The Crumbling Path 即將崩塌的人行道

I dreamed that I went back to my childhood, and my dad was taking my brothers and me to school. We arrived at the entrance of an underground pedestrian tunnel that looked like it was about to collapse, with many cracks and tiles falling off.

We stood there waiting for the bus. Suddenly, my dad said he needed to run an errand, leaving us there without seeming to care about our safety. But as kids, we didn’t know what to do there.

Later, he might have had a change of heart and came back to tell us not to wait for the bus there. He said it was dangerous and told us to find a different spot to wait.

He kept reminding my brothers and me not to stay there before he left again.

Then, suddenly, I had grown up. I saw stones continuously falling from the entrance of the tunnel, and I told my brothers, “Let’s get out of here and stay away from the edge,” because I felt it was really dangerous.

I tried to pull them away and explained, “See, dad just kept telling us not to stay here because it’s dangerous. We need to understand what he meant.” I remember my brothers saying they understood, that we shouldn’t stay there.

It seemed like we were waiting for a bus, and the bus stop was very close to the tunnel entrance. I kept wanting to distance myself from that entrance because I could see the stones continuing to fall, and it felt like it was on the verge of collapsing.

夢見我回到小時候，爸爸帶著我和弟弟們去上學。我們來到一個看起來像是快要倒塌的人行地下道入口，因為它外觀看來很多裂縫，還有磁磚掉下來。

我們站在那裡等公車。爸爸突然說他要去辦事情，把我們留在那裡，沒有要顧我們死活的意思。可是我們小孩子也不知道我們在那裡要幹嘛。

後來他可能良心發現，回頭跟我們說，叫我們不要站在那裡等公車。他說那邊很危險，叫我們趕快換個地方等車。

他一直叮嚀我跟弟弟們不要站在那裡等，講完他就走了。

然後突然我長大了。我看到石頭一直從地下道入口處掉下來，我跟弟弟們說：「我們趕快離開這邊，不要站在旁邊。」因為我覺得那裡很危險。

我要把他們拉走。我跟他們解釋說：「你看，爸爸剛剛就一直叫我們不要站在這裡，因為這裡很危險，我們要懂爸爸的意思。」我記得弟弟們也回說他們懂，就是不要站在那裡。

好像我們是要去辦什麼事，要等公車。公車站牌距離那個人行道入口很近。我一直想要距離那個入口遠一點，因為我看到石頭繼續掉下來，感覺它好像快要崩塌了。