生命就是小甜品

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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.

* Q5 I8 c; q; M/ [) D" ]% Z' w+ p1 w& e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”。

( A% }5 ^" i! H5 X! ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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8 t! }' O; [' |4 O  k" ?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。

8 s+ Z  M; K% L7 G: H" C- N% ISome 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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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。

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 K0 |# }" x. `. E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。

! b  T6 c  G% z8 _5 z0 U" l# iWhen 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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, E& j. |0 L/ t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。

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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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.

8 u. a/ W6 h: Z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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# X4 u0 l) J' B+ [* ?0 ~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。

You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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' u. u8 e5 A  F9 t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.

  B# x* J1 t: i5 @4 Q, E2 p# X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。

: p" B  k/ F# O1 rFor 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. "

. A: b9 K! |7 d6 K7 K, K/ i$ \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 d1 ?8 P- N% }) ^+ v$ BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

" N8 N- M4 A! U) k6 h! W* s" p“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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3 c- @1 m! `! d/ _: Y% V( ELife. 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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