今天早上在外出辦事時我剛好碰上了Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic 衝浪大賽決賽。

When running some errands this morning I chanced upon the Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic Surfing Competition Final.

我一開始充滿了好奇並想瞄一眼，但是人潮車潮把我推向了海灘的大老遠處，以致我僅僅能約莫看到海浪間漂浮著的幾個黑點與海灘上擁簇著的更多的黑點們。

I was initially curious and wanted to steal a peek, but with the crowd and traffic I ended up so far down the beach, that I could barely see a few dots floating amongst the waves and many more dots densely scattered on the beach.

於是我駐足眺望著海灘；海灘的遠處，有一些黑點在爭執著誰在海浪上旋轉的更好些，雖然他們居然能夠乘著浪的一個事實其實就已經足夠精彩了。

So I stood and gazed at the beach; far down the beach, some dots are fighting over who spins better on the wave when the mere fact of them wave riding is already amazing.

我可以確信，當我們建築師們為了一個局部細節掙扎時，對於非建築師們來說我們也可以看起來像一堆黑點不知道在爭執著什麼。而我們也會忘卻，我們居然能夠為人們生活行為的方方面面提供物理空間的一個事實，其實就已經足夠精彩了。

I am sure when us architects struggle with a corner detail, to non- architects we also look like a bunch of dots fighting for something. And we can forget the mere fact of us providing physical form to various aspects of people’s lives, is already amazing.

就一下下，我只想簡單的眺望海灘而退出作為黑點們的一員。就這麼一下下。

For a little while, I simply want to gaze at the beach and quit being a dot. For a little while.