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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.5 D, f' w9 H; E6 u3 |8 W' L
- f; N9 [ M6 n: O3 r& }% x- z s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”。 1 T: e' f& n' [' }: q# I7 e2 W7 P7 w4 f; o: w* E( G
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* }( R4 g0 u S$ E' b/ F6 Q
2 t- c4 L& h- \& \3 ` b8 y# k: _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。 ' Y8 ` f0 ~! }/ G/ U: B8 u . g+ Q3 q& L3 R5 ]+ XSome 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. 8 I5 k* Y# m( C% g* O8 w- w) v; d
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。 * K: o, }; ]" g ; \1 [+ Q" Q/ b+ q y6 q8 zA 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.$ I6 D0 Z; W, K- j2 t4 g
5 B U- ^. \% {) ^8 U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。 1 ]5 Y! L! L9 e9 k+ X( C6 l" X0 b
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / K+ k/ B9 ?0 R4 R! _, ^5 o: m& N# k- k0 w& Z1 J8 l# b1 M
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。 7 P2 R' F( g X9 Q4 P k3 B1 H+ u8 e+ I2 X3 T
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. * D; N5 _( Y: T3 ~; ^4 o2 h2 A7 _9 Q/ d0 y" R" G9 A: \
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。( a2 f) G, s$ f4 Y
9 D- r7 m6 E, x6 ^. WThe 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.: J0 A3 O2 z3 @$ Y* w2 u; |
) ?5 z+ m- H: }; h3 z- 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。 $ Z# {. T& ]% ^- q/ u* c$ M- J; h/ v0 T! m! e5 O
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. - T# W5 z/ M& p2 |. L " R1 [2 y9 ]: X( H+ ]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. L6 }8 j$ I) Y, C9 {& d/ l/ ^$ C7 S
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 Z g0 ?0 {! U 9 g. B: R. l# @$ a& c2 U% N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& N+ @. m& J0 J! E, M* h
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 b' b) [2 r2 E, M, b
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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。" _3 l! `# S- G/ f/ p
( ^1 B i( ^3 _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. "* t" X1 }) c2 J
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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。 2 P) a: P7 e6 Q 5 |3 n6 ~; @. {7 G/ NTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " B8 a# _' ~% m% S% {+ ~. M. A" V; E" @: R
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 5 M$ A0 y% y& `6 P3 Z, c$ x' `8 x- ?2 I; S5 g
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."% q# G' q- z9 t9 {
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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”。5 y+ d2 n. n, V
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