- L& P( x) ?* b3 H8 k: Y; s生命就是小甜饼： 5 o2 c/ x9 m5 C8 V* 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. ' x& [, i5 q! F0 X$ E! h& }/ T- a+ J- T% |
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( \/ f7 a: }" ?+ R' R 9 A/ k" f+ A* b' b) C2 mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 F1 b. | I! Z4 P C( T
. S3 V' r5 m6 B9 Q% B. z. ]' F& R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。; h4 @2 V4 T0 [& Z: o
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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.5 E+ g F# B5 i% @
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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。& r. F7 ^% v. ~5 h$ f
6 q- ?4 m8 r4 w4 S: G/ {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. 7 L# Q7 N0 `2 S+ O3 k( k7 Z4 a( L/ ]# i5 y/ h# P
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。( c; M, L3 s& h. t2 |
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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. 2 r& R8 J3 X$ i7 F/ x2 ?$ x/ Z0 f0 d2 E. u2 E1 p/ X9 i
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。 ( {- c) k/ @7 N8 @/ J + o. F# t0 O) c L5 _* l) t4 p! DBut 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.' u# G4 `' K0 u* y1 G8 a6 X9 u
- q" j, A6 X5 |& V7 E6 N: o/ d# 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。- L. F7 @& C- q
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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. ( h, m! s. m5 |6 g5 e4 X 5 G) U U' L; x1 K. r/ `! |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。 ) s- ]9 `/ h2 I' @, e: f4 M1 \/ S- @+ M* E' }. L7 o4 m r
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. : G% a; ?. W7 f* s9 W$ t! `
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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。# m# Q1 _: W/ S4 @9 v* X
% x8 B K2 b5 p* @5 }. y* w; jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# f" E5 F+ d6 M) X
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$ s2 Q! ?1 H8 }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 q- b9 u! D4 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。4 k- b2 v/ U" B- l6 r
: w; \2 W$ i+ e ?* wFor 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. " ' y' ]# v) S" {3 \, A/ `; K1 {& Y+ _: L! H2 L8 l
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; j& N8 I3 p/ ~& d& ?3 e" l! a6 y. O3 A8 {" O+ o4 _
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." w( y1 Y& B7 q* o( O t3 I
" j$ D/ b- ?% h“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 . `/ Y- C) b. ^% q* d9 K$ I5 o% z0 e6 i7 F
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." 5 G! g K$ A) T1 y3 y, g* L; f+ d4 ~& x/ U
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”。 & j7 g5 i8 u* S: V. A8 K& C$ W8 j
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