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生命就是小甜饼：- T8 n. z& P+ y
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.$ F: v, c: O2 a
8 |" {1 V! d8 t: P, r8 n$ B; W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”。; |) v& E/ n: m+ Q& g# X
8 b4 ]6 ]( [ B* t( HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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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J% Z( w( ~0 f# \7 X sSome 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.2 g2 X$ F7 a+ [+ {
; n& z" a2 D/ w! D, G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。: F6 G \4 J" c2 w8 ~' D% L& h& v" A% G
! g" v \9 z9 W( _. T2 j9 iA 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。
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; h+ c$ a- S1 y! T" @$ mWhen 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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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.0 f8 n- x+ ^# [" Q1 c1 _' n$ T
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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。8 p) e" q1 C; c( H! a
v, j" h8 c0 {+ \/ [, V3 w4 I8 C" h( 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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1 C. L# m5 q1 X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. / x0 @! B# f: i/ G% I8 ?
4 C2 s# X3 B* W0 S! t9 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。) J" `- n: [- W0 N8 H+ C
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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.! B4 ~- S# D9 t7 I8 B3 h
& y( O4 {0 t1 u# L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.: ~& h8 b# t, J3 ~8 t+ G
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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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* G0 ~% B( z- Z. c9 {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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7 @. L" E! I6 X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 |. b# k: U' o* j( O/ f/ Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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) Y+ o2 [! M* 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。
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0 }$ B6 n) n3 [! U0 jLife. 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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