“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”-Mark Twain去新奥尔良这个主意已经酝酿许久了。起先是听说朋友去那里开会,吃小龙虾一兜兜的吃。 后来就是毁灭性的大飓风。再有就是好友定了新奥尔良周末行程,却因为又一场飓风成为泡影。记得的就是那本孤独地球的导游书。 偶尔也去看看纽约时报36小时游新奥尔良的帖子。只是隔岸观火隔靴搔痒而已。最终下决定是在三月。想去古巴,墨西哥,印度,意大利。。。却因为换护照,没有办法出国。积累的假期又想用掉。积累的情绪想放空。日复一日的嘈杂生活开始爬上我的心墙,腐蚀我的理性。"Our life is frittered away by detail..." 每每开始花时间心思做复杂的菜,收拾衣柜,挪家具,布置房间,或者买根本不需要的衣服鞋子的时候,就意识到,好吧,该出去走走,把自己生活归零,重启。“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”-Leonardo da Vinci“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.” -Joshua Foer