Good Songs to Share -- Holding The One In Front Tightly (抱緊眼前人)

Anita Mui, a famous singer, whom I admire very much, has sung a lot of good songs. One of them is “Holding the One in Front Tightly”, from the composer George Lam, lyrics by Pan Yuan-liang. Each time I heard this song, the first person who occurred to my mind was not Anita but a friend. In the past, when some friends of us joined and sang “karaoke”, she always selected the song “Holding the One in Front Tightly”, and sang in a sentimental way every time like some emotions being suppressed, some stories untold. More or less this time two years ago, the only thing she could do was wait... ... wait for disentanglement, a final solution. She was surprisingly calm, strong, with nothing to hold on, passing through the remaining path of her life quietly. She shocked me, made me feel to appreciate her much more, and left behind a very strong impression on me.

When she was still alive, I urged her and suggested for her that she should take some more effective treatments, but her answer echoed, “You cannot possibly understand. Let the patient choose her own wish, would you?” Helplessly, we watched a good person living each day in countdown and gradually moving to the end of her life. Some people often boasted how good they were, constantly repeating to others what good things they did. She was a good person, but had never described herself as such, and it was only that we heard others describe her as such.

In December two years ago, when the dazzling Christmas trees and Santa’s sleigh were fading away, she withered away and left us! Why did good people die so early? I said, “Very often, Fate is puzzling us!”

Last year, hearing the first Christmas bell ring, I missed her, a good person, who had left us almost one year before.

Now, I see Christmas trees dazzling everywhere, and hear the Christmas bells ringing, Santa’s sleigh approaching nearer and nearer.

From Simon.del.mondo
Translated by Tameer