<p class="ql-block">在哥倫比亞、加納比海上以及巴拿馬一路同行20多天之后，友人加雷斯 (Gareth) 分別贈(zèng)言：</p><p class="ql-block">“Kevin good travels and don’t get depressed ....... you made a big difference to a lot of people’s lives in the time we travelled together ..... good travels and keep on doing what you are doing the world needs more of you....</p><p class="ql-block">... not</p><p class="ql-block">less ....</p><p class="ql-block">（*中文翻譯：凱文，旅途愉快，不要沮喪與壓抑……在我們一起旅行的這段時(shí)間里，你給很多人的生活帶來(lái)了巨大的改變……旅途愉快，繼續(xù)做你正在做的事情，世界需要更多像你這樣的人……</p><p class="ql-block">... 不是</p><p class="ql-block">更少 ....）”</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">2025年5月9號(hào)上午8點(diǎn)，在巴拿馬青年旅舍Hostel Panama Experience的門(mén)口，你我兩次擁抱道別。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">在徐徐開(kāi)動(dòng)的Uber后視鏡里，仍然看到你停立在原地。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">當(dāng)我落地哥倫比亞波哥大機(jī)場(chǎng)后，才讀到你這些告別的信息。腦海里情不自禁地一次次浮現(xiàn)初見(jiàn)你的情景和隨后我們二十多天幾乎形影不離的一路同行。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">初見(jiàn)你是我們?cè)诟鐐惐葋唴⒓印胞湹铝重湺炯瘓F(tuán)的暴力與沖突后的轉(zhuǎn)型 （Violence & Post-conflict of Medellin’s Cartel）”的同一個(gè)City Walk(城市漫步)。結(jié)束之后，我邀你想不想接著坐纜車(chē)到山頂觀(guān)景？</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">于是，在隨后的二十多天里，我們從麥德林(Medellín)坐過(guò)夜巴士到卡塔赫納(Cartagena)，又一起前往圣瑪爾塔(Santa Marta)和布里塔卡(Buritaca)，并在你的推薦下，一同參加了從哥倫比亞的卡塔赫納乘Santana號(hào)雙體帆船(Catamaran)沿巴拿馬海岸圣布萊斯 (San Blas) 群島的跳島游(Islands hopping)。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">你這些道別文字，溫柔細(xì)膩，讓我忽然看見(jiàn)了自己 - 原來(lái)在某個(gè)人的記憶里，我們也曾是這樣提著燈前行的旅人。自己渾然不覺(jué)時(shí)，卻已悄然照亮了別人的路口。 </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">雖說(shuō)你我之間并沒(méi)有吐露自己的傷心事，但是你卻用你敏銳的觸角，在剝離表象之后，感應(yīng)我內(nèi)心的抑郁(depression)。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">多奇妙啊，這世間的溫暖總是在不經(jīng)意間傳遞。就像你寫(xiě)給我的字句，本身就已經(jīng)是一束穿過(guò)云層的光，照亮并溫暖了我。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">分別之后，那些被你的特征手勢(shì)所感染的時(shí)刻，被你的關(guān)心所熨燙過(guò)的煩惱，被你的笑容烘焙過(guò)的清晨，都在你看不見(jiàn)的角落繼續(xù)發(fā)酵。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">也許你以為自己只是微弱的螢火，卻不知在我一個(gè)疲憊的夜歸人眼里，早已成為我不敢熄滅的勇氣，并且會(huì)把它分享給未來(lái)人生旅途中遇見(jiàn)的每一位旅人。 </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">你看，美好的事物永遠(yuǎn)如此流轉(zhuǎn)。就像你帶給我的感動(dòng)，此刻正通過(guò)你的文字流向更遠(yuǎn)的地方。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">這份流轉(zhuǎn)的本身，或許就是我們對(duì)共同旅程最好的紀(jì)念。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">再見(jiàn)，加雷斯，再見(jiàn)，親愛(ài)的朋友！</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">【A Farewell to Gareth】</p><p class="ql-block">A goodbye message from Gareth:</p><p class="ql-block">“Kevin good travels and don't get depressed ....... you made a big difference to a lot of people's lives in the time we travelled together ..... good travels and keep on doing what you are doing the world needs more of you....</p><p class="ql-block">... not</p><p class="ql-block">less ....”</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">At 8 am on May 9, we hugged and said goodbye, twice, at the entrance of Hostel Panama Experience. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Through the rearview mirror of the slowly moving Uber, I watched you still standing there and seeing me off. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">However, it wasn’t until I landed at Bogotá Airport in Colombia that I read your farewell message. Memories flooded back: the first time we met, and the eighteen days we shared. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">We were strangers in Colombia, brought together by the same City Walk tour - “Violence & Post-Conflict of Medellín’s Cartel”. When it ended, I asked if you’d like to take the cable car up the mountain for the city view. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">And so, for the next eighteen days, we traveled side by side - an overnight bus from Medellín to Cartagena, then Santa Marta and Buritaca. At your recommendation, we sailed together from Cartagena on a Santana Catamaran, island-hopping through Panama’s San Blas archipelago. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Your goodbye was tender and thoughtful, and it made me see myself anew. In your memory, I was a traveler carrying a lantern, unknowingly lighting paths at life’s crossroads. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Though neither of us spoke of our personal stories, your keen intuition sensed the melancholy beneath my surface. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">How remarkable - the warmth of this world often passes between us unnoticed. Your words became a shaft of light piercing through clouds, both illuminating and warming me. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Since we parted, moments touched by your gestures, worries soothed by your kindness, and mornings brightened by your smile have lingered, quietly unfolding in unseen corners. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">You may think yourself but a faint firefly, yet to a weary traveler like me, you were a flame I couldn’t bear to extinguish - a courage I’ll now carry forward, sharing with others on my journey. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">See how beauty flows? The tenderness you gave me now ripples onward through your words. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Perhaps, this flow is the truest tribute to the road we walked together. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Goodbye, Gareth. Goodbye, my dear friend.</p> <p class="ql-block">加雷斯臨別留言</p> <p class="ql-block">在哥倫比亞Medellin </p> <p class="ql-block">在哥倫比亞Cartagena </p> <p class="ql-block">在哥倫比亞Buritaca</p> <p class="ql-block">在加勒比海上航行</p> <p class="ql-block">在加勒比海上航行</p> <p class="ql-block">在加勒比海上航行</p> <p class="ql-block">在加勒比海上航行</p> <p class="ql-block">在巴拿馬城</p> <p class="ql-block">在巴拿馬城</p> <p class="ql-block">在巴拿馬城</p> <p class="ql-block">在悉尼重逢</p>