生命就是小甜品

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+ t5 X6 t" r1 X5 z* x! B1 XOne 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.

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”。

If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.

* @6 Q' z: [% E" N0 x! V; @) 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。
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$ S' Z0 D4 d* o  ?( FSome 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.
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2 y! t- p8 h) b& V9 @: 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。
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" H6 N- \1 B1 P" ~% q4 ?' y% A( n  `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.

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。
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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.

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。

9 e2 [! k* |" p1 j5 }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.
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  j5 m: f- }6 X- @# Q. v! F3 O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。
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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.
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4 j' x! @0 ~$ ^# D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。

( o5 \& q$ o1 ?" f5 h8 h* ]" 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.
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- m0 C+ ^3 }" J( t( {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。

; S6 a4 h5 i8 q' ]You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

; Q; K0 O# `1 C/ \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。

/ D) A+ t) [3 q5 L. k8 wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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 a4 B) s# D/ {7 jFor 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. "
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4 E6 u; o3 R' F" T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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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! [$ u* `7 q9 i8 y) q  m' Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。
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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."
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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”。
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