我必须向前进！
I had to go farther
---Heidemarie Scheweimer
The more ascetically she lived, the happier she became. By 1995 she was deeply involved in the Tauschring, house-sitting for short periods in exchange for cleaning or light maintenance work. She was buying virtually nothing: “When I needed something, I found that it would just come into my life. My glasses, for example. There was an optician who was a member of the Tauschring and he gave them to me in return for some therapy sessions.”
她生活得欲望越少，她变得越快乐。到1995年，她彻底地投入进易货店，短期的居住是以清洁打扫卫生的工作换得。她几乎什么也不买。“当我需要什么的时候，我发现它就会在我的生命中出现。举例来说，我的眼镜。有一个眼镜商，他是易货店的会员，他把眼镜给了我作为一些治疗课程的报酬。”
It was in 1996 she realised that “I had to go farther” and took what would be the most radical decision of her life: to live without money. She gave up her apartment and teaching job and resolved to live nomadically, an “extreme lifestyle”, she admits, moving from house to house, in return for menial work. Her new way of life was intended as a short-lived thing: she had given herself 12 months. But she found herself enjoying it so much that it never really ended.
那是在1996年，她认识到“我必须向前进”并做出她生命的最本质的决定：没有钱生活。她放弃了她的公寓和教师工作而过起了流浪生活，一个“极端的生活方式”，她承认，从一个房子搬到一个房子，换来的是仆人的工作。她的新的生活方式是以短期居住为目的的--她给自己12个月。但是她发现自己如此享受这样的生活，所以这种生活从未真正地结束。
Thirteen years on, she continues to live according to the principles of Gib und Nimm. “Life became much more exciting. More beautiful. I had everything I needed and I knew I couldn’t go back to my old life. I didn’t have to do what I didn’t like, I had a more profound sense of joy, and physically I feel better than ever. Living without money was just the first step. I realised that I wanted to change the world and I wasn’t going to do that by looking after someone’s cat while they were on holiday.”
13年了，她一直按照“给与取”的准则生活着。“生活变得越来越激动。太美了！我拥有我所需要的每一样东西，我知道我不可能再回到过去的生活。我不再必须做我不喜欢的事情，我有喜不言尽的快乐，我的身体感觉也比从前好多了。没有钱的生活仅仅是第一步。我认识到我想改变这个世界，我不想再在有些人度假时仅是照看他们的猫。”
as·cet·ic [uh-set-ik]禁欲的
vir·tu·al·ly [vur-choo-uh-lee]大多数
（英文：http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6928744.ece by夜月飞花译）
