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; H+ K y2 o8 s3 Y+ e生命就是小甜饼：0 m# |* n& @) w: b2 U5 X& m
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.0 I3 t: l6 f! A. r5 [% W
/ k+ r$ q1 x; z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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ E: o% o+ r* ^3 R
$ P+ u! y0 Y7 V8 C& @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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7 d) Q3 q0 u, t5 [! L# j2 ESome 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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; l8 A: Q# T; \4 x! P8 p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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2 O9 h7 B3 d3 C& K$ xA 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.0 ` T1 E' O l5 X( L
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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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3 B' {2 F, U1 N. _$ VWhen 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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2 {0 P9 v% I) n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.
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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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9 s, _" d4 A6 m% f) a" v+ A# J1 vThe 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.. F5 h4 M# \ j5 e, t% o( {+ N
d) r9 ]3 ~2 t; H j) G" C" c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。, K# \. O8 \2 x5 `' d
% G4 e( ~- B+ k% s& LYou 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. : @2 t3 D1 v6 t+ a3 o4 f
8 u& T1 k3 n! h, U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。* F+ W' Y! R8 R- @
- f) o% t. k$ pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* y* ^6 M* k% J5 z i
; r' ]8 F% L6 i& d1 I) S你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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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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; n) ~/ X- M& ]4 A, {; 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。4 k2 d! G& a* {
" C8 ]8 k! o' IFor 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. "4 R" W1 U+ p* l! t. Z8 X/ d
, B* Q4 P# [- l' d, X. W0 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。
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 m X1 h' f$ Y! V2 c, f7 r% @
/ p8 I) U7 _& D$ Q U“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* a# z, w& D3 |- Z
9 Y3 \" \# O9 a' ^) OLife. 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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+ P# O9 q q0 e% T$ i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”。/ T$ J v8 ^8 v* w! H3 H
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