Instead, vault it. Copy everything that's too much to look at onto an external hard drive or some remote backup system, and then delete it from your machine. Put that hard drive in a sock drawer or under your bed. Give it to a friend. Place it where it won't distract and won't harm, but, when you're ready, can provide a vivid reminder of who you used to be. That's incredibly powerful! Don't destroy it on a whim。
把它珍藏起来。把那些不忍看的东西复制到外接硬盘或移动储存设备上，然后把电脑里的都删了。把硬盘锁进装袜子的抽屉，或是塞到床下。交给朋友保存也行。总之，把它放在一个不会让你分心和伤心的地方，然后等你恢复过来的时候，它便能重放过去那个栩栩如生的你。这可棒极了!千万别冲动之下毁掉它。
Playlists播放列表
Yeah, toss these. All leftover playlists will do is smear heartbreaking meaning and nostalgia over songs you'd otherwise enjoy. Remember, you made this playlist explicitly for your ex—you tailored songs you both love in an order you thought might make them smile and miss you. And all those memories could swamp you based on nothing but this otherwise innocuous list of MP3s. So get rid of the list. Keep the songs though。
没错，扔了它们。所有那些你们曾经喜欢过的歌曲，都会在下一次播放的时候，提醒你那些心碎的过往并唤起你的追忆之心来。记住，这些歌曲列表是你为前任专门设置的，它们是你俩都喜欢的歌，你曾为了让ta开心和想念你而特意排列了顺序。这些回忆能让你凭空悲伤，所以把这些播放列表删掉吧，但歌可以保留。
Emails邮件
Emails can be as banal and brief as any text message, but there are plenty of exceptions: long ones penned while abroad, or traveling, mail with attachments, breakup letters, I Miss You letters. Rather than sift through everything, archive it all. Do a search for his or her email, select all, and pack it away into a folder. Remember: this email is part of your life history. It includes details you won't remember by the time you're long over the breakup, and you'll be grateful for them。
电子邮件有时候就跟手机短信一样乏味而简洁，不过也有例外：比如出国或旅游时写的长邮件、带附件的邮件、以及分手信和思念信。与其筛遍所有邮件，不如全部归档。然后把和ta有关的邮件找出来，全选并放到一个专属文件夹。记住：邮件也是你的生活记录。它们包含了那些你在分手很久以后会忘记的细节，而到时候你会庆幸自己保留了它们。
Texts手机短信
Delete—this is just an invitation to wallow and/or leap back into ill-advised contact. Both are bad for you。
删了吧。这些短信只会让你沉溺于悲伤或诱使你去联系那个不该再联系的人。无论怎样都对你没好处。
Facebook tagsFacebook的圈人标记
Again, an opportunity to wallow, a web browser shortcut to melancholy. And who wants a future prospect to see a bunch of pictures with your ex?
这个也是诱使你沉溺于往事的坏东西，而且还是个浏览器的捷径。任何希望有个光明未来的人都不会想看到一堆自己和ex的合影的!
There should be a pattern emerging here. It's difficult, but you need to discern what baggage is going to be useful even after all the heavy, horrible, hurtful emotions wear off. What are the bytes that'll have significance on their own, without the love connection? What stuff will remind you about your life in some broader sense than a relationship that occupied some months or years of it? What'll be that GIF or TXT you wish to hell you hadn't erased, because who knows what it might've reminded you of about the way you used to be?
