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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. " a0 @1 L! [+ O4 `2 r8 y, h* x* |7 q$ p+ r" }, p$ f
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”。 % l, s" p: z* c; h! l' p8 v/ I- L5 `; i4 F
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ c- y) J9 y6 G2 l, `4 k
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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。9 Y% i0 y6 @4 _- p
5 x7 z% x1 ~8 v+ C% F4 e: \' ySome 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. 1 C& b, ~: \5 { ( i) A& @5 u$ U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。 / M, @9 O M0 v$ t0 u B; B 0 w6 m2 s7 q! m7 Q; C. Z$ L& j7 dA 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.+ r- o2 i1 O* G" c* Q6 K" r% X3 }7 |
2 M: L8 f0 _( { J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。* p3 [- I& v# z. @% z) s- s
* l4 l6 G' F9 R4 eWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# G3 Z9 G7 v7 V* T
$ H$ ?' Z8 J7 ^: D' i8 L( k7 W1 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. 5 a% M D/ V' A* G9 m: u ) E1 ]; y- G( H1 @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。. W& c2 p$ _" f- Z; b6 d
( u6 u+ E. `$ F0 h* 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.- w7 \' ]0 O7 ^/ W+ r! c& d% A
' J1 ], {8 ]+ U' P9 [7 q& b( b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。% w7 q5 v5 G! X+ w
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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. ; U0 `3 D8 t$ h; ^3 H' h
9 u- W- _+ c2 K: w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。 , Q. B% _( L8 D" g, ]) x! t1 M' l' F( u" W9 B4 `6 |+ D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 7 z2 @- E' b4 m4 | $ E- z# u9 V2 q3 s( b; w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' x H& h) r" u! ]: }( p9 y& o! R3 t; ]1 w5 t" _8 {4 P3 R9 K- a
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) V$ J! R5 ~% e1 j; H2 S9 C
3 N7 n. m- b2 T6 a, q7 p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。 4 b, N5 D3 V" {6 z. y3 O3 j! `# l' i7 F
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. " % J. q6 P8 k% H2 }6 ? ; F1 P6 Y2 Z+ ?$ w4 \: g: ?7 }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。5 r2 i& ]) x8 e, P; p
& L6 `! Z2 I0 P- z" e: JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. & a# w. M/ d/ x+ |0 q9 H) |5 b$ L7 O+ U ]) @3 |, X- \
“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' S; j9 {1 @- M1 U D; V( d ( `0 J$ F6 y( p" Q1 N n; 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." 8 [* O+ F$ f. R# |5 a 2 W1 h2 e& B0 i6 c' c' p6 s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”。6 w' R2 q; T- ?) _& B T. x3 _
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