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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. ; h7 y5 b+ R4 V7 e# d6 I& D; ]" z T) K
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”。 / t6 k9 K/ C& f: v0 i6 d& z) N- ]8 m J
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ! _1 ?; x# u7 K0 W. p) J( [+ r# h0 a I d* {0 P& f# n& e
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。 ( J" S( [; p( A3 a0 @! w ! D/ H& J [, [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.4 g4 L- N2 l" Y) _1 I& z0 L* N
6 M% D, L) J+ |7 d- r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。% m9 T. C( n& _" {* l" e! u7 k; H( K) [
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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. 1 _8 Q- O, F; v4 D0 q 3 X# U7 l2 t4 @0 I' @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。" s0 d" y& [$ C$ a& S9 Q% t* m
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; i$ Q# {6 H: Z2 N1 W( W3 C$ ]
0 C9 Y; L/ Z$ ?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. ' q7 C% D6 M7 ]3 g8 B ; F% J: s% p5 E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。& p1 ] L& N3 b+ h
! h2 k) `* I4 W# B+ ^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.( L4 P# W; L& L0 Q+ }" B
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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。 ! K" e, ?: X2 x% L* S0 \# m* R9 S) P ; R* p1 ^/ g* M% G% nYou 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. - @ \2 Q! l+ B5 k, q
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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' s) C/ V) { W; ?
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* T' _& ?! Q/ [) k" J( Q( ^- `
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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. ": V2 a0 K/ j% q l
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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。 1 k4 h8 V2 z. d$ x$ b# H- Y. I3 c2 C2 D3 U* w3 q1 @
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 8 |. w6 f# Z2 e, {0 Z$ W% J% V3 m9 I/ b" U3 t: j8 W8 z$ t6 C, o
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 |8 g0 y% ]4 }
9 J, L5 S/ N! B" CLife. 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 b" Z& G) Q7 j! }
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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”。/ @( p }: k* [0 m- h
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