/ w: I# `* O+ {0 I生命就是小甜饼： 0 [, ^3 y& w' K4 Y: f6 f4 h) OOne of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things were good. : r* o1 p7 P2 C" K- @- g0 I8 F) v/ M3 d5 n+ }
我有一位病人，他是一个成功的商人，告诉我，在他患癌症之前，凡事如果没有确定下来他就忧心忡忡。对他而言，幸福是“拥有小甜饼”。6 o/ d- w5 ~5 n. [
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + r4 d8 l$ {' x, Y2 c( ]+ G! V& a3 v. m3 t5 W) r
如果你拥有了小甜饼，一切都一帆风顺。如果你没有小甜饼，生活就一文不值。 ( r" I9 W3 l) y( ?5 N* n. H; x( ]+ X0 P8 W% f
Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address.! E' \! j9 T9 a; I
! V, o7 W0 p7 V4 i. G) s不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。 5 X+ k# l+ B2 x8 R8 Z9 v- @. M' t" q' g
A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid.2 `8 S! ^3 a) z) k+ I1 W2 B2 ]
! G$ D9 }/ o7 s0 Y' f+ ~2 I1 h9 T1 g在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。 0 v1 Q3 b; c$ ?8 H. _: v0 R% a4 R5 S2 a
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 u$ j% m) h: H7 J T: ]9 j
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当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。" u9 [- H) Q6 b- a. D! b* ?
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But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. 4 L$ ^/ O$ O, w/ r% R : ? j7 R/ x0 {& N: C, T' N4 W/ w不同的是，他只有两岁半，而我已经 43 了。我花了这么长的时间才明白小甜饼并不能使我长久感到幸福。 / w/ w6 l& N5 T; J. a4 I5 U- l' u0 \! Q) B! D3 [) F: y
The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you. % ]! e& I- T( C8 R( n. i2 [! R
从你拥有小甜饼的那一刻，它就开始破碎，或者你就开始担心它会破碎，抑或你开始担心别人拿走它。0 e, f$ d4 [3 z% J$ B% G( u. d
- W3 B5 m- W7 uYou know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. : G: ^* \3 j* v3 d i5 [9 o, Q7 z 4 \# x' j+ I/ m; }: s' p) f! j* ]为了守护你的小甜饼，为了防止它破碎或者确定别人不会从你手中夺走它，你不得不放弃许多东西。 B- R+ q4 A1 o2 B8 k' N/ p _% J0 c& G6 L0 f
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 g. D3 o+ d: L) T0 C
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# ?2 @3 h0 W7 M' e& bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 O: n* d7 K7 W! ?) ^ % |3 h' _: K* L: C9 G拥有小甜饼并不是生活的全部内容。”我的病人笑着说癌症已经改变了他。 ) w; G% t! ~- H7 Q; t5 {! m' F/ x" T! a' q* K/ B6 C! U/ Z
For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. " 8 G; w5 I4 `1 S& f; g; Y- w3 A , v9 N6 l X! B3 B* L! D& N' x: [不论他的生意是否一帆风顺，不论他在打高尔夫球时是输是赢，他有生以来第一次感到幸福。 0 i$ g3 N1 R% E& Y6 H( ~, {2 A' S5 N3 f& Y) a
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& j# K* ] `1 }6 D+ W
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Life. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?" He pauses thoughtfully. "Damn, I guess life is the cookie."7 ~5 p9 q0 Y- `; @- p
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生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。 % T. I6 @! L; H; \/ I' [+ X @/ h' u+ p9 w
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