父母舍不得扔

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My parents keep absolutely everything, 我爸妈真是什么都舍不得扔，

and for years it drove me a little crazy. 好些年我都快被他们逼疯了。

Drawers full of plastic bags, cupboards of containers they'll never use, 抽屉里塞满了塑料袋，橱柜里堆满了用不上的瓶瓶罐罐，

a garage you can barely walk through. 车库里更是挤得连下脚的地方都没有。

I'd urge them to let go, and they'd just quietly refuse. 我总劝他们该扔就扔，他们却只是默默回绝。

But I've come to understand it differently now. 但现在，我有了不一样的理解。

They grew up with very little, 他们是在日子很苦的环境里长大的，

in a time when you truly couldn't waste anything, 在那个真的容不得半点浪费的年代，

when every object might be needed again. 任何东西以后都可能派上用场。

Their keeping isn't foolish. 他们舍不得扔并不是犯糊涂，

It's a habit built from a harder life than mine. 而是在比我艰难得多的岁月里养成的习惯。

So I've stopped pushing. 所以我也就不再逼他们了。

Instead of judging their full drawers, 与其对塞得满满当当的抽屉挑三拣四，

I try to see the history in them. 我试着在里面读出岁月的痕迹。

We come from different worlds. 我们毕竟来自不同的时代。

And a little more patience, I've found, 我也发现，多一点耐心，

works far better than another lecture about clutter. 远比再跟他们唠叨一顿断舍离要管用得多。