About five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.
大约五周前，我注意到我们宠物蜥蜴的皮肤越来越脏，我有点担心。第二天早上，我给丈夫和孩子们说了蜥蜴皮肤上的奇怪现象。一会儿，蜥蜴从它的水箱里出来，旧皮肤在身后流淌。
I didn't think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.
上周的一个早上，我最喜欢的茶壶被我从桌子上摔了下来，我想了很多。它裂成了几百块。当我收拾碎片时，我想知道为什么几个月来我们打破了这么多物件。
The destruction started three months ago. It was my husband's birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.
破坏是三个月前开始的，那天是我丈夫的生日。他刚失业，不确定性开始影响我们，所以我想做一些特别的事情。
“Let's make a cake for Dad!” I cried.
“我们给爸爸做个蛋糕吧！”我喊道。
My kids screamed with joy. We baked, iced and sprinkled for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!
我的孩子们高兴得尖叫起来。我们一天的大部分时间都在烘焙、加糖霜和装饰。蛋糕上的蜡烛！墙上的气球！桌子上的花！
Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass vase from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She sobbed loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.
在我丈夫从另一个工作面试回来的两个小时前，我女儿从高高的架子上爬上去拿一个玻璃花瓶。花瓶掉在蛋糕旁边摔碎了，到处都是玻璃碎片。我把蛋糕扔掉时，她大声哭泣。我丈夫生日吃了香蕉布丁。
Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After several frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance.
三天前，客厅的灯突然熄灭了。经过几个小时想要修复的失败尝试，我丈夫建议观看迈克尔·乔丹的纪录片系列《最后之舞》。
The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved basketball to play baseball and what had pushed him to make such a tough decision took me by surprise. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baseball uniform, I saw him leaving behind the layer that no longer served him, just as our lizard had. Neither of them chose the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we have to learn to leave the past behind.
乔丹从他钟爱的篮球场退役打棒球的辛酸经历，以及促使他做出如此艰难决定的原因，让我大吃一惊。当我看着他脱下篮球服，换上棒球服时，我看见他离开了不再为他服务的衣服，就像我们的蜥蜴一样。他们都没有选择改变自己，但一切改变之后他们必须接纳自己，就像我们一样。我意识到我们必须学会忘记过去。
Humans do not shed skin as easily as other animals. The beginning of change is upsetting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I see our lizard, raw and nearly new.
人类蜕皮没有动物那样容易。改变的开始令人不安，这个过程很累。在我们准备好之前，可能会受损害。我看见我们的蜥蜴，原始，几乎全新。
Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.
乔丹说，无论结局如何，它都始于希望。柔嫩、充满希望的皮肤，就是我们的起点。
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