Night Chating of Seafarer
Taiwan
September 14, 2008
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For a long time,my mind wandered among all the troubles through which I had passed. I was not able to figure out the way to do for the next.
"Mister Carlos,Please proceed to the counter,a phone call for you."a broadcasting awakened me from my meditation.
"This is Carlos speaking,and are you Capt.Liu ?"
"I'm not .Are you really Mr.Carlos?"he said with a little hesitation.
"Yes,I am Carlos all right. Could you tell me who you are ?"I said and completely lost myself.
A moment later,he said "I am your agent,Capt.Liu wanted me to pick you up.""Oh!very good!Now the air port is in the dark,and where are you by now ?"I said.
"In my house."he said in a very low voice .
To hear this ,I really wanted to kick his asshole,if I could."Aren't you surposed to meet me at the air port beforehand ?"said I.
"Well,I had picked up nobody several times before you.and I thought you would probably miss this place like them.So I waited at home and make a call before going there.Now ,please,wait
a moment,I'll be there very soon.Bye!"said he.
I was the first one to arrive here,fortunately still on the Earth.I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.I should be very proud of it ,shouldn't I?But,I was getting to worry what had happened to the others .
Is it really a good job to be a seafarer ?
September 7, 2008
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I had been in the middle of my long long journey,and I had enough reasons to take fright.What if I lost here,in the middle of nowhere ?
At that time,I ,just like the most part of friends on Ebaby,was very bad in English.But,I had no choice.I got to go for it,the momey to get my family out of the poverty.The economics of the family needed my help.I only knew I must keep going on ,even I had no idea for what would be waiting ahead of me.
Looking outside the window of airplane flying southbound to Panama city,heading toward the unknown future,watching the light of sunset dying down backward with dim color of cloud,I was coming to guess what my family was about to do this time. That good-hearted stranger should be happily with his family by now,I believed.I came to envey him very much.
Long distance of flight began pushing me tired.The long-term struggle for life and family became a heavy burden to me. The look of my dearly parents gradually became a blurred in my dream.Yes,I was really tired,I needed a good sleep.........
The plane knocked against the ground ,and waking me up from my dream.It had taken many stopover before destination,and the passengers are reducing little by little.I felt more lonely too.
At last,there were a few passengers to get off the plane.From the conveyer,I took my heavy luggages ,started to look for Capt.Liu.
It's really a very small air port. The passengers went home very soon.I was the only one left inside the desolate building. The clerk of Airlines told me that there was nobody looking or leaving any message for me.
"Could I be at the wrong place?"I asked ,"and why couldn't I see any harbor nearby ?"
"By the way ,I'm still in Texas,not in Panama . Am't I ?"
The clerk told me "Here is Panama City of Texas all right."
I could do nothing but went out the air port with my heavy luggages.I took a glimpse of this mini air port,the lights went out behind one by one.
Outside the air port was nothing but a great stretch of open fields .In sight of a flock of birds coming fly through the air ,in sight of the rays of the setting sun shone after the birds into the sky ,reflecting the sky very red, such warm and fragrant picture with a chilly but gentle breeze of late autumn made me more miss my parents.
It was 6 o'clock in Taiwan.They were about to have a dinner together,I believed.But,I......
I never felt so lonely in my life.My eyes were cloudy in my sadness,and the picture before me seemed unclear either.I had a feeling to ...., I really wanted to....But I couldn't.I knew I was an officer,.......I was a boy .
I started to hate my job.
August 30, 2008
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All the way from Taipei via Japan to Seattle,I could do nothing but eating and sitting in the cabin,like a pig.Many hours of flying passed,I finally arrived at Seattle international airport.
After knowing my first time to take so long a flight alone,the passenger beside me,a kind-hearted American on his way home in Seattle,told me "I'm home.It's very nice to be home. But ,don't worry !I will lead for you the way to the counter of your next airlines ."
He took me through a winding way from international airport to a domestic flight by asking the person we met on the way to the right counter.I just stayed with him tightly,being afraid to miss in the jungle of buildings.
In the end,I was handed over to a stewardess of domestic flight.After getting everything settled,he waved his hand and said bye bye to me.
Even though it was many years ago,today,at this very moment,I still remember his face being so lively.And only at that helpless moment,You might be able to realize how thankful I was.
I was very touched beyond words.Let me thank you gain,Stranger!
All of a sudden,I didn't know the whys ,but I was not as happy as beginning anymore.
I was getting to envy him.