What?

你說什麼？

"Choose life."

「選擇人生」。

Simon says it sometimes.

Simon 有時候會這樣說。

He says, "Choose Life, Veronika."

他會說：「Veronika，選擇人生。」

Choose Life...

選擇人生啊......

"Choose Life" was a well-meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign.

「選擇人生」是從 1980 年代的反毒品運動而來，是蠻有意義的標語。

And we used to add things to it.

我們以前會加上一些東西。

So I might say for example: Choose...

例如我可以會說：選擇......

...designer lingerie in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship.

設計師內衣，試著把彷彿死水的戀愛關係救回來。

Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes.

選擇手提包、選擇高跟鞋。

Cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for "happy."

選擇克什米爾毛衣和絲綢，讓自己感覺到「快樂」。

Choose an iPhone, made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick in the pocket of your jacket, fresh from a South Asian firetrap.

選擇 iPhone，由中國一個跳樓的女人所製，再把它塞進外套口袋，才剛從南亞的血汗工廠新鮮出爐。

Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across people you've never met.

選擇 Facebook、Twitter、Snapchat、Instagram 或其他千萬種方式，對沒見過的人吐苦水。

Choose updating your profile.

選擇更新個人檔案。

Tell the world what you had for breakfast, and hope that someone, somewhere, cares.

告訴全世界你吃什麼早餐，希望某個地方的某人會在乎。

Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do.

選擇查看前任狀況，絕望地希望你看起來沒他們糟。

Choose live blogging, from your first wank to your last breath.

選擇直播你的生活，從出生的第一口氣到斷氣。

Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data.

人與人的互動早已只剩數據。

Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who'd had surgery.

選擇十件你不知道的整形名人的事。

Choose screaming about abortion.

選擇怒斥墮胎。

Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny.

選擇強暴笑話、蕩婦羞辱、復仇式色情，和無盡又令人沮喪的厭女情節。

Choose "9/11 never happened," and if it did it was the Jews.

選擇 911 從未發生，如果發生了，就是猶太人的錯。

Choose a zero-hour contract, and a two-hour journey to work.

選擇零時合約和通勤兩小時的工作。

And choose the same for your kids, only worse.

替你的小孩選擇同樣的工作，還可能更糟。

And maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened.

告訴自己，也許沒生孩子比較好。

And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen.

接著坐下，用某人在他 X 的廚房做的不明毒品，把痛苦壓下。

Choose unfulfilled promise.

選擇沒完成的承諾。

And wishing you'd done it all differently.

後悔自己當時做的選擇。

Choose never learning from your own mistakes.

選擇不從錯誤中學習。

Choose watching history repeat itself.

選擇看歷史重演。

Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for.

選擇對自己能得到的慢慢妥協，而不是尋求你一直想要的東西。

Settle for less and keep a brave face on it.

退而求其次，還要假裝沒事。

Choose disappointment.

選擇失望。

And choose losing the ones you loved, and as they fall from view a piece of you dies with them.

選擇失去你愛的人，在他們漸漸淡出你的生活時，一部分的你也跟著死了。

Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone.

直到未來的某天，一個一個，他們全都走了。

And there will be nothing left of you to call alive or dead.

你再也分不出來自己是死是活。

Choose your future, Veronika.

選擇你的未來，Veronika。

Choose life.

選擇人生。

Anyway, it amused us at the time!

無論如何，那時我們覺得很好玩！