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I’ve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. They’d lost their hom
I’ve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. They’d lost their hom
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2008-12-10
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I’ve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. They’d lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster. Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing, but the people I’ve heard from all saw their loss, ultimately, as a blessing.
"The fire saved us the agony of deciding what to keep and what to get rid of," one woman wrote. And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicated their lives.
"There was so much stuff we never used and that was just taking up space. We vowed when we started over, we’d replace only what we needed, and this time we’d do it right. We’ve kept our promise: we don’t have much now, but what we have is exactly what we want."
Though we’ve never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify. At that time we lived in a fire zone. One night a firestorm raged through and destroyed over six hundred homes in our community. That tragedy gave us the opportunity to look objectively at the goods we’d accumulated.
We saw that there was so much we could get rid of and not only never miss, but be better off without. Having almost lost it all, we found it much easier to let go of the things we knew we’d never use again.
Obviously, there’s a tremendous difference between getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster without having a say in the matter. And this is not to minimize the tragedy and pain such a loss can generate.
But you might think about how you would approach the acquisition process if you had it to do all over again. Look around your home and make a list of what you would replace.
Make another list of things you wouldn’t acquire again no matter what, and in fact would be happy to be rid of.
When you’re ready to start unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a good place to start.
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as a blessing.
解析
本题空白处问“许多人把自然灾害造成的损失看作什么”。本段开头提到许多人谈论大自然怎样简化他们的生活。接着具体谈到“They’d lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires,floods,earthquakes, or some other disaster. Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing,but the people I’ve heard from all saw their loss,ultimately,as a blessing”(由于火灾、洪水、地震或其他自然灾害,他们失去了自己的家以及部分或全部财产。在这种情况下失去你所拥有的东西可能是痛苦的,但是和我通信的那些人却把损失看作是大自然的赏赐)。因此,空白处应该填“as a blessing”。
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