YOKO - Day 004

宇宙歷 20017 年 12 月 15 日．太陽系 DE1229 

你好，John。

短暫離開太空船，讓自己身處太空的訓練，雖然我在學生時代試過幾次，可是在離開學校之後就再沒有做過了。不過「感覺自己變成透明」這件事情，倒還是會讓我想起當初為何會想成為「星際旅行者」。

從來沒有見過自己親生父母的我，自小就得了一個病 - 就是除了哥哥之外，我無法好好跟其他人溝通。

"People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening."
(沒有交流的對話。沒有咀嚼的聆聽。）

這個病在我內心築起了一幢又高又厚的牆。讓年幼的我完全沒法跟身邊的人一起前進。

幸好，在快要被這個病吞噬之前，我找到了出口，那就是你的旅行記錄。

「成為星際旅行者吧。」

感覺快要變成透明的我聽到自己內心的呼喚。

擁有了目標之後，我不顧一切地努力學習，在高中時已經考得太空船駕駛執照，同時亦學懂了大部份太空求生技能。在不斷向前衝的這段時間，我的病竟然也慢慢地不藥而癒。

終於，在大學畢業的那天，我把一直儲下來的獎學金買了一艘屬於自己的太空船。

「自己為什麼要踏上旅程？
又為了什麼而繼續旅程？」

我沒有細想過這些問題，因為「旅行」已經是曾經迷失的我所找到的答案。亦只有不斷旅行，才能夠讓我踏實地感受到自己正在前進。

下個目的地會是哪裡呢？我期待著翻開旅行記錄的新一頁。

宇宙無邊，生命有限
- Yoko



Space calendar 20017/12/15. Solar system DE1229

Hello, John.

Leave the spaceship for a while and let myself disappear in space — I hadn't had this training since I left school. The feeling of "letting my self disappear" reminded me of the reason why I wanted to become a space traveler. 

I had a sickness that caused me unable to communicate with others normally, expect my brother, and I had never seen my parents. 

"People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening."

I distanced myself from others as I couldn't get along with people around me. 

Luckily, before I was devastated, I found hope － your space journal. 

"Become a space traveler."

The voice inside my heart called at me. 

I studied regardless of cost after I had found my goal, eventually got my spaceship driving license at high school and learned most of the survival skills. While I was rushing towards my target, my condition became better and better. 

Finally on the day of my graduation, I bought myself a spacecraft with my scholarship. 

"Why did I start the journey? What keeps me going?"

I hadn't thought much about these questions, as "journey" was the key to all answers for me who once was lost. I could feel at ease only by traveling constantly. 

Where will be my next destination? I'm looking forward to turn to the next page of my journal. 

Too big the universe, too short to live. 

- Yoko
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Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

JOHN - Day 004

宇宙歷 19997 年 12 月 9 日．太陽系 UI078 

每一位星際旅行者，在漫長而沒有終結的旅途中，總會經歷迷茫的時候。

「自己為什麼要踏上旅程？」
「又為了什麼而繼續旅程？」

每當我反覆思考類似的問題而找不到答案時，便會戴上氧氣罩，暫時離開太空船，讓自己身處浩瀚又黑暗的太空中。

在沒有重力，沒有方向的宇宙中，整個人會完全被黑暗淹沒，身體就像變成透明一樣，沒有多餘的感覺。

"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again."
(我的老朋友「黑暗」，你好。我又來找你聊天了。）

在無邊的黑暗中，我彷彿能夠跟自己的靈魂交談，並回想起出發第一天的自己。當腦筋清晰起來之後，我本來所希望得到的「答案」突然就變得沒那麼重要了。

作為旅行者，本來就是為了探索更多不確定的答案而踏上旅程，不是嗎？

宇宙很大，生命很短。

-John

寫於即將進入未命名行星的引力範圍前

Space calendar 19997/12/9. Solar system UI078

Every traveler would feel lost from time to time during their endless journey.

"Why did I start my journey?"
"What keeps me going?"

Every time I felt lost I would put on the oxygen mask, leave the spacecraft and step inside the dark and vast universe. 

In this space without gravity and directions, you would be drowned by darkness, it felt like you're disappearing, without any senses. 

"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again."

In this borderless murk, I felt like I could talk to my own soul, and recalled the very first day of my journey. When my mind got clearer, the answers I was looking for became less important.

As travellers, we started our journeys for more vague answers, didn't we? 

Space is big, life is short.

- John
Written before entering the gravity range of an unknown planet

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Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4