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在生命的早期，我们用仪式来标志每个阶段，像是生日、毕业典礼，但步入晚年后呢？在这个“思前想后”的冥想演讲中，Bob Stein提出了一个新的仪式：当你长大后，把自己的东西（及它们背后的故事）分享给大家，来反思自己过去的生活并打开通向未来的大门。
n. 冲动，驱动力，倾向，心血来潮
vt. 推
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- I wasn't brought up saying grace.
- 我家并没有饭前祷告的传统。
- But for the last 20 years, we've been holding hands before every meal.
- 但在过去的20年里，每次用餐前我们都会牵住彼此的手。
- It's a beautiful bit of shared silence that brings us all together in the moment.
- 那是寂静又美好的时刻，我们在那时紧密相依。
- Ashton tells everyone to "pass the squeeze," while she assures them it's not religious.
- Ashton告诉大家，要紧握彼此，但她保证这并不带有宗教性质。
- So recently, when my family asked me if I could please do something with the more than 250 boxes of stuff that I've collected over a lifetime,
- 最近，当我的家人问我，我是否能用我一生收集的250多箱东西做点什么时，
- my ritual-making impulse kicked in.
- “举行仪式”的冲动再次涌上心头。
- I started wondering if I could go further than simple death cleaning.
- 我开始想，除去死亡清理，我还能再做些什么？
- "Death cleaning" is the Swedish term for clearing out your closets, your basement and your attic
- “死亡清理”是瑞典的习俗，在你去世前你会清理你的壁橱、地下室和阁楼，
- before you die, so your kids don't have to do it later.
- 这样你的孩子以后就不用做这些了。
- I pictured my children opening up box after box and wondering why I'd kept any of that stuff.
- 我开始想象我的孩子们打开一个又一个箱子，猜想我为什么要留着这些物什。
- And then I imagined them looking at a specific picture of me with a beautiful young woman,
- 我能想象到当他们看着我和一位妙龄女子的合影时，
- and asking, "Who on earth is that with Dad?" And that was the aha moment.
- 满腹疑惑“和我爸爸在一起的究竟是谁”。这就是“顿悟时刻”。
- It wasn't the things I'd saved that were important; it was the stories that went with them that gave them meaning.
- 并非是我留下的东西很重要，它背后的故事才是意义所在。
- Could using the objects to tell the stories be the seed of a new ritual, a rite of passage
- 是否可以通过讲述它们的故事，开启一项新仪式，
- not for a 13-year-old, but for someone much further down the road?
- 不再是给13岁准备的成人礼，而是为了更年长的人们。
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