生命就是小甜品

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生命就是小甜饼：
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.

  l: o7 U9 e% a+ V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.

. p& B  q# q: x* m5 S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。

" `0 L* A+ y! ]6 e. e4 L  g7 rSome 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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6 F* d" p1 B$ k% D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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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.
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( W' E, p2 h( L8 f) G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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4 V4 g# ^3 E" HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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。
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1 |1 C" h8 Z- z3 F  c. x' NBut 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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8 P: j- {) r8 K# T* 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。

- d. i: ^, x$ G) h! c  kThe 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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/ Q' B- c6 o/ G( C# I2 W3 A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。

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.
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; w, S$ P5 Q* |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。

/ h6 ~" [; P1 R4 ]* `3 {7 l0 XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

! g# j# J) |$ K你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。

Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.

4 {1 H; e1 @+ Z  Q' N: Q6 U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。
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. w' l" _6 f( \; v) {" w  g( `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. "
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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。

, O; ?+ O7 X1 B( N& ?% ]7 M* oTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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9 m; L2 R( `9 ]7 P* ^" {, 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。

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."

2 W% S1 [9 e3 j% L# X2 E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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