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本周加拿大《环球邮报》上发表的一篇个人文章广为传播，该文章讲述了一名来自中国的老太太长期坚持为生病的加拿大邻居做饭的事情。
令人惊奇的是，这篇文章在社交网络上疯转，在Facebook上的转发数几小时就达到约3万多！
也许这只是一则小故事，但她足以让所有人感动。。。
故事的主人公是一位81岁的加拿大老太太Angie Morris，和她的68岁中国邻居（另一位老太太）。
故事地点：加拿大温哥华。
Angie Morris年幼时生活在战时的英国，现在居住在卑诗省的温哥华。她写下了这则故事，描述了自己每天的日常生活，而她说，这些生活和作息规律都是由她的中国邻居培养起来的。
一位68岁的中国老太太得知Morris曾做过心脏手术之后，就无私的义务承担了为Morris每天做饭烧菜的工作。
Angie Morris描述了她的邻居：一名68岁中国温姓老太太（Angie Morris 称她为 ＂Wing＂，就像天使的翅膀）的日常生活。＂Wing＂的女儿人在上海，她前来加拿大帮助照顾自己的外孙。
文章开头写道：
＂我家门铃在上午11点响了。门口站着一位中国老太太，她很瘦小，她一手牵着一个小男孩，另一只手拿着纸质购物袋。小男孩正害怕地往后缩，因为我的黄色拉布拉多正试图热情地迎接他。＂
＂我认识这位太太，她不是第一次到访。她是男孩的祖母，她的女儿去年十月买下了隔壁的这间房子。＂
My doorbell rings at 11 a.m. On the step, I find an elderly Chinese lady; she is small and slight, and she’s holding the hand of a little boy. In her other hand, she holds a paper carrier bag. The boy shrinks back as my yellow Labrador tries enthusiastically to greet him.
I know this lady. It is by no means her first visit. She is the little boy’s grandmother, and her daughter bought the house next door last October. It is one of several large, heritage-style houses that have replaced smaller, older homes in my block over the past couple of years – part of the madness that has gripped the Vancouver housing market.
＂Wing＂（68岁中国太太）就像天使一样一直定期给我送饭做菜：汤、米饭、蔬菜、肉或虾，有时还有煎饼。
My visitor’s daughter, Nicole (who speaks fluent English), is currently in Shanghai, but her parents are in the house for the summer with the little boy. Nicole has apparently told her mother that I am having heart surgery shortly, and the result is that her mother has decided I need to be supplied with meals.
这一切都源于＂Wing＂的女儿Nicole把我的事讲给了她的母亲。
Nicole告诉她，我做过心脏手术，身体一直不太好，有时连上街买菜都成了困难。
当这个中国老太太听说了我的故事后，她决心无条件的帮助我烧菜做饭。。。即便我俩刚开始时沟通不畅。
＂Wing＂只会说普通话，而Morris的中文水平只限于＂你好＂。但这并不能阻碍俩个老太太之间的交流，Morris解释了她们后来如何慢慢学会沟通的过程：
Communication between my benefactor and me is somewhat handicapped by the fact that she doesn’t speak English and all I can say in Mandarin is hello. Once, she brought an iPad as well as the food. She pointed to the screen, which displayed a message from her daughter telling me that her mother wanted to know if the food was all right and was anxious to know that it wasn’t too salty for me. I am not used to iPads and was unable to find the keypad, so the lady indicated I should go with her to her house. Once there, she handed the iPad to her husband and almost immediately I found myself looking at Nicole in Shanghai and discussing her mother’s cooking and the fact I have to be careful about my salt intake.
＂突然有一天，＂Wing＂带来了她做的午饭，手里还拿了一个ipad。她指着屏幕她女儿发来英文的信息，说她想知道食物味道做得怎样？其实我之前很少用ipad，也找不到键盘，没办法回复。＂
＂＇Wing＇暗示让我去她家一起想想办法。到了她的家里，她让老伴教我如何用ipad键盘，我居然跟在上海的她女儿Nicole面对面聊上了。。。＂
＂Nicole告诉我，她母亲想知道食物味道如何，因为考虑到我必须小心对盐的摄入量。＂这一刻我真的被感动的说不出话来。
还有一次，＂Wing＂发现我自己把送饭食品盒和水瓶归还到她家门口时，她吓坏了，她赶紧拉着我进屋。
＂她一定是认为我太虚弱了。尽管我告诉她这些事对我并不是问题，但她还是坚持把我扶进屋，让我离台阶远一点。＂
“Your mother just can’t be bringing me meals like this all the time,” I protested. “I can hardly reciprocate by cooking something from my native land, like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.”
“Oh, no,” Nicole said. “She doesn’t like Western food. Don’t worry about it; she has to cook for the three of them anyway, and she wants to do it.”
“Can you at least tell me her name?” I asked.
Nicole replied that I would never be able to pronounce her mother’s first name, so it would be fine to use her surname. I’ll call her Wing for the purposes of this tale.
好几次，我对她女儿Nicole说，＂你妈妈不能总这样每天给我烧饭做菜，她总得让我自己烤点牛肉，做点约克郡布丁什么的给她尝尝，做为报答呀。。。＂
Nicole总说：＂没事的，她吃不惯西餐。别担心，她多煮一个人的饭只是举手之劳，你就让她做她想做的吧。”
＂那你至少要告诉我她的名字吧？我只知道她的姓呀＂，我问。
Nicole回答说，＂中国人的名字有点难读，我可能永远无法念好她母亲的名字，所以知道也没什么用，知道姓就行了。叫＂Wing＂就很好。＂
So here we are, two grandmothers a world away from where we were raised, neither of us able to speak the other’s language but communicating one way or another (with some help from technology). The doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar brown paper carrier bag, handed smilingly to me by Wing.
＂从此以后，每天我的门铃都会定时想起，Wing每次都拿着令人熟悉的棕色袋子和她独特的笑容出现在我家门口。＂
文章写道。＂这就是我们，来自不同国家、有着不同人生经历的两位祖母，我们谁都不会说对方国家的语言，但是这不影响我们交流。我家的门铃每天准时响起，温会抱着熟悉的牛皮纸袋，给我一个大大的微笑。＂
这篇文章昨天已经刷爆了加拿大的社交媒体，在老外的圈子里大受欢迎（希望中国人也能喜欢自己的正能量）。
很多加拿大人称赞道，＂俩个老太太的友谊变成了人们之间能够相互感知的更广泛联系的象征。＂
诚然，现在不少富有的中国人被认为是引起＂温哥华房地产疯狂的景象＂的始作俑者，种族和阶级之间紧张关系前所未有。
就在昨天，温哥华市中心爆发了民众的抗议活动。华人炒房和大温楼市投机成风的问题再次被推向了种族撕裂的高潮。
但，Morris和＂Wing＂之间的故事告诉人们，爱和友谊是跨越国别和种族界限的，所有人都应该感受到人性之间的关怀。。。
《theglobeandmail》上一位评论者说：＂在这个世界上，大多数人只想好好生活。我来自老爱尔兰，我很清楚人们之间的冲突……但问题是，大部分人天性本善，他们只希望后代们平平安安，在像加拿大这样能提供安全感的国家长大。＂
是的，大多数中国人都是友好和善良的。有个＂中国好邻居＂也是福气呀！
这个世界永远是建立在信任和＂人人为我，我为人人＂之中。坏的东西会有，但它永远无法掩盖人性中闪耀的美和善。
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