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One 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.% V7 m5 j. o U% c5 Q9 e
. T/ y! h+ y5 f$ K: Z8 [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”。 % [3 E" v+ w8 U2 C1 l5 O( [8 n! o& i6 v; n! q4 G0 T0 S
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; ]! j: Z$ T- q* X m+ V
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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。+ P! k6 G* x" n" ~/ u% ~1 l
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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. 5 ^; a7 `% s+ A* }- D. O } - ]+ e$ T0 k2 \- P2 T" m& q; u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。; C1 H0 I& y% [( Q
% d! c& o, P% R. IA 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.; R7 \4 C$ |* w. C) j' O
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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。 & U/ I. X2 g4 z4 s & r, G7 q3 n) D |- N( QWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 L; F$ K8 \& K
5 d4 Q6 m- S9 Q- q: a" Q$ s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。 . Z: X$ `( |# g) w* [" i8 L( X, Y3 r6 q0 [/ @0 g0 W, x$ n
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." `/ Q/ Y, \: N4 d4 W
O; ?$ \& F! M2 ~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。! I: o" U( n l$ o
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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. & ~7 L& y' e8 ^' ^- l" O ^' L) |& Q+ Y# Z% A
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。" I$ ]/ O+ _' }& u
' M% p' w$ p* b; QYou 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. . m8 [9 Q5 f) x) A/ E- \7 I$ U! O& F+ A9 q* G0 C0 ]
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。 ) t* G) h: y5 i: m- Y - v. Z3 Y2 S6 O- \8 }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* M P1 I, D# K8 g2 V
# _$ G. D: _0 t, E: G' H* b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 E. L0 W, B; l9 ^6 B3 r
& `5 j" d* e8 j* X% K! KHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 _* |6 C9 G4 Y _8 B8 S9 J! `7 A* W: L7 }- O! s: Z& d
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。+ g8 H+ Q9 r2 G
5 f- E8 q- H6 w* B% C8 eFor 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. ": n( Y/ q6 h' W, U
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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。+ g' u+ D4 e `7 T a6 c
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: M ?8 d) ~- _$ E; F
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 , o; h) v; |& c8 N - p0 V; q; @' R1 H, i9 rLife. 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."& y; o$ [1 [5 W7 r
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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”。$ n2 L1 g" v2 v( k/ F) v
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