山地自行车之旅

生命就是一条河
Life is a river.
我爷爷经常这样说
That’s what granddad always used to say.
开始与结束之间 有千万条路线
A beginning, an end, a million different ways in between.
他用河流来形容我的一生 如何流动 如何结束
He used a metaphor of my whole life how it ended, flowed.
一路向前
Flowing the path, release the resistent.
克服艰难险阻
Barely straight through the impossible.
有时清澈 有时浑浊
Clear as air, black as night.
爷爷说 不管流向什么方向
But no matter what the direction or how it moved,
如何流动 呈现出怎样的姿态
what it looked like, the point according to granddad
河流永远都是向前流动的
was that the river always moved forward.
是什么让他年至垂暮还感慨万千呢
What kept him running the rabbits until he was old and gray?
见证奇迹的时刻到了
The mystery would lay around the bend.
如今这种奇迹很难被发现了
These days that mystery is hard to find.
河流离我们越来越远 天空充斥着灰尘
The river is distant. The sky clouds out of concrete.
对于很多人来说 生命的奇迹 生命的美丽
For many of us life’s great adventure, all its beauty,
生命中联♥系♥ 都已经在不经意间被破坏了
all its connection sells by unnoticed.
有趣的是 河流距离我们并没有想象的那么远
Funny thing is the river is never that far off.
下面就让我们用一种方式
This is the story of a way back in,
回到生命之河的前进中去
to the rush of moving forward.
在地下诞生
Born from the earth crust.
在泥土中成长
Grow from the seeds of enervation.
在火焰中锻造
Forged in fire’s industry
强大的工业使人类成为这个地球上最强大的生物
The earth’s most efficient machine creates the most efficient animal.
而自行车
But bicycle,
是人类最完美的发明
are noblest invention.
道路 来来去去 亦如季节
Trails like the seasons come and go.
多样 美丽 典雅
Built on a foundation of diversity, beauty, classic elegance.
从不完全重复
Never quite repeating themselves
一种有着不同的开始
A marvel made of beginnings and endings
结局以及无数不同过程的奇迹
with a million different ways in between.
爷爷就好像是这其中的联♥系♥者
Granddad was all about those connections.
他花在土地上和花在机器上的时间一样多
He had his hands in the earth as much as he did machines.
也许这就是为什么他更理解生命的意义
Maybe that’s why he understood both sides.
我们开采砍伐 我们消耗 我们也创造
Sure we tilt and cut, we rip and we sew.
是的
And yeah,
我们造成了很多破坏
we do great damage.
无论我们认为自己有多聪明
After all, no matter how smart we think we are
我们也不过是历史的另一部分而已
we are just another part of history.
保持平衡
Balance a bike all right.
让踏板转动起来
Keep the padels turning.
这一刻 忘记一切
Forget about everything except right now.
没什么地方是不能骑自行车的
And there’s no place you can’t ride.
这是爷爷曾经说过的话
That’s granddad used to say.
生活就是一种自杀行为
I once read that life is an act of suicide.
这话说的很对
And it’s ture.
意识到这一点的 大概只有人类
Probably the only creatures on the planet would notice.
也许这就是为什么我们如此善于杀戮
Maybe that’s why we are so good at killing.
我们终有一天会死 不妨及时行乐
It’s going to die any way, might as well have it first selves.
所以我们就不停的获取
So we take, we take some more.
但是在我们让其他无形事物逐渐消失的过程中
But in the process we kill other less tangible entities
比如说某些生命的循环
things like flow,
人的幸福感 人与自然的互动 生存的意义
joy, interaction, purpose
穿越世界的另一条路也随之消失了
another way through the world has lost.
不是某个特定的人造成的
Not by one particular person
而是整个人类的本性
but by instinct,
生存
survival
正是人类的生命本身造成的
the very chaos lifeself.
你花费了太多的时间去思考 去设计 去质疑
You spend hours thinking, designing, questioning.
其实 你忘记这些只需一瞬间
Also you can spend a few seconds lost in one moment.
无需思考
No time to think,
顺其自然 全神贯注
just reaction, focus.
一个人所有的烦恼
All the worry
都会在疾驰之中一扫而空
in a one washed away by the rush.
当接近尾声
When it comes to…
当建造者放下工具拿起战车
when the builder puts down the shovel and picks up the bike
当创造替代了破坏
when creation override distruction
这 就是生活
well, that’s living.
我依然记得我的第一辆自行车
I still remember my first bike.
耀眼的蓝色喷漆
Perfect little banana
拥有哈雷一样的弓形车把的完美小车
with big chopper handle bars, sparkling blue paint,
它带给了我美好的回忆
Bright memeries came on that miracle
依稀记得那从高处冲下的快♥感♥
crousing down from the side block, feeling big.
我那时才7岁
Even though I was only seven.
世界一下子变得大不一样
In a second, the world grew exponentially
我们在距离四个街区远的地方发现了一些秘密的胡同
We found secret back alleys jumped a whole four blocks away.
我们互相碰撞 在胳膊上系上宽大的布带
We crash, get giant scrips on our arms
用最快的速度比赛冲向街角的商店
race to the corner store as fast as we could.
糖果从口袋里掉出来 好像逃跑的强盗掉出来的金块儿
Candy spill our pockets like stolen gold.
在寒来暑往中的一次又一次的骑行
With every ride, every new advanture
一次又一次的冒险里
with crone wood fade
车子慢慢变得锈迹斑斑
the rust was creepting at the pain.
其他的小孩开始骑着新车出现
Other kids was shown with the newer bikes.
我最好的朋友 吉米
My best friend Jimmy
买♥♥了一辆装有TRED轮胎的BMX
got a BMX with TRED tires, no funders.
他不准任何人碰他的车
He can jump at that thing like no body’s business.
当我们发现了林道
Then we found a trial.
世界又一次改变了
And the world changed again.
我在森林中穿行 穿梭于树木之间
We find ourselves deep in the forest, riding over roots,
飞跃沟壑 冒雨飞奔
dropping in the galleys, caught in the rain.
车子在更新换代
New kids were shown with gears, and bigger wheels.
而我对新的装备
While I’m in troop of my ride,
并没什么热情
much like the crown in the pain, my affection begin to fade.
父母承诺 当我再大一点 再给我买♥♥一辆BMX
My parents promised me a BMX when I got a little bigger.
但是现在 我的车仍在服役
But for now, chopper would have to do.
有一天 在丛林深处
One day, far gone in the woods,
我的爱车最终报废了
my pecfect little banana broken, too.
没法再骑了
The end of age.
虽然我知道很快我就会有新车的
I cried for a long time,
我还是哭了很久
even know a new bike wasn’t far off.
他已经融入我的生命
This thing had become a part of me.
并且永远如此
It still is.
无论我们造物如何精良
No matter how well we build things
无论我们对其有多么热爱
no matter how hard we love them
正如世间万物 无论是什么原因
like everything else, for what ever reason
它们最终都会慢慢离开我们
they are forth the end to take it all away.
人类只用了200年就发展到了今天
It’s only taken 200 years of to get here.
200年的发明创造
200 years of inovation and invention,
200年的永不言败
of not giving up.
设计很复杂
Complex by design,
本质却追求简洁
simple by nature.
单车只不过是一圈一圈的循环往复
The bike is nothing more than cirecles turning circles.
人类制♥造♥的马达使其显得更为高雅
It’s the human motor that makes it elegant.
但不管单车的发展历程有多么久远
But no matter how far the bike has come
无论它已经带来了什么
no matter how many it can already do
前进的步伐却从未停止
the pushing doesn’t stop.
我们尚未到达终点
We still haven’t found the edge.
终有一天 河流汇入海洋 从此它不再是一条河流
One day the river meets the sea, and it’s not a river any more.
它经历的变革的滚滚车轮
It passed through the wheel of change
尝遍各种经历 故事
in or out of experience, stories,
冒险 最终走向美好的终点
advanture, grand ends.
最终 有了完美的结局
And have to be the right stops.
消散了 但没有消逝
Lost but not entirely gone.
目前为止 就我们所知
For now, as far as we can tell
生命的轮回
The cycle of life,
其实 永无止境
well, it never ends.