Copenhagen

Why Copenhagen?

I was asked by this question for many times in Denmark. But not for one time I have told the real answer. Practicing English…experiencing European culture…I answered these because they’re convincing. Easy to explain. If I said, “well, I just wanna to go to a faraway country to think about the meaning of my life.” Then probably that’s not an appropriate answer.

But that’s my answer. A faraway country? There’re plenty of countries which are faraway. Maybe I’ll be questioned by this. Egypt. Mexico. Aren’t they much more faraway?

No, not those hot places. For this exchange, I must go to a place that the weather of which is completely different from Taiwan.

That must be a place in which I can totally forget Taiwan.

Copenhagen had no association with my life before. Music, movie, books, and culture. Almost nothing. Copenhagen’s a perfect choice.

If I didn’t come to exchange, then for the future I’ll probably choose the road that my parents advice me, that they gave their every effort to let me do so. Study master here, pass those exams for financial certificates, have steady job, get married, raise children, and then get retired. Go travelling with the money which was saved during my life. What a smooth one; but that’s not what I want. Having almost all my life in this island, isn’t that a bit boring? Not that I mean Taiwan’s not good enough. It’s just that sometimes we need some adventures to enrich our lives. Especially the time when we’re still young.

Even though that’s what I believe, my thinking’s still pathetically poor and uncreative before going abroad. Anyhow, go out first. To see what kind of lives they’re living out, what kind of things they’re thinking about - those people in different part of the world.

Then I started my journey.




為什麼會決定來哥本哈根呢。

其實這個問題我在丹麥被問了很多次。老實講ㄧ次也沒說實話。甚麼想練英文啦，想來歐洲體驗文化啦，這些實直上具有功能，可以說服別人相信的理由，只是因為方便才說的。假如回答，"嗯，其實我只是想找個遙遠的地方想想我的人生意義在哪"，恐怕不太妥當吧。

但其實這是我的答案。遙遠的地方，那很多國家都可以嘛。或許有人會這樣反駁。埃及或墨西哥什麼的，不是感覺上更遙遠嗎。不，那麼熱的地方可不行。這次出來，非得換個和台灣氣候完全不一樣的地方才行。

必須是ㄧ個讓我完全想不起台灣的地方。

在這之前的人生，我和哥本哈根可說是完全性的沒有瓜葛。音樂，電影，書本，文化，幾乎所有一切。像是兩條水平線平行前進著。因此哥本哈根可以說是個完美的選擇。於是就這麼飛到了丹麥。


假如沒有這次的交換，恐怕我也會走上我爸媽及力勸導我走的道路吧。也就是在台灣念研究所，考證照，穩定的工作，結婚，養小孩(假如有的話)，退休。退休之後用存的錢去旅行。這真是一帆風順的人生哪，但我很確定這不是我想要的。一輩子都在這島上度過，不是太可惜了嗎。並不是說台灣不好唷。只是人生有時總是要冒險去闖蕩一下的。尤其是在年輕的時候。

雖然這麼想，但在出國前我的思考還是貧乏的可憐，沒創意的讓我自己覺得可悲。總之先出國再說吧，看看世界上的其他人是怎麼過人生的，是怎麼思考事情的。


於是我就出發了。