Single Way Ticket...(9/7)

I am also looking for a single way ticket...

"有時候覺得自己好像已經這樣朝九晚五一輩子了。
常常有個念頭,想放下工作,買一張單程機票,沒有目的地也無所謂...
一直生活在這個挾小的城市,每天被瑣碎的事佔住思緒,整個人的視野變小了...
連夢想也都變得好遠好遠...
但是現實的生計問題又活生生把我抓回辦公室裡...
原來大家常說的無奈,也就是這樣
所以也只好不要想太多,安於現狀就好。"

The cost of a single way ticket (SWT) does not matter. We are in a society of less fun and aspirations, and this is pathetic for a developed world. Dreams and fantasies are either lost or hidden perhaps only in a cinema room. 2 hours after watching a movie, a dream fades out again. The invention of cars and planes reduces the size of the world, and so we travel and voyage. We move from destination to destination to find a piece of habitat that we can live peacefully. We have yet found the place. Someone calls it Utopia, others think that it may be the dreamland, but yet this is not known. We suffer from locating an agent to buy us a single way ticket. If you watch the film "Happy Together" by Wong Kar Wai, or if you hear the album "The Holy Bible" from the Manic Street Preachers, you will find that a destination is usually somewhere far away from our world, be it "another" world, or a stop that we may never be able to reach...poor us.

Invisible air pressure covers our city, and this is something our weather forecast fails to mention in everyday's report. A kind of pressure from works, from the human interaction, from the expectation and reality, from the fate or destiny. We become monotonic and fatigue...we are still the one to suffer from disappointment and unexpected moments. Lives are sweet and sour.

If we are offered the SWT, we need to figure out the direction we have to go. I wish I could go now. I have been thinking about the question posted by the Radiohead, "how to disappear from the world?"...I can hide myself and disconnect from the usual extractable means of communication at first, and then should I go to India or South America? Or the Sahara, or no more a physical space but a psychological one? The soul asylum?? The heaven or hell, the Moon or the Mars. Believe or not, there are hundreds of person disappearing from "our" world everyday, and perhaps it is because they finally got their SWT.

The illness of city people needs not be curable, and this is always a symptom after rapid development of urbanisation. A side effect that has seldom be addressed by the planners and architects. Our world has over 6.4 billion of people, and the humaine management of each of us the kind of homo sapiens is nearly impossible. We suffer from all kinds of social problem every moment, and the Darwinism simply explains parts of the world at present. To live in the civilisation is not an easy task.

A setting up of SWT should be a profitable business to my understanding, and another emerging industry should be dream selling. Save your money for the new products to be released soon, but well, perhaps at that point of time, we buy it not by cash notes but something else...