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3 x+ @, @3 p8 i$ b0 gOne 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.5 n- m, |$ C5 y3 {( l6 Q% r
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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”。' C/ I$ i2 a4 c3 n8 p% M
( U% W) S( l5 ~( oIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% C" N6 B6 ^5 h/ c; V* I
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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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% O6 k; o" V+ F* x% v5 lSome 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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M( {6 Y# e6 n' M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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6 `6 g; b& n- v7 M. p) L5 uA 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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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。/ w2 x# [/ S3 y' c* D ~
5 ^0 f* }2 q7 x3 XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% a: |8 N! x; W6 G/ t: K
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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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) z5 }8 Y$ t8 a$ _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.+ j" @% w" t& q; M- ~
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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。- M& M. l- Y9 z- U8 X1 x/ \
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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.& w8 ~; H, \. H! n+ {4 C: O
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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。
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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.
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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。
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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.
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% s5 c8 U6 y$ V5 g3 w9 Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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6 g7 e+ ` G' {& E2 ^8 ]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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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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& I# y2 C2 t3 w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。% V. w5 B- d2 m) Q) V$ V) I* X
& `- F& d$ ]* i* ]: q! U/ cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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5 d5 | G4 ? [. z' B“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. D) R+ J# `4 B/ R- g, r
4 w& k a* B; s, V. ?! N7 cLife. 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."1 w6 J% A# \" i3 ]& h: R
7 F/ g, P T" T) v# Y- ?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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