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When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that
When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that
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2025-04-07
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When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family".
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life" ,and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12 hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a well-established trend. Downshifting — also known in America as "voluntary simplicity" — has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anticonsumerism. There are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-’90s equivalent of dropping out.
While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline — after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ’80s—and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down-shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the ’80s, downshifting in the mid-’90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life — growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations. [br] The writer’s experiment shows that downshifting______.
选项
A、enables her to realize her dream
B、helps her mold a new philosophy of life
C、prompts her to abandon her high social status
D、leads her to accept the doctrine or She magazine
答案
B
解析
从文章第2段的内容可知,令人惊讶的是,大约两年半的时间,我写了两部小说,随后,我的这种被美国人称为“慢节拍”的尝试已经将我那陈旧的借口变成了事实;我已经由过去七年里Linda Kelsey在《她》杂志上一再宣扬的“拥有一切”哲学的积极倡导者,变成一个对一切浅尝辄止就感到喜悦的女人;从第3段的内容可知,我发现,放弃那种“快节奏生活”的教条而选择“放缓节奏”的做法带来的回报要比金融方面的成就和社会地位的提高丰厚得多。据此可知,“放缓节奏”的实践促使作者改变了人生观。B项与文章的意思相符,因此B项为正确答案。
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