# B4 E/ u4 W. r生命就是小甜饼：: X8 ?% N3 p( n& T6 a; ]
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.. W; k, `; |: `# B7 o" b! Z; v
( t: q' }1 V) N8 r5 }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”。 ' }" Q! ~0 m- P4 n2 H! {) t , G0 G; R: e, @* y, j' G' P# ?. SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 Y. J& E# Y) E l1 s 3 k* `& l: E x& f1 X8 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。 $ w) G9 `/ [& D- v. l5 P 4 q5 ]$ B. N( _: USome 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. / X- c! b( n3 d: F' [/ g- Z" D! S
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。) \8 c# `3 L( O4 ^% |- [
4 I, T+ J/ s' w% }$ P( OA 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.: l; ~" ]/ d8 V* W& Z
" @: W7 I* }0 P6 Z' w* F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。 6 f* V! ~& A2 I: t/ j& {+ I & j1 S; s! V: \" f$ R- _% u4 @2 DWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ i8 h3 t# _5 E6 [
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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。, Y" s7 W% e5 g* c( r
# l7 ^3 \6 c, Y. u$ C8 rBut 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. $ o( k' z3 W7 _) D. p4 Y. C" h9 `; ?# Y8 J1 A) ~+ f% [: v7 d
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。 i1 q- `* m, R3 G# J4 l+ F1 S D( w, [/ `( j' t
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. ( w j7 r& ~9 {5 L/ A0 t4 x# q! L2 F9 _
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。 5 e( j9 X, ]0 e9 Y% T( y 5 ?1 @0 ]' g8 d5 w! ]- Y. ZYou 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. 6 j9 F1 c' [! R( j8 T- _; {1 k . J0 D1 l- x; q# ]0 K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。, \6 T, ~# _0 o& h& S
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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.7 c3 A1 [! o# d& ]& O# l
+ i% a, l# |# z- H2 ^7 |7 W你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 K2 r8 [. a" a5 X ( |$ {, T+ g, l, uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; C3 U7 v# K5 V' U# x
: _1 }, C. d' l, Q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。" W! S' A' o- n% |; K6 z
0 y- h" V7 s4 }6 @- `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. "- Q% l s6 V2 t# y5 A
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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。- }- J# n8 a* A# Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - N4 A9 |2 S. t8 K5 R ; k- X4 `7 n1 H9 a“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。+ j- `- B6 r" H" w7 K
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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."" R" `1 E0 d1 m: M6 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”。 ! `8 b0 d J8 L$ ~% k3 G" R( c. ?- Q7 h) q4 ~2 d
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