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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.0 R# H4 j/ p: a6 i3 F
' z5 J* p9 Z( a8 i. ^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”。 4 \! F0 Z- E W# [( _8 v7 B+ ^9 q) x+ t: |
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 D- k( F. o( o
: G4 w1 ]4 | M) \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。% |$ i$ z( X- n% |3 K* t2 z
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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." A2 q3 f9 Q1 O# L) }! c7 X2 s
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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。 2 y9 k) \: m5 z. h# e# c4 t4 ^" r/ E
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. % _ A) ]+ x. Z' \9 \6 Q1 O, F# l% e. Q E/ G" m" @* H* p
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。; L: V' q) w9 c4 L# M
8 V& _! R5 J9 B' pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ) s2 x8 r# E' e5 d5 z; a0 L ! ~7 Z. t4 H& c3 F7 c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。% N2 S2 y: b+ a7 R$ |! P" {2 g
3 s4 [ O8 E7 V9 p) A' X& MBut 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. : B8 f' x) ]/ ]5 u+ R- P/ ] $ ]9 |8 x: |; r. P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。! U: P* Z4 w9 P4 H+ j! D
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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. / S( w4 F+ d7 _2 P0 n# t5 w8 N' o# Z
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。 $ p) _( }& a3 V( h& j. m$ U% c, w! v5 |) H; 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. 5 U. d+ j+ v3 F# i' f3 j' G
: x! N7 E( N: J: C# s, L. H7 \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 8 E2 h/ A! q4 c+ H; |" e r' J. q% G& m- q% U9 o. j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 , z6 S2 ?5 } U5 h4 c9 [" s2 x/ ]) U; g8 S* C2 H8 u, K
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % Q0 [. }3 ~0 C3 L) ^! l+ @) K9 H* D3 s* Y) {
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。* r- H% d4 o) h- Y5 E7 G2 M
% P6 I% q* k( }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. " ) x# ^' M' E* x. D / T; S$ U/ E" |" u+ _! [6 w) T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。 % a% n" q, x8 t& c2 E" V ?! ?3 Z7 Y$ J" G+ ]$ l9 ]( H
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) I% ?' n5 v) h; b) @
' m' k, j7 _; \" u$ ~“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& g. \ I0 U
5 e+ }; i1 j2 t+ M+ S( [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 R' O( G3 s" p7 h$ ?) t) w# ~
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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”。 $ \( J6 V% N& v; S2 j: Z1 j5 P# T) |7 S8 k
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