路｜rOAD

路｜rOAD

路是人走出來的。
即使走錯了路；走回頭路；走冤枉路；走新的路，
起過一步，總好過停下腳步。
rOAD is made by walking.
Even if one takes the wRONG road or the road bACK or lONG road or a nEW road, this is always better taking the fIRST sTEP than stopping without stepping fORWARD.

魯迅（一八八一年九月二十五日至一九三六年十月十九日）－《吶喊》之《故鄉》，末段：
Lu Hsun*₁ (25th September, 1881-19th October, 1936) – the last part of “Hometown” of “Call to arms”*₂:

我想：
希望本是無所謂有，無所謂無的。
這正如地上的路；其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。

I think:
There is nO such thing as “hAVING” or “nOTHING” to “hOPE” for.
It is like the rOAD on the gROUND; in fact, there is nO road on the ground, just it has been walked a lOT by people, then it bECOMES a road.

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nOTES:
*₁: Lu Hsun was, also known as Lu Xun or his real name – Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of Chinese modern literature, writer and philosopher, also an editor, a poet, a literary critic, en essayist and a translator.

*₂: “Call to arms” is a collection of 14 short stories, published from 1918 to 1922 by Lu Shun and first edition was released in 1923. This collection truly depicts the social life of people from the time between the “Revolution of 1911” and the “May Fourth Movement, 1919”, also reveals various deep social contradictions and conflicts between people.