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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. 1 G6 Q& s4 Z- S( K# ^& n& w6 r7 r: O6 ~% ^
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”。 ! e7 a4 F8 _) o Z* Q8 R/ L1 J. T - `8 j5 L1 W# X) a$ RIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; H8 e. O- q& \2 V, T
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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。, h+ d, e( \" H) K
}8 p9 T/ t2 ?, G2 m3 Q5 _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. " P( d& H9 ~, y2 ]4 M U8 }: t( Y; v7 e) E M+ y
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。 . y+ V5 |7 P4 W a9 q8 Q - c2 ^/ y m1 I/ z* \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. 2 o7 ~1 {8 v9 w0 l0 n5 R% ?4 [: V- U3 Z' K
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。: P0 e# A( X% _
^( [8 g+ ~) F* M3 P1 b- jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& @& f( `+ L. M8 [' ]
* F3 g6 L! v0 J) hBut 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. $ r3 p. D! @6 a2 Q! K! _* _( V+ a. 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。 , K. R% N {5 G% z" F! v . X- O% n! }" f4 w- k9 R1 f/ Y+ t* xThe 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. 9 R3 V# G: `& O* L# K1 G1 Q* U9 e
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。 & A! p9 N9 H% K# q( ?% n: |. u, l& D# c8 |+ I
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. 9 c( m; t- [9 }
$ W v+ e3 E" |' e# b0 e2 ^7 rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; @. i; } O! g
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# B. u* N! p8 [2 I7 ]0 R* A
7 {, m; Q- i& V% H( PHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* ~2 P2 c B N
5 z/ c @; q9 l8 T! C5 f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 w) ?9 s6 I: H' E e" B7 ]7 L& Z! t \. T% i
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. "$ C, n0 c+ l- L6 v1 L* i
5 Y# e6 |+ B- a) r0 N, E& f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。, f, R7 S1 C* T% B9 Z6 V" c1 h
2 P3 O6 m" m3 O' wTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 p4 l$ @" E: h. |' a2 }; G
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9 C2 D' U" t9 n3 J$ ~9 HLife. 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." ( e" k T/ t1 h% J; X/ y: R! C" ^: [0 T7 z3 {
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”。 ' L I* i1 x" W6 f& U! \; { ' S# }: o. }% Z5 V" b6 v1 t[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html