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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./ @2 V$ _" @/ O& E R) w
) p9 N# G! T3 r/ ~% h& _3 TIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ! J* t7 D! i: \+ a0 R3 z 6 k; K: G9 B# g9 T4 i; @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。8 \- S0 n6 Q) `9 u3 ^
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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. / S) w1 E* \ Y, G, [# ?3 }+ r" H8 s1 g$ {2 P' M& d) 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。3 l8 ? o) [9 K- O
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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.% `8 _$ V9 y& ^0 {/ A0 ]% L& }
% L% b3 [1 J( x. Z0 p9 Y$ [7 |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。 - t9 g" k* I2 J ' b; R- ~. L- f9 O0 kWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 d! D. p$ s7 U! y7 h4 ?* j- r. n
0 S! o) h3 ~* Z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。4 r& ?3 c0 ^) x$ I o5 ]9 \7 _
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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. ; e/ x H( Q% c" y7 u" C% W: O+ \8 F4 Z7 K4 _: Q0 ?
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。 # }8 H9 x' ~6 A ; {, _/ n: j5 Z5 VThe 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. p! k: u6 s- B; Z$ n
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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。 . P6 J' D( _9 w9 U5 F# Q$ k3 K5 s: h; H) ~% c+ _! J- T) r
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. ! q7 M3 [: h6 F
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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 A4 }$ N) n6 ?- t
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 D0 `) _- X; @+ \3 l+ R
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! Q/ E9 W0 T" S0 \; q 0 V- m$ `2 L+ ~0 K! 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。 6 I$ g3 \; t$ q6 p6 d2 k+ [7 ~- }
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. "9 i7 y! }4 l1 p% L6 D- G3 s
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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。 8 S' F6 K; O; Z$ G A. \ : V9 K& H7 }8 C" K' R: L9 [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 D1 [$ }1 z& L5 Y
" P% C$ Q* ~( ?, \6 q) v% Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ! l# v( {* y* m$ c9 R1 Q! V3 C- d- E5 n$ a" O9 u
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." % }2 e1 T2 `: N! c% K7 p4 E- ~& N% V. d( S( 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”。1 s# j8 N! r4 Y% g4 s3 O/ C4 u
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