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) M* ]. f; |" |1 o, M" G生命就是小甜饼：9 o6 m1 z9 H3 C. ~9 U
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. B; F& a) ]8 X
4 t9 p5 a, p0 c1 e, C. {8 w) 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”。
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5 M( t9 p, @( p0 {! Y0 Q+ nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 b6 V! g; X n4 L+ d
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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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4 n3 [* K8 A3 J+ N* R4 }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.& z- G; R$ Y3 e/ C; _1 L3 R
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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。
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0 [% ^% X. f4 J. X" x- o0 eA 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.2 F8 y( h4 ~# {" D0 `
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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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* \5 Y# R/ {4 IWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 a0 f4 O* J% Q: Z4 M3 r& l
1 a" J* I C" I$ N3 N- G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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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.# M& |; q4 R% Q) K) O2 j: U7 G" l
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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.
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. i0 o$ X2 f; A4 p6 h8 B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。+ e9 e7 r! {- |/ L
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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. : q8 X6 q1 f$ P4 @0 |8 W
1 i2 \" J9 C- t0 Y# W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。: x/ @2 m5 ~8 |9 o8 \
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 N4 s. Q @. `2 P6 _0 H
" u" k# N7 s( v你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 X) f* h: w0 b, `+ s- d
1 c' [4 z% K1 o; jHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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8 N) _* e+ j0 Q) l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。' G% w; j: t1 \. @. W) \% a
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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. ") x$ [, p+ A8 b! K1 j5 e
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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。8 C2 N( j6 K# l1 T
; ~. ~# b( L" zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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! z! Z5 D: ?! D9 e* |7 i. q“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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: z3 K4 ]' X; _- s9 w, a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”。3 L1 t w# c* Z! x9 d% k8 B6 a8 `' ?
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