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生命就是小甜饼：0 J" M" W' ]6 V/ W+ q& w
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.* D8 |: F/ m* G9 f4 F& R% F
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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”。( N. [, `) ^" [( Y+ m
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* K, c1 y1 \) B1 M4 v+ w, T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。# f: C% A$ z. i. r% t1 w7 m
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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.
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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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' C# W6 s0 z9 B( A& 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.3 k( `9 T3 {8 K8 Y7 I
$ s$ J' |- \9 N5 b" V+ n+ s& [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。0 R1 I$ N2 P; x7 w' ]$ u' t! a9 b
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When 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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+ }1 ^; V# R/ g3 d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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) T6 I* K9 C5 Q S+ t- {; Y5 O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.9 R5 I4 B$ \5 B' N5 q* `* @
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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。# D2 o2 q+ \8 H% y* L
! Q8 n: o" R( S6 J9 r, y$ SYou 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. & C d9 m: f0 ?& k/ v- B
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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。- \6 ~7 X# r# t* U4 \7 e! d! {. y' s
# v# I* d! O) r4 N1 U5 XYou 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& Z8 R7 C/ c% L你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 l; T$ @! Q# E- W
3 a4 m9 X2 V' H& s! E- ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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. "3 k3 c# @ e' n
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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。
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/ n4 a7 \$ Z" T: {$ cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% j0 c: x5 e& d, ?/ H" I1 n% Z
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% f, w( u/ t8 W$ R0 W8 F
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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."2 J, O5 I" W7 | y T' w, O1 V
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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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