不能因为它没能永远开下去，就说它没价值啊

绘◎也 圆

不能因为它没能永远开下去，就说它没价值啊

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

绘◎也 圆

"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 破产；倒闭. I was devastated②devastated 英 ['devəsteɪtid] 美 ['dɛvəstetɪd] adj. 毁坏的；极为震惊的 v. 毁坏；摧毁（devastate的过去式和过去分词） ③divorce 英 [dɪ'vɔːs] 美 [dɪ'vɔrs] vt. 使离婚，使分离；与……离婚 n. 离婚；分离 vi. 离婚. I'd just gotten divorced③. I felt like a complete④complete 英 [kəm'pliːt] 美 [kəm'plit] adj. 完整的；完全的；彻底的 vt. 完成failure. For months I couldn't even drive down⑤drive down 沿着……行驶the street where the shop had been. But one day a friend told me that I'd been looking at it all wrong⑥all wrong 大错特错. He told me: ' You're focused too much on⑦focus too much on 太过关注……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.'"

“这不是我第一次开花店，二十年前我就开过一间，但它倒闭了。当时我一蹶不振，而且那时我刚离婚，有一种彻底的挫败感。几个月我都不能开车经过那间店所在的那条街。但有一天一个朋友告诉我，说我的想法大错特错，他说：‘你把注意力太多地放在了关门上，想想你开店的那些年，想想你做过的那些工作、你卖的那些花、你服务过的那些人吧。你都开了二十年，开都开了，不能因为它没能永远开下去，就说它没价值啊。’”