Serenedipity, a nice word and I kind of fancy with it. The word was formed from the Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "were always making discoveries by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of".

In 2001, Peter Chelsom directed a romantic comedy of the same wording as the film title. The story tells of a couple reunite years after the night they first met in New York City, fell in love and separated, convinced that one day they will end up together.

Jonathan Trager (John Cusack) meets Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) by chance in the Christmas eve, in Bloomingdale's, both trying to buy the last pair of black cashmere gloves available for sales. Despite each being in a relationship with other people at the time, they spend an amazing afternoon together and attracted to each other. Jonathan wants her contact information "just in case", but Sara, a fatalist, plays games of fate with Jonathan to determine if they are indeed meant to be together.

Sara decides to write her contact information in a book, Love in the Time of Cholera and his on a five dollars bill. She gives the bill to a newspaperman and she says that she would sell the book in a New York used books store. If they are meant to be together, he will find the book, she will find the five dollars bill and they will find their way back to each other.

Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, 
but rather it is a tapestry of acts that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan. 

If we are to live life in harmony with the universe, 
we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum", 
what we currently refer to as destiny.

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WHEN YOU KNOW - Shawn Colvin

When you know that you know who you love, you can't deny it.
Or go back, or give up, or pretend that you don't buy it.
When it's clear this time you've found the one, you'll never let him go
Cos you know and you know that you know.

When you feel in your skin in your bones and the hollow
Of your heart, there's no way you can wait till tomorrow.
When there isn't any doubt about it once you come this close
Cos you know and you know that you know.

You can feel love surround you like the sky 'round the moon.
This is how love has found you, now you know what to do.

When you know that you know who you need, you can't deny it.
Or go back, or give up, or pretend that you don't buy it.
When it's clear this time you've found the one, you'll never let him go
Cos you know and you know that you know.

And it's time you come in from the cold.
Haaa ...
And you know that you know.

      

被遺忘的時光

被遺忘的時光 - 蔡琴 

是誰在敲打我的窗，

是誰在撩動琴弦，

那一段被遺忘的時光，

漸漸的迴昇出我的心坎。 

是誰在敲打我的窗，

是誰在撩動琴弦，

記憶中那歡樂的情景，

慢慢地浮現在我的腦海，

那緩緩飄落的小雨，

不停地打在我窗，

只有那沉默無語的我，

不時地回想過去。 

是誰在敲打我的窗，

是誰在撩動琴弦，

記憶中那歡樂的情景，

慢慢地浮現在我的腦海。

                

The Green Mile

Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), returns for a second feature, The Green Mile, an American drama film based on 1996 Stephen King novel of the same title released on December 10, 1999.

The movie is told in flashback by the protagonist in a nursing home. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of the dark green linoleum that tiles the floor.

It's just another normal day on the Green Mile, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the head guard on the Green Mile when a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man convicted of raping and killing two young white girls, arrives on death row. John shows all the characteristics of being a "gentle giant": eight feet tall with his hands the size of waffle irons, shy, soft-spoken, fearing darkness and crying often. A person who behaves more like an innocent child than a hardened criminal.

Soon Paul and two of his fellow guards, Brutus "Brutal" Howell (David Morse) and Dean Stanton (Barry Pepper), learns that there is more about John. Someone who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities, leading them to wonder just what sort of person John could be that he have committed the crimes with which he was charged.

Justice isn't always just 
but the most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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The Butterfly Effect

Some people want to forgot about the past and some people want to change it.

The Butterfly Effect is an American science fiction psychological thriller film that was written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (screenwriters for Final Destination 2) released on January 23, 2004. The title was inspired by the short story, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury and refers to the butterfly effect, a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory which illustrates how relatively minor changes may lead to large changes overtime.

Evan Treborn(Ashton Kutcher) grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends, Kayleigh Miller (Amy Smart), Lenny Kagan (Elden Henson) and Tommy Miller (William Lee Scott). As a kid, he suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else and confused. Since the age of seven, he has detail his life in a journal.

One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he attempts to set things right for himself and his friends. However, there are unintended consequences for all, harming those he cares about and realizes that the main cause of everyone's suffering in all the different timelines is himself.

At the end of the film, Evan purposely travels back in time one final time to the moment of his birth when he was in his mother's womb. Evan decides to kill himself and thus he was never born. Without him ever being born, Kayleigh and her brother Tommy decide to live with their mom going on to have happy lives and Lenny also grows up happy without Tommy's destructive presence. Evan's mother later on had a daughter. Earlier in the film Evan's mother mentioned that she had two stillbirths before him. This suggests that their father's abilities were passed down to each of them and they all made the same decision in the end, to never have been born at all.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 

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You Are My Angel

Lorretta Chow Mei-yan is a Chinese-Canadian actress and singer active in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. She was the second runner-up at the 2007 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and this song was sung by her as a theme song in TVB drama, Forensic Heroes II (法证先锋II) released in May, 2008.

 
YOU ARE MY ANGEL - Lorretta Chow (周美欣)

Once upon a time
An angel in the sky
Made a cover very night

Once upon a time
The angel loved me so
It's a miracle
In the snow, my heart won't be cold

My Dear
You are my angel
Tell me what you know
Something should be told 

My Dear
You are my angel
Tell me where you go
I will brace behind your throne

Once upon a time
My angel give me life

A Thousand Words

What if you only have a thousand words left? And what will matters most to you?

A Thousand Words is a comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Brian Robbins released on March 9, 2012. Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) is a fast-talking literary agent, who uses his 'gift of gab' to get various book deals, any time and any way.

One morning, Jack finds an unusual Bodhi tree with a thousand leaves mysteriously appears in his backyard after an encounter with a spiritual guru, Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis). With every word Jack utters, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. In time, he finds that even written words count towards his limit; plus anything that happens to the tree will also affect him. When Jack tries to cut it down with an axe, an axe wound appears on him. When squirrels climb on the tree, it tickles him. When a gardener tries to poison it with DDT and Jack gets high on the fumes.

Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner. His choice of words communicating with others becomes difficult and have affected in his career, work, marriage with his wife Caroline (Kerry Washington) and friendships.

With his life falling apart and the tree running out of leaves, Jack goes to Dr. Sinja and asks how to end the curse. The guru tells him to make peace in all of his relationships. With just one branch of leaves left, Jack tries to reconcile with Caroline and visits his mother (Ruby Dee), who lives in an assisted-living center and has dementia. She tells Jack, who she thinks is Jack’s late father Raymond, that she wishes Jack would stop being angry at his father for walking out on them when he was a kid. Jack, realizing that this is the relationship that needs the most mending and goes to visit his father’s grave. Jack expends the last three leaves of the tree with the words, "I forgive you". With no leaves remaining, Jack collapses and appears to have died.

You never know if 
the last time you see someone is going to be 
the last time you ever see someone.

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The Rose

While searching for the song, The Rose by Bette Midler in the website and found that it is a soundtrack of a movie film with the same title. An American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell and was released on November 9, 1979.

JANIS JOPLIN

The film tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star, modeled after the late Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) who was known as "The Queen of Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul".

Bette Midler stars as Mary Rose Foster in this somber drama who plays an ill-fated singer who struggles to cope with the constant pressures or rather succumbs to the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless British manager,Campbell Rudge (Alan Bates) by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save her from self destruction, while her British manager is ultimately blamed for not preventing her inevitable fall. Her rock and roll lifestyle of drugs, sex, and rock and roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown. 

On October 4, 1970, she was found dead at the age of twenty-seven and the official cause of her death was an overdose of heroin. The story mirrors any one of a number of popular singers who have fallen victim to the excess of success.

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THE ROSE - Bette Midler

Some say love it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger

An endless aching need

I say love it is a flower

And you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It's the dream afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul afraid of dying

That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely

And the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

For the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

Far beneath the bitter snows

Lies the seed

That with the sun's love

In the spring becomes the rose

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is an American comedy-drama film released on December 15, 1989 directed by Bruce Beresford and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry of the same name.

In 1948, after a driving mishap, a reluctantly seventy-two years old wealthy Jewish widow, Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) can no longer drive because no insurance company will cover her. Her son, Boolie Werthan (Dan Aykroyd) tells  her she will have to get a chauffeur, which in that time meant a black man (the racial attitudes and prejudices of that time). 

An African-American man, Hoke colburn (Morgan Freeman) was hired by Boolie as Ms Daisy's new chauffeur against his mother protests. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let Hoke drive her, going so far as to walk to the local supermarket, Piggly Wiggly with Hoke following her by automobile, much to her chagrin. Her reluctance to be driven around is because she is embarrassed that people might think she is either too elderly to drive or so well off that she can pay for a driver. Out of necessity, Miss Daisy gradually starts to accept Hoke and the fact that she needs him to drive her around.

A wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur. Both have a different back groups. Hoke because of his skin color, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot fathom Miss Daisy's cloistered inability to grasp the social changes that are sweeping the South in the 1960s. Nor can Miss Daisy understand why Hoke's "people" are so indignant. Even though they continued to bicker, an unlikely remarkable friendship was beginning to form between them as the years pass.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest ... ... 

It's about who came and never left your side ... ...

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Puncture

Puncture is an independent feature film starring Chris Evans, directed by Adam Kassen and Mark Kassen and was released on April 21, 2011. The film was based on the true story of Michael David 'Mike' Weiss and Paul Danziger set in Year 1998. A David-versus-Goliath tale.

Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict.  Paul Danziger (co-director Mark Kassen), his longtime friend and partner who is a family man with a pregnant wife. They decided to take on a case when nurse Vicky Rogers (Vinessa Shaw) seeks them out and they learn that she has contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when accidentally pin pricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient on the job. 

Vicky shows an auto retractable safety needle invented by engineer, Jeffrey Matthew Dancort (Marshall Bell) who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital because the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) refused to adopt to his new, more expensive and safer syringes. As Mike and Paul dig deeper into the case and soon, they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system; a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy teeters on exposure and heavyweight attorneys move in on the defense. Out of their league but invested in their own principles, the mounting pressure of the case pushes the two underdog lawyers and their business to the breaking point.

Michael "Mike" David Weiss 

The show ends when Mike was found died from a drug overdose in his home and the case was later handle by attorney Mark Laniel (Mark Laniel himself) to the court.

In 2004, Mark settled the lawsuit against one of nation's largest GPO and its medical supply manufacturers for over USD150 million. As a result, thousands of hospitals throughout the United States now use safety needles. Many hospitals continue to use conventional syringes resulting in many accidental needle sticks and deaths. In poor countries, the plastic syringe still gets reused hundreds of times and is responsible for millions of new HIV/AIDS infections each year.

This film is dedicated to Michael David Weiss (1967 - October 2, 1999). A lawyer, genius, fool, son, brother, visionary, playboy, madman, druggie and friend.

“I am only one, but still I am one. 

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; 

and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
"Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest places."

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Just The Way You Are

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - Billy Joel

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are

Make Every Second Count

Each day is a gift and not a given right

Leave no stone unturned
Leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by
That first step you take is the longest stride

If today was our last day and tomorrow was too late
Could we say goodbye to yesterday?
Would we live each moment like our last
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime we had, if today was the last day?
What if, what if, if today was our last day?

Against the grain should be a way of life
What's worth the price is always worth the fight
Every second counts 'cause there's no second try
So live like we are never living twice
Don't take the free ride in our own life

If today was our last day
Would we make our mark by mending a broken heart?
We know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who we are

So do whatever it takes
'Cause we can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothing stand in our way
'Cause the hands of time are never on our side

If today was our last day and tomorrow was too late 
And would we call those friends we never see?
Reminisce old memories?
Would we forgive our enemies?
And would we find that one we are dreaming of?
Swear up and down to God above
That we would finally fall in love if today was our last day?

Limitless

Limitless is a 2011 thriller film directed by Neil Burger released on March 18, 2011 which based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn with the screenplay by Leslie Dixon.

Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is an unemployed copywriter who is suffering from chronic writer's block and believes that all hope is lost when his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish) leaves him. However his life start to change when an old friend introduces him to a (fictional) nootropic drug, NZT-48, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows the user to access hundred percent of their brain's capacity instead of the "usual" twenty percent. He finds himself in possession of a drug that has some curious effect on its user. From his first hit, he realizes that the drug boosts the intellect. Soon, Eddie takes Wall Street by storm, parlaying a small stake into millions with his highly focused and confident.

Before long he catches the eye of business mogul Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) and at the same time, also bring him to the attention of people who are in close pursuit to acquire the NZT drug. With his life in jeopardy and the drug's brutal side effects grinding him down, Eddie dodges mysterious stalkers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation as he attempts to hang on to his dwindling supply long enough to outwit his enemies.

A year later, Eddie has remains wealthy and his book is published. He is running for United States Senate  and meets Carl in his campaign office. Carl hints that he knows how Eddie has done it and has shut down his lab. Carl will guarantee a limitless supply in exchange for some future political favors, however, Eddie aggressively pushes Carl away, showing off his abilities that he is off NZT and doesn't need it anymore.

At an upscale Chinese restaurant Eddie and Lindy are together again and he orders his meal by speaking Mandarin with the waiter.

Limitations live only in our minds. 

But if we use our imaginations and our possibilities become limitless. 
Everything is possible when we open our mind.

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Source Code

Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley which released on April 1, 2011.

The story starts when soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man on a commuter train traveling to Chicago. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train and he awakens to find himself strapped inside a small geodesic dome. Through a screen, Air Force Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) explains to him that he is actually Colter Stevens, a decorated army helicopter pilot, now on a mission using Source Code to discover the location of a bomb aboard the train and identify the bomber who detonated it which destroyed a train headed into Chicago.

Stevens has no memory of how he became involved in the Source Code project; his last memory is of flying in a recent mission in Afghanistan while taking on enemy gunfire. In an assignment unlike any of he's ever known, he learns that the train explosion occurred two months after an incident in Afghanistan which reportedly killed him. And his body are in fact on life-support at the Source Code facility while his mind is hooked up to a computer system, the cockpit being a mental projection of his own mind to cope with the experience of a compatible man's life for the last eight minutes within an alternate timeline. Angered to discover this, Stevens requests that his life support be terminated after the mission is completed.

Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again through different people until he manages to foil another attack and in the process unexpectedly falls in love with one of the passengers, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan).

Stevens ask Christina what will she do if she knew she had less than one minute to live and she reply "I'd make those seconds count". Stevens and Christina kiss in the last seconds before the eight-minute mark. In that instant, Goodwin disables his life support per his request and the scene reveals his actual, physical body as severely mutilated and comatose. Time freezes, but to Stevens' surprise, find himself finishing the kiss,  still aboard the train with Christina, saving the rest of the passengers which all remains in the alternate timeline (universe).

Make Every Second Count

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how we choose to live it. 

It's like forever, always changing. 

For any of us our forever could end in an hour or a hundred years from now. 

We can never know for sure, so make every second count. 

What we have to decide is how we want our life to be. 

If our forever was ending tomorrow and how would we have want it to spent. 

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I'II Follow You Into The Dark

A song by Death Cab for Cutie (an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997) from their fifth album Plans. Written and performed by lead singer Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) who wrote this song at the age of nearing 29 and had never lost anyone really special in his life.

The concept and creation of the song found in Wikipedia:

"It's just this idea that what if somebody dies and we're just floating, just stumbling around in infinite darkness, and I'm just trying to find some kind of spiritual kind of peace with myself, and the world." ~ Ben Gibbard

It's comes to my mind when I first heard of this song; the kind of love that transcends time when someone special in life died and trying to find some comfort of peace. However, there's a lot more hidden messages in this song in the website that depends on individual interpretations on different encounters and experiences in life which will remains as mystery.

I will always be there for you when you are uncertain,

even into the greatest uncertainty of all ... ... death.

I'LL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK - Ben Gibbard

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one to guide you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about 'cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

所謂的曾經，就是幸福

一个感人的故事．．．

中午，我站在學校大門口當交通導護，幫助一年級的小朋友放學。卓新勇的母親，悄手悄腳提著一個便當在校門口。 被我一喊，她露出不好意思的表情。

「老師啊！．．．」
「哎呀！我不是跟妳講了嗎？學校不喜歡家長替孩子送便當。如果每個媽媽都像妳這樣，學校大門就擠滿了人，那樣，我們怎麼放學呢？」
「我知道！我知道！」哼！知道了還送，簡直是明知故犯。
「妳不會讓他自己帶便當嗎！」
「我知道！我知道！」這些話，不曉得說了幾次。

每次一到中午，送便當的家長和放學的一年級小朋友，常常相撞在一起，造成相當的困擾。卓新勇是一位沈默寡言，乖巧內向的孩子。有次上課，他竟然打瞌睡，我很訝異，把他叫起來。

「怎麼了？」他一臉迷惘站起來，不回答。

第二天上課，也是這樣，我實在受不了，狠狠地把他叫過來。

「你到底怎麼了？」

我已經氣得半死，口氣已經控制不住。突然，他垂頭淌下淚水。我暗自一驚。

「說呀！到底為什麼上課要打瞌睡呢？」
「我媽媽住院了！昨天一直在醫院陪她。」

我一聽愣住了，頓時，心中的怒氣消失了，代之而起的是無限慚愧，「她為什麼住院呢？」
「是肺癌！」我一聽，心都涼到腳底。 心中想到身體贏弱的卓新勇。如果，不幸那天來臨，他將如何繼續往後漫長的歲月呢？想到這兒，不禁鼻酸。吃飯時，妻子在餵兒子吃飯， 我不禁想起，以前卓新勇的母親偷偷摸摸替他送便當。

第二天下班後，我騎著機車到醫院探望他母親。幾個禮拜沒見，卓新勇的母親瘦得不成人形，蒼白的臉，光禿的頭，簡直不敢相信就是她。她看到我，顯得很驚訝，努力想站起來，但是，一咳嗽，整個人歪了一邊。

「不要站起來！不要站起來！」
「老師！謝 ．．．謝謝你！」她吃力喊著，眼眶消出淚水。

在醫院的走廊，卓新勇的父親對我說：「只剩下兩個月了！嗚！我 ．．．真的不知要怎麼辦？」他老淚縱橫。回到學校，報告校長。

「他爸爸已經六十多歲了，現在母親又將離開人間，是不是我們可以發動全校募款。不管多少，都可以幫助他。」校長爽快答應。

經過幾天募款活動，我們總算募到五萬二千一百二十元。把錢送到醫院時，卓新勇的母親已經在昏迷中。

「我們準備今天送他回家！」卓新勇的父親，臉形憔悴得發白。我一聽，心頭抽搐一陣。
「老師！能不能幫個忙？」
「請說！我能夠做到的，我一定答應。」
「他前幾天，一直拉著卓新勇的手，喊著：媽媽不能再替你送便當了！我想，請老師再讓她送最後一次便當，只有送便當時，他才真正感受到一位為人母親的榮耀。」聽到這兒，我百感交集地點點頭。

中午，一輛救護車呼拉拉開到學校大門口。卓親勇的父親和一名醫護人員，推著擔架上的人。我淚水盈眶，站在旁邊，伴當交通導護老師。

「到了！到了！」卓新勇的父親買了一個便當，躺在擔架上的卓新勇的母親，伸出瘦細蒼白的手提著便當，在旁邊人員推送下，慢慢靠近大門口的鐵門。
在鐵門的另一邊，卓新勇伸出右手，接過母親的便當。

「媽！」卓新勇嚎啕大哭。這時，我清楚見到她母親瘦削的臉頰，抽搐了一下，彷彿想說話，但是，又說不出來。

「媽！我不要！我不要妳走！」卓新勇呼天搶地叫著。我的淚水，再也控制不住，嘩嘩而落。我暗恨自己，以前是多麼殘忍！

隔天，卓新勇的母親就去世了。

卓新勇的母親出殯後。一天， 卓新勇的父親來到我辦公室，遞給我一包牛皮紙。

「老師！這是你和學生們幫助我的錢，我認為還有更多的學生，需要這筆錢，所以，還給你們。謝謝你熱心幫忙。」說完，錢一放，就掉頭離去。

這筆錢彷彿生熱似的，直燙著我心坎。我天天找卓新勇聊天話家常。深怕他經不起喪母的打擊。

「老師！你放心！我很好！你不要一直替我擔心！」

卓新勇對我說「我很早就知道，我母親就要死了，我也不是不想聽你話，叫媽媽不要送便當。因為，一天當中，只有中午，我才能吃到我媽媽煮的飯。」

我心頭一凜，「為什麼呢？」

「她很虛弱，家裡都是爸爸在煮飯。只有中午爸爸不在，她才能偷偷背著爸爸煮飯。是她堅持要送便當的。」說完，卓新勇淌出淚水。

生命是很脆弱的，我们不知道无常几时会找上门来。一直以為幸福在遠方，在可以追逐的未來。後來才發現 ．．． ．．．那些握過的手，唱過的歌，流過的淚，愛過的人 ．．． ．．．所謂的曾經，就是幸福。