/ [$ M# u: C) N) m$ g生命就是小甜饼： 5 Y' `' D2 x; D5 ~" D1 f6 ?+ UOne 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.: a6 F4 J/ p3 M- w5 D6 B
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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”。" n/ k! F9 n$ w6 M! f. k( R* I* n" g
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 n: [' n0 G* G3 E; I
9 e U" A! _2 R" b# U$ n$ t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。 & n7 {" _, I/ `% ]2 h( q- h/ D& R% V8 s% f2 M. K" i, H( Y# f/ T
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." F8 q& o+ j! o) Z
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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。 `1 u8 G& G$ }5 N. _; M% r: t. {3 L5 d# ?: }! }: `
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. 6 _% R% R/ P; T8 h7 s" k" f; N8 Q' 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。$ `' H; B9 C* X
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. l" C0 W$ o2 O, q6 K; k8 W
. y0 u3 }* i5 m0 ABut 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. x: e1 |1 ?3 b# v8 @+ e
4 }2 i+ n& D- o1 m0 r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。 7 M h: w1 i7 P& p; D" m" A- J9 f! ]. q9 _$ A. c; h
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.1 i% z" t- I& N& A: i) U
4 y, e3 G$ g2 ?5 H( s3 o$ u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。 6 K/ O' W" l& J9 W; J/ f% | `
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. 8 c. A [( J6 E5 m. a 5 e/ M- l. J7 M, ~/ X6 D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。9 t9 P" m' Z8 T
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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. {0 j# Y! N% d( M& {; B, I+ O
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 j; {: W% B9 q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ M3 p9 W5 S) I
( Z+ B. H u W- A8 H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。 % |" b7 g* o8 a* w: t6 \" ] # ~2 C# }4 j7 n5 p, IFor 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. "1 Q! V1 R B O" M
1 V/ G9 t# L6 ~" [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。7 n d3 ]9 u8 G7 z1 K
3 Q! }9 J/ k3 fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # o9 {# B! {) _+ a8 R% }# m $ d, T1 ^% ^: X A& x“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 + s) Y" b6 ] s1 T : h6 l' G7 Z& I! j7 sLife. 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." * H8 ?; \# ~$ R9 m3 T9 ?$ T * f' s9 t. M' W, q+ h) I0 p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”。 $ S8 Z4 e9 i8 W1 p$ K' `4 [9 l+ h
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