; k; f2 D' Y2 x生命就是小甜饼： % @+ n; W) N% w w9 _: h6 t$ e kOne 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. 9 J: D8 N) |, M2 `1 f' f& r. j+ ?1 ]7 R' n
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”。7 h% U, ]7 @7 f, N, o7 C
3 t1 Q: S! R# @: qIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( K8 T6 w" W A7 M( s! s! l0 e" C3 o# W" b7 G8 n D
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。 % ]' S5 h/ l" m* f6 H1 B1 x! @0 y1 Q+ Q/ l% [% _
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. # |: ]2 l' }. s* Y7 T2 L# O ) N. m$ U" J2 a* J7 S! f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。 0 `, F! F" V7 Z. o- u3 N ; y! u& s$ R4 ^0 k) ?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.5 c( m$ ^( q0 \" T! U$ E
; @1 Y- l0 g v2 F& w6 W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。 . W, T1 B( E6 k6 k+ G X( r Y% K( s- _6 Z, K8 PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " S) I1 g3 d9 Q% T( Z2 o7 J8 X6 W( g& Y- l& R- G& n: \5 r
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。 ! h: P: K7 Z: l; p. M# ?, N! v Y* N0 g( t; r
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.4 e# |: G( _3 d6 F4 N# N! O) A: f. R
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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。 6 X9 H+ E$ D& K5 v( U # O- i8 y+ E7 I! V `/ MThe 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.8 ~& N" v& s( J
' T9 P9 L N5 I* L2 P/ B1 VYou 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 i8 U, Q8 i) Q
+ e0 p: q' c8 K$ H Z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。& s9 N( `7 P, O
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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.1 N* H1 O0 M* C% A0 @) L; ~1 i
$ Q# L6 B# {7 }; J你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% }9 k: q) ]( I8 E& `: y+ Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: x' n$ U& f. L9 n2 o
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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。 ) M- ?& y& v1 w* J O N1 b. V+ }% N D( Z0 |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. " ' a+ J- L; U. M4 e5 s6 [1 u- u' j6 w! b
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。4 w3 \) E+ a3 O" b( X
7 }9 C1 w# R- r, m0 ~0 N NTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., b _$ y) z1 W0 M% e [; {$ J
: R4 G& k; z, L“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; W2 H& _4 a6 _8 C; q
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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."( } w8 {5 W* \. B& j0 ?6 D; ^4 E; }+ ^
/ t: h ?) C* p$ x' G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”。 4 h# T" k; D% a$ `; E# ]/ \/ R) w3 z- y k- l
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