# L) {4 U9 J; }8 v5 E生命就是小甜饼： + G! S' n1 E9 W/ T4 C' K2 I* iOne 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.# [3 U9 \0 ]/ Q# A% u
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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”。 - _) d+ T2 n* \, ^9 q% o8 l9 Y. A2 c$ n* P
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* {$ J, P# z+ a ^/ f. C
9 c7 E- Q9 @0 M- fSome 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.' i8 R F& u; p, M. W7 A
1 m) a( L8 H+ h( m) n5 e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。 4 m8 f$ Y" b! |/ J( h/ h& u( V1 s) t' J) 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. 4 M0 s! F! a! ]0 }; B+ e9 |6 K2 f8 ~" j9 x
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。/ f7 C( s& @$ P4 g' r
0 t. H6 G* C) r, U$ I# E7 TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 ~% _4 \* u* M8 ~- n/ O' Y
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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。 2 A# ^! Z; z- H( w- |1 j! T) M( B* L9 V$ \6 E5 c
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.# {" G9 F1 [# X# I2 S0 s: n! X( o
+ i/ g8 B6 W, X* o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。 4 t8 R1 c. N% @, w o. Q6 A& H. h9 P. M1 eThe 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.+ L) X5 o( v" c* [* }* P
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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。8 W7 N9 G' g1 p2 v& [) S
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You 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. 7 m4 w2 `# K/ c
/ t& M6 B$ D1 ? ~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。# [& U7 z& K1 K: y
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ ^( G. E! h+ n$ `
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 - l1 r) y4 f/ S+ K* p u$ g" T* ?8 B" P# C+ w3 U+ |. A2 x
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* V2 s+ ?! H8 S4 m) i- N# m
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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。 ' Z3 M7 [& w+ v7 {4 G M1 i 2 k4 R0 @ b9 QFor 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. " ; Y+ L* d$ p1 s9 J/ j! H6 k. ~; i, ?( l
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。 / f( y( `* B# A5 [2 i' R' e0 @8 ~8 ?8 r3 _( |& T# d K
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& [; J F; x$ \! T
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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。 & D/ X" Y; h- o , [3 h6 K. ^8 p: iLife. 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." / J" F: n- s7 R! r3 E- y R( v, T2 v# `1 a$ e
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”。 , Z& P. t' X8 r0 A% c/ n9 T' c% {( T) ]: H
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