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生命就是小甜饼：9 a% U( e; Y7 U- J/ I% i- S' M/ C
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.- T; i+ m+ f6 x( \
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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”。
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% {6 a8 g! I1 M6 HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 B) s7 p2 e7 S3 u! u
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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。( `1 ~' C5 S! E7 Z" }
. s- t, Q& M5 F, a9 U, nSome 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。( |- X3 k. G1 l# U1 ?( ~6 u7 b3 p
, `3 ?( a+ M7 |( m4 d! t' pA 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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% Q0 y, l" t, z1 q n: J: N" O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。9 u$ \* i; o! |6 C( ~* _$ Q
# {8 Q0 x* I8 B1 o( t, NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% F0 y, `* m" j! K S
) x3 H+ Q" J# Q$ F8 Z1 x @% \. q* q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。" P$ `1 X0 J6 ?! Q. \7 A1 j
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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.7 m5 y7 `4 m6 {) E
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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 d, p1 Y% v. p& P
: K# R! M3 O% H/ ~/ {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. ~! W. m6 a$ F: L, K* u0 R! A
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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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; U/ G1 v& ?0 K. P/ w4 N) PYou 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. 1 l$ c/ k6 g" N' @+ v% F
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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.* |% u; R9 R! B" f) ^: w
! y; N: p, \# K+ g, q r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
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8 j$ ]0 Q3 y; R2 N% s8 O. Z! dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) T3 m% S8 e' C# d+ g1 x
. N0 E5 Z5 Z8 p 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。
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9 n1 s# G1 V A; ^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. "7 i h3 Z: Y' g/ T2 J8 C$ D: [5 N
3 a" O# {& q+ [- {9 G( ^% f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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. d0 L) N7 P/ FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。9 c% J3 J# m9 s& E5 r: l( t
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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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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”。( r. w( d& q* p6 ^
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