To be or Not to be

生命的意義是什麼？相信每一個人都有過思考。讀了下面的文章我覺得這個大學二年極的學生的思考，真的是很深刻。希望每一個看到的人，都認認真真讀一讀這個小姑娘的文章。她的名字叫吳今，她已經香銷玉隕於北京的香山，她永遠都是二十歲。

吳今這個名字，估計知道的人很少，而朱令，相信知道的人就會多很多，一個美麗聰明的女孩子，她就是吳今的妹妹，然而由於10年前的‘鉈中毒’事件，這個被上帝寵愛的孩子卻過着半植物人的生活。1994年，我有幸同朱令一起上籃球課，她是那麼美麗，活躍和多才多藝，也許如此的完美就是被人妒忌的理由。今天看到Sohu的新聞，真是讓人落淚！這就是悲劇，人性的悲劇，希望此類的悲劇再也不要重演！！

以下是吳今的文章：

To be or Not to be
--------The meaning of life, the meaning of death

Every one who knows Shakespere must know his most well-known tragedy: Hamlet and that famous line: To be or not to
be, that's a question. As for Hamlet, to be or not to be is quite
a dilemma: he was doomed to be a tragedy, whether to live or
to die. Perhaps everyone will confront the similar choice to Hamlet in his life sooner or later. To survive or to die, to fight
or to surrender, to win or to lose. He must make the decision
himself. Fortunately, I haven't come to that crucial point yet.
Up till now, my life is like a smooth sailing. Sometimes I
ask myself: do I find the real meaning of life and death?
Though I am going to be a biologist, I have no definite answer
to that. But still I believe that I did find something in life.

When I ramble along in the peaceful field, hearing the
twittering of birds, drifting in the fragrance of wild flowers,
I will always praise the beauty of life and feel really happy that
I'm still alive. When I learned the mysterious nature and the
evolution of life, I was filled with admiration by the greatness
of nature. Life is a bestowing of nature, we have no right to
smother, it's a part of universe.

I remember one day, when I felt so frustrated by those
misfortunes in life, it seemed that I had done everything wrong
and there was no remedy at all. I left home, wandering along
the street, feeling sad and hopeless. It was then when I caught
sight of the sunset. The sun was like a huge burning ball,
flaring and shinning, it was so glorious and so brilliant. Soon
the whole sky was flaming, the sun gathered its last energy
burning thoroughly, like the solemn end of a tragedy. It sink
slowly under the horizon, soon darkness fell around me. I stood
there unawaring of where I was. Tears ran down my face.
A voice cried out in my heart: "I will wait, till the sun rises
again, till the first sunshine on my shoulder." Perhaps that's
the meaning of life. Everyone has his own sun and his own
dream, and everyone has own brilliant moment when his sun
shines gloriously. We'll struggle and suffer in order to reach
that brilliant moment. Nothing can stop us, no matter how
hard, no matter how many times we fail. That dream,
deeply rooted in our heart, is worthy of devoting our whole
life to. All of us want to see the sun shines again and want
to catch that glorious moment to appreciate the real beauty
of life.

Life is like a long river, it will end someday and somehow. No
one can escape from that eternal end, when that day comes,
we'll say goodby to this colored world. A man's life is a man's
song. Whether it's sad or happy, fierce or quiet, it's his own
song. A song written in his own way with his soul, with his life.
A man lived, did what he should do, found what he want,
fulfilled his dream. He then died calmly. Because he knew that
there was nothing to regret. He had seen evil and good, ugly
and beautiful. Now it was all over, it was time for his play to
close and gave the stage to newcomer. His song was going to
end, but it would never diminish, it would become a tiny part
of the chorus of the universe, and that will sing forever. Another
man lived, struggled, but never reached his dream, for him,
life was a perpetual nightmare, then he saw the twilight, they
glimmered far in the distance, though he had no time and he
would never got there, his heart was quiet, for he knew he had
tried his best. His song might only be a faint cry but he knew
it was just the prelude to the grand movement of that chorus.
He died happily, hearing the song were sung continue.

The world is beautiful, because of warm sunshine and also
because of its rain and storm. Only a man who has been drenched with
tears can understand the real meaning of happy. Once a famous writer
said in one of his novel: there is no real happy in life, but just one situation
compared with another. The whole meaning of life lies in two words
"hope and wait".

To be or not to be, it's all depends on a man's own attitude to life,
on whether he appreciates the morning sunshine, whether he want to
explore the beauty of nature. If the thunderstorms come, it all
depends on whether he still firmly believes that the sun will rise
again. Yes, the sun is going to shine, and it will shine even more
brilliant. Do not cry, just wait and hope and fight.

Life and death and the sunshine make the world. As they go round
generation by generation, day by day, the world go round. Let's sing
out our own song lauding life, lauding world.