英语专业晨读美文人生篇（MP3+文本，30份）

英语专业晨读美文人生篇:岁月的便条(英音) [00:03.62]Yellow Post-Its [00:06.90]Can you still find this day, my dear, among your possessions? [00:12.48]Among the souvenirs of your trips to faraway lands, [00:16.20]the textbooks from those halcyon days [00:18.94]when you walked the hallowed portals of that engineering college, [00:22.44]the cassettes whose covers were left behind [00:25.29]after one of those bacchanalian sessions in the hostel, [00:28.46]the photographs of those classmates whose names you can't remember? [00:32.94]Or is it hidden in the darkness, put out of sight along with the book [00:37.32]you bought but never read, [00:39.07]the gift you never quite found a use for [00:41.58]and the letters you never finished or sent? [00:45.09]I can still find it here, in the city, [00:47.93]in the house which you have never visited, [00:50.22]in the kitchen where I have imaginary conversations with you. [00:54.27]It is here even when I am not, for I go out now, [00:58.53]leaving the light on and the music playing, [01:00.93]so I can return home to the illusion of company. [01:04.22]I am probably better off now. [01:06.41]Without secrets to keep from my parents. [01:09.14]Without someone to come between me and my friends, [01:12.42]me and my pastimes, me and my work, me and my sensible, [01:17.78]understandable, utilitarian life. [01:20.84]The life that I keep trying, [01:23.25]keep failing to bring in line with the expectations that [01:26.64]I keep trying, keep failing to make my own. [01:30.03]It is not that I always feel like this, [01:32.87]sometimes I yearn for those days when tears and laughter both came easy, [01:37.90]those easy and quick transitions from ecstasy to despair. [01:42.82]When a compliment could keep my mind occupied for hours on end [01:47.42]and a harsh word could prick like a pin the same skin [01:51.57]which now seems dry and insensitive. [01:54.09]Like probably millions around the world, [01:56.71]I look outside the window of a crowded bus, [01:59.78]lost