不能因為它沒能永遠開下去，就說它沒價值啊

繪◎也 圓

不能因為它沒能永遠開下去，就說它沒價值啊

Just Because It Didn't Happen Forever, Doesn't Mean It Wasn't Valuable

繪◎也 圓

"This isn't the fi rst time I've owned a flower shop. I owned another store twenty years ago, but it went bankrupt①go bankrupt 破產(chǎn)；倒閉. I was devastated②devastated 英 ['dev?ste?tid] 美 ['d?v?stet?d] adj. 毀壞的；極為震驚的 v. 毀壞；摧毀（devastate的過去式和過去分詞） ③divorce 英 [d?'v??s] 美 [d?'v?rs] vt. 使離婚，使分離；與……離婚 n. 離婚；分離 vi. 離婚. I'd just gotten divorced③. I felt like a complete④complete 英 [k?m'pli?t] 美 [k?m'plit] adj. 完整的；完全的；徹底的 vt. 完成failure. For months I couldn't even drive down⑤drive down 沿著……行駛the street where the shop had been. But one day a friend told me that I'd been looking at it all wrong⑥all wrong 大錯特錯. He told me: ' You're focused too much on⑦focus too much on 太過關(guān)注……the closing. Think of all the years that the shop was open. Think of all the jobs you provided, the fl owers that you sold, and all the people that you served. You were open for twenty years. It was happening. And just because it didn't happen forever, doesn't mean it wasn't valuable⑧.'"

“這不是我第一次開花店，二十年前我就開過一間，但它倒閉了。當時我一蹶不振，而且那時我剛離婚，有一種徹底的挫敗感。幾個月我都不能開車經(jīng)過那間店所在的那條街。但有一天一個朋友告訴我，說我的想法大錯特錯，他說：‘你把注意力太多地放在了關(guān)門上，想想你開店的那些年，想想你做過的那些工作、你賣的那些花、你服務過的那些人吧。你都開了二十年，開都開了，不能因為它沒能永遠開下去，就說它沒價值啊。’”