Recently, a friend showed me her mobile phone, with a despairing sigh. The screen was a mosaic of photos of a goggle-eyed baby, taken from every conceivable angle, sometimes holding chirpy, handwritten messages. “It’s overwhelming my inbox!” she muttered, explaining that four months earlier she had become a grandmother to the infant, who lived in a different city. A decade ago, that would have meant she only saw the baby every month — say, over a holiday meal.
最近,一位朋友帶著一聲絕望的嘆息,把她的手機給我看。螢幕上是一個睜大眼睛的嬰兒各個角度照片的拼接圖,有的照片還附帶了快活的手寫資訊。「這塞滿了我的收件箱!」她嘟囔著,解釋說螢幕上是她那4個月前剛出生的孫子。孩子和父母在另一個城市生活。若是換到10年前,她只能一個月見到孩子一次,比如在節日聚餐的時候。
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