第1685期：The first day of the rest of my life
在飞机上听了一首老歌，得了灵感，速写了一首英文诗。我可能写得太投入了，旁边的姑娘都停下了打游戏，偷偷看我在写什么。
飞行到大约半程时，飞机有一阵强烈颠簸，有人惊呼。跟我隔着过道坐着一位老先生，一路都在看《圣经》。他对颠簸的飞机毫不在意，笑着对我说了句“没事的”，继续读圣经。
于是有了这首一气呵成在三万英尺高空写成的英文诗，题目就叫:
“The first day of the rest of my life”
– by Fuolao
It’s 6:30 pm
Evening is near
I am high above the world
Piercing through the clouds
Layer by layer
The day was as long as any other day
As short, as busy, as noisy, as mundane, as tedious, as well.
I got up at 6 am
Before the clock crowed
Beat it – yes!
I went downstairs
Downstairs the air was clear
“The weather is good,” The guard greeted me
“It is, isn’t it?” replied I, halfheartedly.
The cat was waiting for me
at her usual spot, in the garage,
She often behaved like a kite
I cleared my throat
And there she appeared
The coffee machine in the pantry
The pantry was empty
So was the office
Beat my colleagues – yes!
I took my time
Spent more time brewing
Watching the machine grinding
It ground slowly but fine exceedingly
I went to the airport earlier
Much earlier than my itinerary
I boarded the plane first
Beat my fellow passengers – yes!
Up in the air
The stewardess dozed off quickly
The plane shook and shuddered
A lot of commotion and jitters
I sat upright, nervous and tight.
The man sitting a corridor away
was reading the Bible
He was at John chapter 3
When he looked up and smiled at me
“Easy lah – Nudding will habben.
I haven’t finished the work He gave me.”
I liked this Singaporean.
The first day of the rest of my life
It means today
It was today
I lived and loved it
Just as beautifully
-THE END-
题目灵感来自今天在飞机上听的那首约翰·丹佛的老歌：Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life
（歌词如下）
Today is the first day
Of the rest of my life
I wake as a child
To see the world begin
On monarch queens
And birthday wonderings
Want to put on faces
Walk in the wet and cold
And look forward to my growing old
To grow old is to change
To change is to be new
To be new is to be young again
I barely remember when
My memories are stolen by the morning
Blotted out by the suns hypnotic eye
Today is the first day
Of the rest of my life
I wake as a child
To see the world begin
On monarch queens
And birthday wonderings
Want to put on faces
由于这首老歌的关系，the first day of the rest of my life的意思就是today.
