Name: 【TED】漢娜，布蘭契 (Hannah Brencher) : 給陌生人的情書 (Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers)
Uploaded: 2015-11-02T23:00:00.000Z
Duration: 4 min 53 s

I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason

to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day,

每天都要到郵政信箱報到的孩子

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and that was mainly because my mother has never believed

in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones in general.

我媽從來就不相信電郵、臉書、簡訊或手機這些東西

And so while other kids were BBM-ing their parents,

所以，當其他人都在用黑莓機連絡爸媽時

to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone,

等一封家書，看看家裡近況如何

which was a little frustrating when Grandma was in the hospital,

but I was just looking for some sort of scribble,

And so when I moved to New York City after college

and got completely sucker punched in the face by depression,

I did the only thing I could think of at the time.

I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me

我照著媽媽以前寫給我的信，再寫了一些給陌生人

for strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city,

dozens and dozens of them. I left them everywhere,

in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N., everywhere.

放在咖啡廳、圖書館、聯合國總部，每一個地方

I blogged about those letters and the days

然後，我在部落格上公布了這件事

告訴大家什麼時候可以拿到這些信

that if you asked me for a hand-written letter,

I would write you one, no questions asked.

Overnight, my inbox morphed into this harbor of heartbreak

一夜間，我的郵箱變成許多傷心的人的避風港

a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied

一位沙加緬度的單親媽媽、一位被霸凌的堪薩斯農村女孩

in rural Kansas, all asking me, a 22-year-old girl

who barely even knew her own coffee order,

連自己點什麼咖啡都搞不清楚的女孩

to write them a love letter and give them a reason

如今，我正協助促進一個國際組織

that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox,

fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media

這個組織史無前例地利用社群媒體

like never before to write and mail strangers letters

when they need them most, but most of all,

fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate,

用像這個裝了郵件的紙箱支撐著，我最可靠的裝信紙箱

filled with the scriptings of ordinary people,

strangers writing letters to other strangers not because

they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee,

並非因為他們將要見面或者喝杯咖啡聊天

but because they have found one another by way of letter-writing.

而是因為他們藉由寫信發現彼此

But, you know, the thing that always gets me

但你知道嗎，我老是被這些信感動的是

about these letters is that most of them have been written

其中大部分的信是被一些從來不知道

by people that have never known themselves loved on a piece of paper.

他們自己喜歡紙上文字的人所寫

They could not tell you about the ink of their own love letters.

他們無法告訴你他們自己情書上的油墨。

the ones of us that have grown up into a world

where everything is paperless, and where some

of our best conversations have happened upon a screen.

We have learned to diary our pain onto Facebook,

我們知道怎麼將我們的痛苦記錄在臉書上

and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.

我們講話時非常簡短，有時用到少於140字母

But what if it's not about efficiency this time?

I was on the subway yesterday with this mail crate,

昨天我拿著這個裝了信件的紙箱搭地鐵

which is a conversation starter, let me tell you.

我跟你說，這紙箱是一個話匣子

If you ever need one, just carry one of these. (Laughter)

如果你需要話題的話，就帶一個吧 (笑聲)

And a man just stared at me, and he was like,

有個男人盯著我看，他看起來好像是在說：

「奇怪了，為什麼你不用網路呢？」

And I thought, "Well, sir, I am not a strategist,

我心想：「先生，我不是戰略家

nor am I specialist. I am merely a storyteller."

也不是專家。我姑且算是一個說故事的人吧。」

whose husband has just come home from Afghanistan,

and she is having a hard time unearthing this thing called conversation,

她經歷一段非常艱難的時間想辦法和丈夫溝通

and so she tucks love letters throughout the house

Or a girl who decides that she is going to leave love letters

另外，有個女孩決定要將情書放在

around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to find

自己位在愛荷華州迪比克的校園裡

her efforts ripple-effected the next day when she walks out

onto the quad and finds love letters hanging

from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches.

有情書掛在樹上，藏在草叢和長椅中

Or the man who decides that he is going to take his life,

另一則是有個男人決定要結束他的生命

Well, tonight he sleeps safely with a stack of letters

嗯，今晚他舒適地睡在一疊信中

just like this one tucked beneath his pillow,

就像我手上這一疊信，塞在他的枕頭下

scripted by strangers who were there for him when.

這些信由那些一向支持他的陌生人們所寫

These are the kinds of stories that convinced me

that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair

and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now,

也不是要講求效率的事，因為現在這已經是種藝術

all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing,

每個部分都是：簽名、筆跡、郵寄

The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down,

pull out a piece of paper and think about someone

拿出一張紙，從頭到尾想著一個人

the whole way through, with an intention that is so much

而這樣的心意是打開網路瀏覽器

harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iPhone

iPhone發出訊息聲告訴我們一次接收六則對話

is pinging and we've got six conversations rolling in at once,

that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster,"

不論我們加入多少社群網絡媒體

no matter how many social networks we might join.

並不會敗倒在「快速」哲學巨人之下

We still clutch close these letters to our chest,

to the words that speak louder than loud,

更強烈地述說著早就想大聲說的事情

when we turn pages into palettes to say the things

當我們將這些書信化為調色盤，去訴說著

the words that we have needed to write, to sisters

and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.

給我們的兄弟姊妹，甚至是陌生人，讓他們永遠珍藏

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